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PACE contains multitudes, like the Bible. No other evidence or references required. It is Truth incarnate.

I have updated the post with a link to Lucibee's analysis. Thanks!

well, I kind of disagree with myself as well. I just didn't want to spend time repeating the same things I've written 500 times. I assumed commenters would take on the task. I'd just rather spend time clipping my toenails or watching milk sour or something else.

Actually, I see the point. But they probably would be nervous about the prospect I'd tear up more papers from distinguished BPS people! And it might be hard to say, We'd like you to talk as long as you don't tear up PACE or Esther's papers.

Ha! Well I won't be holding my breath for that invitation!

At this point I'm hoping to go, yeah.

I think you misunderstand my last point. If you don't look at the objective results but you extend the feasibility trial based solely on feasibility considerations, can you extend it into a full trial, in your view?

Chris Ponting has made it clear to me that, unlike in previous years, I am welcome to attend. My presence last year obviously was not encouraged or desired! After sending another letter to the CMRC board last week to let them know about the open letter to The Lancet and BMJ's ongoing refusal to...

@Jonathan Edwards I guess my assumption in making the point was that the goal of a feasibility trial is to check the feasibility, and the choice about whether to continue it would be based on feasibility considerations, not on the outcomes or results. But thinking it through further after my...

@Jonathan Edwards I am not convinced of this point. If they leave everything as is, the only choices are to not extend the trial or to extend it with the exact same form/methodology/outcomes etc. Better to do a new full trial if resources allow. But I have less problems than you do with the idea...

I think people should probably retire this particular accusation against Sharpe. I obviously hold no brief for the good professor and have no particular reason to defend him. But in this case, the quote in full context is actually somewhat sympathetic to the plight of the patients, in my...

I don't think extending a feasibility trial into a full trial is a problem per se--the problem in SMILE was that the two-person subcommittee responding to the request to extend it also allowed Professor Crawley to swap primary sound secondary outcome measures at the same time--a move virtually...

@Esther12 and @Alvin I think there is room for both approaches. All movements have those more moderate and working sometimes from the inside, and those who are more aggressive and shout from the outside. I think in general both are needed for progress. I don't think Lubet's post is actually...

So Carol Monaghan has agreed to add her name to the open letter to The Lancet. She suggested asking the others who also signed the early day motion. I see there are quite a few. Are e-mails of MP standardized? Or is there a list of all MP e-mail addresses somewhere? Thanks!

@Trish good point, I'll send him that review. I'm not sure he's seen it.

Yes I would also love to see the briefing.

I don't know much about parliamentary decorum, but it seems to me that when you have conducted yourself in such an inappropriate manner that multiple MPs and a government minister call you out publicly and demand an apology, you have likely damaged your credibility and effectiveness as an...

I don't think this is exactly right. They're claiming that even if they could get a statistician, which they obviously could, they shouldn't be required to go beyond what other departments would have to in order to comply, and most government units would presumably not have extra statisticians...

That's an interesting question that we hadn't really thought about. For credibility the letter was written for "experts" and "professionals" (doctors, lawyers) but I would think for these purposes being an MP and I guess a government official would qualify as being an "expert." I can touch base...

I should say that I'm pretty sure I've used the phrase "false illness beliefs" at some point but NOT as a direct quote from the PACE authors. I have used it as an objective description of the theory they have promulgated. It is clear from everything they have written that the theory at its core...