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@Esther12, you always bring joy to the party. :)

No worries. I think in general it's best not to do it, and I've stopped.

My point was more that kd's points are the exact same as Sharpe's, so they might as well be the same person. I actually assume kd is someone else. I like how Sharpe still tweets at me, as if he hadn't blocked me.

I still don't get what they think they gain by posting such a lame editor's note. they can't possibly think it takes them off the hook.

That would be clearer, but he is an editor at one of the journals of BMJ, the company. So technically I guess it's accurate to call him a BMJ editor, but he's not an editor at the flagship journal, The BMJ.

I've tried to be very clear and specific and to keep repeating over and over again the very obvious problems with these studies, without making overly broad or ad hominem accusations. I think I'm making progress in denting the implacable resistance to acknowledging any problems--at BMJ if not...

yes what's that about?

Well if they could actually refute anything, that would help. but since they can't and they just remain silent or post opaque editor's notes that are content-less, they end up looking like losers. (I hope, anyway.) I don't think there is a shortage of people to whom I can write letters, nor a...

My guess is that the trial will ultimately be withdraw because of the technical methodological shenanigans. These were serious violations and would or should doom any study. I think that will make it easier to get traction on the serious and very legitimate questions raised about the LP itself...

Thanks. That should probably be 100 experts/academics and one countess. I wasn't sure where to put Margaret Mar. She's not considered an MP. I figured I could put her in the "expert" category for her professional policy-making role on House of Lords.

This is completely true. However, I'm a pragmatist and believe in pressing where you can get the most traction. The methodological flaws are egregious and should doom the study before even having to think about the ethics of the LP itself. Pointing out these flaws also makes it clear that the...

I don't know. Mary was working with the organizations. I assume we didn't know about them--there seem to be a lot of organizations that were not on our master list. sure, contact them, or have them contact me. We can update or repost as needed, I guess, if we get more names.

Why are editors now being maligned as an entire category?

Wow, Michael Sharpe has blocked me but is still tweeting at me. I haven't blocked him because I don't want to bother--he's free to see my tweets and I'll probably tweet my response anyway. I thought he had learned his lesson about tweeting. Poor guy. The intervention has failed.

That's very true, of course. But one big reason they don't have informed consent, per Helsinki, is that they did not disclose their links with insurance companies and government agencies. Helsinki's version in effect at the time mandated disclosure to prospective subjects of "any possible...

In terms of accusing people of being militants...If you disagree, you're obviously a militant and potentially dangerous. When I went to see Professor Crawley speak at Exeter last November, she told me that either she had consulted the police about me or had been told to consult the police about...

It all makes much more sense in the original Romanian, I'm sure. It's just a bad translation!

That's how I read it--the "by" was a typo--it should have been "but." In other words, the patient activists reject it, but most patients are not activists and they accept the validity of the treatments.

I think most people would maybe get that its a reference to "Waiting for Godot"

I didn't understand this at all. Why make things up?