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They will have their own COI in many cases. I suspect the possibility for a snazzy headline trumps many of the more rational but mundane reasons for not publishing.

They just might be heading for extradition.

Even the most objective, rational and honest people should not be reviewing their own studies ... just ridiculous. A crucial aspect of any review is that it be impartial and independent. No matter who you are, biases will creep in even if unaware of them. It's why software engineers have their...

I think that for the PACE authors and their ilk, the sh*t has now just about reached the fan.

Excellent! Well done :).

No I didn't. But "yup" is also how some such folk tend to pronounce "yep", the common English corruption of "yes".

That in itself is a very interesting possibility. It would be absurdly and sadly ironic if some of the MUS diagnoses are indirectly caused by GPs themselves. It makes you wonder if some other MUS diagnoses might also be due to something as silly and obvious as medication side effects going...

Following on from my previous post, but preferring to not edit it: We know that ME afflicts more women than men, but do we know if this statistic is still true for non-parent populations? Just wondering, because it is invariably the mum who becomes the full-time parent, and as long working...

Yes, Ron is clearly referring to major physical stress events here. Maybe there are some people for whom major emotional stresses also correlate with physical stresses ... who knows? If you took two identical people, and one was subjected to much more emotional stress than the other, would they...

Yes, and it's possible ME might not have appeared on their radar were it not for Carol Monaghan's recent parliamentary debates. Progress feeds progress :).

It is tentatively very encouraging that the three studies that have investigated cell/mitochondria energy handling, all seem to show ME/CFS impacting ability to produce and/or utilise energy effectively. Is it that the food energy is not being converted as it should be? Or maybe it is being...

CBT is good and fine where a person's problems relate to faulty cognitions that lead to faulty behaviour. It goes horribly wrong when applied to a person whose problems are nothing to do with faulty cognitions, let alone faulty behaviour. It's not the CBT itself that is wrong, but its...

Good. A lot of people will read it then. Mostly men probably, but it all helps ME to become part of everyday discussions, with a more balanced perspective.

A deliberate part of the strategy I would think. Given that treatments were all driven towards modifying participants' subjectivity, and outcomes were measured subjectively, I'm sure they wanted to discourage people doing anything that might influence their perceptions. Another way of looking at...

A pity that Hilda Bastion's blog includes @Action for M.E.'s description of pacing, with its disastrously misleading final sentence: [My emphasis] It's good, until the last sentence, which then completely unravels any sense they know what they are talking about. The innocently uninformed will...

Absolutely. The crucial thing is for more people to become increasingly aware of the reality of ME/CFS, and the surreality of PACE etc. It would be extremely unrealistic to expect most people to understand the fine detail ... and the point is they do not need to! We are getting to the point...

From @Goblinf's comments posted by @Sly Saint: ... good grief! Spot on.

Yes, obviously we focus - rightly so - on the absurdities of much of BPS-driven ME/CFS pseudo science, but I would be amazed if biomedical research is not also prone to dodgy practices.

Definitely true. Something needs to change so the value of all useful contributions to the sum total of knowledge can be properly recognised. Discovering that something does not show significant effect is often extremely useful. It's so fundamental.

The first thing anyone absolutely has to establish is what may or not be true. Something popping up on social media could be a bit suspect!