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Nice! Another journal should be publishing a similar correction soon, also with Professor David as senior author.

I haven't read the paper. Are the researchers seeking to expose this sort of priming as a concern?

Maybe that Crawley study was criticized because it violated multiple rules of scientific research?

this was a huge problem in the CBT study she published last fall with Sir Simon.

No, the Highlights "correction" was in the GETSET paper. I included a separate item about the GET safety paper. That hasn't been corrected. I've revised the blog headline to make clear there are two separate items there.

yes, the CODES trial. I wrote a few posts about it: https://www.virology.ws/2020/06/11/trial-by-error-a-kings-college-london-press-release-hides-the-bad-news/

was this because of her public tweets about this issue?

Actually, the decision by the ethics committee in Norway against the proposed LP study there basically referenced this sort of bias as a reason for rejecting the study. This describes the bias in a nutshell. "NEM believes that the method poses a risk that the intervention may affect the...

It's very irritating that Sharpe still does this and keeps repeating the same criticisms of others over and over again. And yet in Fiona Lowenstein's recent Guardian column, she referred to PACE as a "now-discredited study." I've referred to PACE as "now-discredited" previously in a number of...

I like this. Or maybe "treatment-induced cognitive bias"

I haven't read all the posts in this thread so someone might have focused on this point already. In addition to encouraging people to re-interpret their symptoms, part of the influencing involves telling participants that the approach is evidence-based and/or already shown to work in previous...

But NEM firmly defends its decision. It seems like a done deal now.

I noted that sentence in particular. I haven't seen the evidence that this is what happens, nor does she provide it. What is this claim based on besides unproven assumptions?

It's not odd at all. Many medical journals have beefed up news and other non-peer-reviewed sections on their sites that do not need to be written by doctors and specialists. BMJ.com has done this for years. The journals have either free-lance or contract or staff journalists to write these...

No, I never heard back from her. It is an interesting turn-around, although whether it is apparent or actual is hard to assess. It would help if she explained her perspective on her past efforts, like the METRIC program someone alluded to.

I hadn't come across this. it's an infomercial i guess

I have been repeatedly described this way--including in a BMJ news article. With my academic credentials omitted.

What student wouldn't benefit from such mentorship?

Yes, but the investigators only interpreted the expectations before people started the interventions, so they conveniently didn't include that the interventions themselves incorporated encouragement of positive expectations.