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Always good to see someone who wants to bring to light the issues around research integrity. Two things though: It seemed to me there was a veiled accusation against open access. It could just be that the opinion was that the publishing incentive/financing needs fixing but there was no real...

Just IMO, I don't think we are dealing with rational thinking or behaviour from the people who still insist on spouting nonsense on this subject. There is ample opportunity and means to properly evaluate and understand this issue around what PwME are saying regarding the PACE trial and their...

How convenient to not have any knowledge with which to assess the PACE trial while calling for more of the same.

Or it could also be looked at in another way. My being ill with ME, considering the symptoms I experience as a result--they affect the way I respond to stress. In other words, to put it differently--if I were not sick with this my response to stress would be very different as a healthy person.

I fail to understand why physical attendance at the school is so necessary. Wouldn't it be more productive to have a distance learning package that can be delivered by internet. There are already a number of children who use this (at least here in Canada and I would imagine elsewhere). And...

Yes, agreed. My statement suggested that the author has some control but I agree this is usually not the case. I'd still like to fathom why editors need to be so economical with being precise. As I said, it amounts to being careless and demeaning about the whole group of people they're...

Link to the NPR story on the Nature paper here

Good to see a reasonable article on ME. Why the title though? After all all the way through the article they use the term ME. Strange. Also, now that there seems to be reporting from Canada I am wondering where does a journalist go to get their info for an article. Any insights anyone? The...

Just as a guide, here is a link to previous winners: https://rhdaction.org/news/health-stories-focus-lancet-highlights-2018-photography-competition-open-submissions

Also, this was originally reviewed in 2013. There was an update. Thus the current date.

Also, shame on the funders. Crohn's and Colitis Canada.

I think Cochrane urgently need an intervention. Addiction to magic?

Well that's disheartening. Yes, AfME have changed. The past is the past. I didn't find any of the current criticisms of AfME here on this thread to be mean spirited. On the other hand I think the criticisms weren't beating around the bush either. AfME is a charity; with a mission...

I anticipate them having a lovely time in Chile. I expect the whole point of the exercise (conference) is merely to write off the expense of a nice travel destination . As for learning anything useful on the subject of developing robust protocols for the type of 'evidence' we're used to being...

Thanks for the effort Barry. At the moment I can't get PDF's to appear either though. I am saving toward getting a new MAC, hopefully some time in the new year this all won't be an issue.

I can't see the tweet this is based on but based on Barry's comment it would seem that this group of strategies has been around a while and is just now being put out there. The irony of this is that the problem the strategies address is of their own making (SMC). When it suits them they are...

For anyone who is in the same position as me and only gets a blue bird silhouette instead of a tweet message: https://www.massmecfs.org/news/30-news/730-annual-event-10-26-2019-dr-michael-vanelzakker Dr. VanElzakker will discuss some challenges and opportunities in using brain scans to study...

That link seems to be broken for me.

Scanning this made me realise just how depressing (in the colloquial sense) it is to view a steady diet of the pure theoretical bullshit that is the BPS 'research'. It's refreshing beyond words to view research that actually seeks to truly solve a health issue. This is clearly actual science...

Not exactly new news but I was using some Turmeric today and was reminded that I had read about contamination previously. And because I consider this issue larger than just Turmeric. I call it the lamppost problem. We are bombarded with 'good news' info on so many ingested substances that...