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  1. JemPD

    The Sugar Conspiracy (The Guardian) "scientific inquiry prone to the eternal rules of human social life"

    Wow! when you read this it's like time travelling into the future & reading an article about ME. Tell me this series of quotes doesnt read exactly like the story of ME/PACE etc.. I cant read any more right now, but yikes, if the answer to the problem is for younger researchers to...
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    Positive Psychology; Positive Thinking

    Times article "Positive thinking is the best way to get a grip" https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/why-positive-thinking-is-the-best-way-to-get-a-grip-h97dqfhnj Paywalled but if you 'join' you get 2 free articles a month Well Duh! How do they get funding for this bull?! Those who...
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    Cochrane Survey: Provide feedback on Cochrane’s Policy on Conflicts of Interest

    yes thats a good point. certainly a reason for it not to be an official S4ME thing. thank you for your insight @Jonathan Edwards
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    Cochrane Survey: Provide feedback on Cochrane’s Policy on Conflicts of Interest

    It's great to ask people to fill in the survey but not everyone will understand the questions or the implications of them, I think it'd be great if we could release some kind of 'guide', - not telling people what to say but explaining the issues related to each question. I'm thinking something...
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    Cochrane Survey: Provide feedback on Cochrane’s Policy on Conflicts of Interest

    Yes but how does one include that in policy across the board when an evaluation of the evidence in order to determine what 'misrepresenting' it might be, is what Cochrane are supposed to be doing. I'm too foggy to articulate well, but its surely got to be everyone on both sides of an argument...
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    Cochrane Survey: Provide feedback on Cochrane’s Policy on Conflicts of Interest

    @Jonathan Edwards & indeed any other more knowledgeable members can you please clarify the finer points on this question...? Its obvious to me that PIs of trials investigating the intervention being reviewd should not be allowed to author reviews as they are essentially marking their own...
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    Persistent fatigue induced by interferon-alpha: A novel, inflammation-based, proxy model of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2018, Pariante et al

    my emphasis ahhh now i see why there was all the SMC hype & spin - so they can use this study to appear to add weight to their hypothesis that it starts off with an organic problem but is them perpetuated by the cycle of abnormal beliefs>misinterpretation of normal bodily sensation>too much...
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    ‘It’s the unknown’ – understanding anxiety: from the perspective of people with multiple sclerosis (2018) Chalder et al

    :D @rvallee sometimes, you express what i am sort of thinking but cannot articulate, in such an eloquent, razor sharp & amusing way... it makes me very happy :) thank you
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    Persistent fatigue induced by interferon-alpha: A novel, inflammation-based, proxy model of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2018, Pariante et al

    I've not managed to read much of this thread am in a bad patch atm, so this may well have been extensively discussed & i got no strength to go through it, apologies if im bringing up 'old news'. But i just needed to say that the whole SMC media spin on this is beyond bizarre. what on earth is...
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    Review: CFS book by Nick Duerden

    Great review Trish! yes, that was my first thought too. I wouldnt be at all surprised if that is the entire issue with it
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    Patients’ hopes for recovery from myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS): Toward a ‘recovery in’ framework. (2018) Jason

    I was so irritated that i dashed off that reply without reading the thread.... Precisely Why are psychologists seemingly so obtuse about this
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    Patients’ hopes for recovery from myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS): Toward a ‘recovery in’ framework. (2018) Jason

    my emphasis. I admire Jason, but he doesn't seem to be very savvy to the BPS twisting juggernaut... it'd be better if it said without relapse, rather than without fear of it, since i'm pretty certain that's what they meant. Really... because i use all the coping strategies out there (to my...
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    Erythrocyte Deformability As a Potential Biomarker for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Davis et al (2018)

    How exciting Jonathan, it's somewhere i have always wanted to go, those boabab trees look amazing. LOL i had thought it was likely absence due to expert witnessing to a certain committee you're going to be doing :cautious:, thought perhaps you'd been staying away for some wise-but-unknown-to-me...
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    PPS new name for MUS - Integrated Care for People with Persistent Physical Symptoms 02/10/2018

    :D thank you for that much needed giggle @rvallee Exactly. War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength
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    Livestream of David Tuller - The PACE Trial: A "Thing of Beauty" or Pile of Crap?

    this is awesome @dave30th ! I wish we could read the slides. Be great to be able to see them. At the beginning the fisrt slide was clear - "stupefying paradox" - what a superlative term! :)
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    Cochrane's plans to update its COI policy

    Well spotted @JohnTheJack Dear me.... Sharpe's use of 'equipoise' .... :sick: pompous much?
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    Erythrocyte Deformability As a Potential Biomarker for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Davis et al (2018)

    well you took the words out of my mouth there @Russell Fleming I must say i am missing @Jonathan Edwards' input on these things. (assuming i understand why he's not around but i still miss his input :confused:)
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