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  1. Jonathan Edwards

    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    But that is not what the German text says. Moreover, my discussions with old colleagues about this when I presented the 'Horrors of PACE' some years back, and also chit-chat over the years, makes it clear to me that cynicism and hypocrisy spill over any half-coherent theorising. The shift of the...
  2. Jonathan Edwards

    UK NICE 2021 ME/CFS Guideline, published 29th October - post-publication discussion

    One comes to understand how lucky PWME were to have Ilora Finlay involved: See the account of her attempt to provide shelter for a Ukrainian family...
  3. Jonathan Edwards

    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    Sorry @MSEsperanza, but I am now confused as to who is making these comments in response to what? I have lost the plot.
  4. Jonathan Edwards

    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    Good questions. And, as an addendum to my post #187, which might seem not quite to fit with what the BPS view is supposed to be, a further thought. I didn't go in to psychiatry, not because the patients did not desperately need help, but because I got the impression that the health...
  5. Jonathan Edwards

    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    But surely this is not what the claim refers to. If tinnitus is less intrusive it is less intrusive. There is no need to learn to rate it as such. It just is. Tinnitus is an error of acoustic nerve feedback. Distraction, and the best form is hearing aids, abolishes the tinnitus, it doesn't just...
  6. Jonathan Edwards

    News from Germany

    I wondered who still used a typewriter.
  7. Jonathan Edwards

    Neuropathology and virus in brain of SARS-CoV-2 infected non-human primates, 2022, Rutkai et al

    And of course passing the same virus through another non-human host is an ideal way to create new variants that might be 100 times more lethal. ... Long time passing. When will they ever learn, When will they ever learn?
  8. Jonathan Edwards

    American College of Rheumatology. Preliminary definition of improvement in rheumatoid arthritis, 1995, Felson et al.

    I am not sure that there is much literature on this. it is just common sense, and the committees that right about scoring systems tend not to get involved in common sense. I don't think it is widely accepted that it is OK to use lower standards - the double-think ensures that those involved...
  9. Jonathan Edwards

    Neuropathology and virus in brain of SARS-CoV-2 infected non-human primates, 2022, Rutkai et al

    Perhaps further evidence to support the hypothesis that playing with viruses in labs with poor safety standards is not such a good idea.
  10. Jonathan Edwards

    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    This statement is preposterous. How does learning to rate your symptoms as less provide any genuine relief? Basically they are saying that if you can brainwash patients to say what you want them to say that is all that matters. This isn't even based on the idea that if the patient believes they...
  11. Jonathan Edwards

    Nutrition and Rheumatoid Arthritis Onset: A Prospective Analysis Using the UK Biobank,2022, Camillia Barbero Mazzucca et al

    The most likely explanation to me is that there still aren't that many rheumatologists in rural Scotland and Wales so fewer people get diagnosed. A high proportion of RA is quite mild and very easily missed by GPs following dumb protocols.
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