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    Who said: don't bother testing patients?

    Sorry @JaimeS I know this is off topic but it is an issue worth clearing up, and I do not wish to initiate broader discussion. In the chapter Social History of a 20th Century Illness in the book Chronic Fatigue and its Syndromes by Wessely Hotopf and Sharpe, the authors appear to display their...
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    Who said: don't bother testing patients?

    I think AM was associated with the MEA by 1987. I had a feeling that there was something in SW's book that made me think it was her. I will look.
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    Who said: don't bother testing patients?

    Given that the paper was dated March 1988 , did CS publish anything before that date? I would have thought not. Would it have been Dr Anne Mcintyre?
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    Government and Insurance companies - establishing the BPS model

    Strange that they may not have considered the effect that regular payments from UNUM or Swiss Re might have on ones propensity to hold particular beliefs. This does tend to support the view that what they were all engaged in was religion rather than science.
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    Royal College of Surgeons blog: Are surgeons missing the major differential diagnosis that is more common than multiple sclerosis and HIV combined?

    It doesn't say much for all these surgeons. After all, within a year of moving into the field Wessely published saying that it was time for a new approach. And within a further year was publishing the treatment protocol. What are the chances of that? It must all be very obvious for those with...
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    Royal College of Surgeons blog: Are surgeons missing the major differential diagnosis that is more common than multiple sclerosis and HIV combined?

    I had that message and immediately tried again, and it appeared normally.
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    Trial By Error: Letters to Fiona Godlee and Nigel Hawkes

    I know this is a bit late. That's the speed my brain works at. The creatures of the knight.
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    The replication crisis is killing psychologists’ theory of how the body influences the mind (Olivia Goldhill)

    It requires considerable skill to build a pyramid and balance it all on that "it is plausible that....".
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    Trial By Error: Professor Sharpe’s Retraction Requests

    Are we sure that they believe that viruses cause colds and not that colds are the result of some psychoneuroimmunological process resulting in the symptoms which we see?
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    Trial By Error: Letters to Fiona Godlee and Nigel Hawkes

    It is perhaps worth recalling that this is not the first occasion on which difficulties have arisen, or should have arisen, over BMJ editing of a piece by Nigel Hawkes. The links to the 2011 article are posted above. However these do not disclose the full absurdity. Here is the critical...
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    Intimidation of PACE critics or critics of other Psychosocial research

    One can see why they needed to set up the SMC to correct false impressions and independence of mind.
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    Skin crawling/formication

    Other abnormal cutaneous sensations experienced included a feeling as of trickles of cold water running over various parts of the skin, and a feeling of insects crawling under the skin. The latter type of sensation was experienced in a few cases only and was limited to the arms and legs. Four...
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    Caroline Struthers' correspondence and blog on the Cochrane Review: 'Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome, 2017 and 2019, Larun et al.

    Principles. They died long ago.
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    Trial By Error: Letters to Fiona Godlee and Nigel Hawkes

    GETIES?
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    Trial By Error: Letters to Fiona Godlee and Nigel Hawkes

    For anyone wishing to remind themselves of Nigel Hawkes' "previous" this is the link to his 2011 paywalled article www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d3780 Nigel Hawkes reports how threats to researchers from activists in the CFS/ME community are stifling research into the condition There are jobs...
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    Trial By Error: Re-visiting My Questions for PACE Professors

    I have mentioned before that I have wondered about SW's reading comprehension since coming across his comment that he agreed with Jenkins that the most reasonable explanation was that the majority of the Royal Free cases were a hysterical reaction to a small number of polio cases among the...
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    Harvard's "med" and "ed" is an actual disgrace

    I have always assumed that Eisenberg and Kleinman must have been major influences on what was thought at Harvard. It is difficult to see how their influence would have been benign.
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    My Label and Me: I’m not tired and lazy, I have ME

    If he thinks it is a neurological condition, but is starting a course of treatment at King's, one wonders whether they have shared with him their views as to the "perpetuating" factors. Still, I suppose he has given informed consent.
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    My Label and Me: I’m not tired and lazy, I have ME

    Give credit where it is due. His blog post does seem to be called "It's all about M.E" which might imply that the observations ae not thought to be generalisable.
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    Does Positive Thinking in Pregnancy Boost Children's Maths Skills?

    …..but does it help with negative numbers?
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