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This is indeed an interesting result. :geek::nerd::bookworm:

The BPS club know exactly what they are doing. They are trying to delay and block, wear us down, and then claim things have moved on since NICE, IOM, etc, that they now have new research since then that backs their position and which needs to be taken into account. Blah blah blah. Throw in...

That is going to be a major issue, I think: How PEM is defined and assessed. I seriously doubt new patients in particular are going to have enough experience of PEM to understand the question, and the potential implications for their health care. And that will be ruthlessly exploited by the...

...perceived health parameters do not detect differences, when objective neuroimmunoendocrine parameters related to stress, inflammation, pain, and fatigue are used,... In other words, the measures of subjective perception were, once again, falsified. They cannot be relied on to deliver a...

I fear that research is all going to lumped under 'fatigue' and its consequences. Getting ME renamed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was one of the greatest propaganda coups of all time, and a complete disaster for patients. It is likely to take decades to unravel and correct, depending on how well...

Did they control for the fact that worse physical health causes worse psychological health?

"Precision Psychiatry" :facepalm:

Made some patients report feeling a little better emotionally, with no meaningful impact on any other measure, no specific relationship to the condition being studied, and the result being very plausibly explained entirely by known generic non-therapeutic confounders in this type of research...

I copied this from somewhere, don't remember where: Type I errors (false positives) = reporting an effect that doesn't exist. Type II errors (false negatives) = failing to report an effect that does exist. Specificity is the measure of the rate of Type I errors. Sensitivity is the measure of...

And highly intrusive.

Yeah, I want to know this too.

This Australian is recently updated for Covid and flu, and continuing to mask when out. :thumbup:

In fairness, at the practical clinical level there is not much more they can do. But it is a serious limitation.

This is good to hear. Hope it continues improving for our friends in Europe. :hug:

Overall, the findings were promising but further research is needed to understand if these improvements remain longer-term. After thirty-five years of dominance the psycho-behavioural approach has yet to deliver anything more than 'promising findings that need further research (funds)'. Enough...

Infantilising micro-management.

When your only tool is a hammer...

Thanks for this, @ME/CFS Skeptic. One point: Don't know about the Norwegian trial, but in PACE the version they used was not pacing as generally understood and used by the patient community. It isn't a useful result in either direction. I think we can. Any further indulgence in this kind of...

Preventing researchers and clinicians from preying upon desperate patients is one of the main reasons ethics committees came into being in the first damn place. :mad: