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Yup. At some point I hope this will all come back to bite those who have abetted this crap. I'm lucky that Berkeley has shown that it actually does try to maintain some standards when it comes to academic freedom, even for non-tenured academic personnel like me. Perhaps that allegiance to...

Right, and don't forget that the Vice Chancellor of Bristol University has also complained directly to the Chancellor at UC Berkeley in order to stop my work exposing Professor Crawley. More than once.

Has anyone read Simon's book? Does it say that people can be "recovered" and "disabled" on measures simultaneously and it doesn't matter? Thanks for posting his tweets here, since he blocked me a couple of years ago.

Godwin has expressed his opinion about the study. He's been honest and straightforward. That's fantastic! For myself, I don't have an interest in pressing him to assess the intentions or motivations of those who conducted the trial.

Hi, @Awol I'm wondering if you can explain what this sentence means? How has he been "played" (and by whom?) and what relationship does it have to your discussion with someone at CMRC? Thanks!

"Godwin's law of Hitler analogies" is pretty well-known. That's why Wessely referenced him I guess--because someone had tweeted about "banality of evil," which became the introduction of the Hitler analogy into the conversation.

Thanks, that's helpful. So part of the success of this depends on how many MPs decide to spend their time to attend? Or is the main goal really to put sound bites and memes into public circulation via media exposure?

Can someone explain the process here to non-UK people? I thought last week Monaghan was just getting signers for a motion, and suddenly a debate got scheduled. How did that happen so quickly? And then there are Westminster debates vs. House of Commons debates and the difference is...? And this...

@Lucibee is right, he's not questioning Carolyn's motives but her questioning of the PACE authors' motives. Why he is choosing to engage is another question. I would agree with him that Nazi comparisons are virtually never appropriate or apt. However, this hypersensitive soul is the same guy who...

I'm a bit confused about the asterisk next to CFS, IBS and MUS on p. 11 in the list of conditions covered. The asterisk is defined as the following: "IAPT services are only expected to treat these conditions if they have developed an IAPT-LTC pathway and have staff who have received training in...

This analysis was published earlier this year in Journal of Health Psychology: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Michael+scott+IAPT It found a 9% "recovery" rate from IAPT services rather than the close to 50% being claimed.

@Alvin I guess that's for the lawyers to figure out. There are probably different legal thresholds required in different countries for filing class action lawsuits, for example, to have a possibility of prevailing. In this case, on the part of the journals, it is clearly willful ignorance or worse.

@Stewart Thanks I tend to get UK formalities wrong.

I didn't know when I sent my note to her that she was making an appeal today...

I've been arguing in favor of "one of the biggest medical scandals of the millennium" rather than just the 21st century.

@alex3619 Where did you come up with the number 37 in terms of the issues in PACE? Is that an actual list? Would love to see it. I've never tried to count because so many of them are interlinked or embedded in each other. I think the use of the statistical method for normally distributed...

There are lots of reasons to be concerned about the SMILE study, starting with the LP itself. However, it turned out that you don't even need to criticize the LP itself in order to show that the study is bogus. Just pointing out these flaws should be enough in any normal circumstances for a full...

One of my favorites for "PACE Lexicon" is "pre-specified," which turns to to mean: "after all data collection but before we claim to have looked at any data, so even though it's an open label trial with subjective outcomes we can pretend to have no idea that we got bad results, and Cochrane...

Professor Sharpe avoids all direct questions with counter-questions or pseudo-responses. Classic strategy. Poor guy. He's seems seriously misguided or perhaps even deluded. Someone should stage an intervention before he causes himself even more rhetorical damage.

Curiouser and curiouser