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He makes positive use of selection bias.

Yes. I think it may all be a result of hysteria. Or perhaps it is the correlative in doctors of what Abnormal Illness Behaviour is supposed to be in patients. Perhaps it's Abnormal Medical Behaviour.

Well you cannot take too many precautions to protect the crockery. No expense should be spared.

One of the standards and values of Reuters' journalistic code is "Always strive for balance and freedom from bias". It would be an almost unprecedented coincidence if this story was not coordinated to be synchronous with publication of the new Sharpe et al paper. This seems to provide prima...

It would be a sad condemnation of psychiatrists if they were unable to distinguish problematic behaviours from normal responses and react appropriately to each. What could be the possible point of them. I am sure that most have no difficulty in this regard and do valuable work with those who...

One has to wonder how far up the management chain decisions about this reached. The new paper seems to be dated 12th March, the article was Wednesday so that was 13th March. Is there no thought of reputation for independence and the dangers of appearing to be just an arm of a particular...

Even so, this does feel different. It is as though they are all just going through the motions. It is hard to discern any strategic purpose or any clear understanding of how any such purpose, had there been one, might best have been put into effect. One has to wonder whether they were overtaken...

Well...yes....up to a point. Evidence is selected and presented in particular ways, and factors relating to the person doing the selecting or presenting affect the choices made. It is therefor necessary to know what factors might be influencing those choices to determine the weight to be given...

This was a reference to the fact that Kelland is a modern languages, rather than science, graduate. Given the failure to interview a certain scientist about the issue this might be significant.

I think it is disgraceful journalism to give such prominence to the comments by Paul and Anton in ways which seem to suggest that they are much worse than they are. It is all reminiscent of the graphics for the Hanlon article-making words seem to say things which they did not. Do the words...

Looks like the NYP cannot afford @dave30th 's fee for his image rights. He must drive a hard bargain.

Does anyone else suspect that strong editorial control may have prevented publication of the report that some might have wished for?

My heart bleeds for these poor researchers. I have recently been looking into the comments in the David, Wessely, Pelosi paper from 1988 when it was suggested, by these relatively inexperienced registrars, that it was unhelpful for doctors suffering from the illness to be involved in researching...

I am not sure that a graduate in Russian and German would be in a position to give a helpful response to such a question.

Bristol and Bath.

The silence from or about the south west is deafening. Was there an unwillingness to conform to the SMC manoeuvring? Let us hope that it is an indication of something.

I see we are going to have to keep an eye on @dave30th to ensure that he does not sneak any "literary" allusions past us.

Sorry. Its a reference to this letter from Hughson confirming that Parish suffered from ME https://www.bmj.com/content/296/6628/1067.4

That Worcester ME Group information is interesting. However I am not quite sure about the Post Script. Wessely did publish an article in February 1987 but it is not primarily about ME. He started, as did McEvedy, with an interest in mass hysteria. Reference is made to the Royal Free outbreak...

Some of the expenses would also be interesting. What is the cost of the Geneva adventure?