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@mango I’m sorry but I don’t understand the issue here. It might be my ignorance of the topic? I’ll try to adresss some of the things that I suspect you might perceive as an issue, based on my experience from Norway. Apologies if I’m mistaken. Why is it bad that they are going to remove...

This part always gets me. I’m glad her daughter is doing better, but I’m so tired of the gaslighting..

Transcription (in the section below) of a podcast(?) where she talks about Huntington’s disease. Line breaks added. Huntington’s disease (HD) is often described as a combination of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS. It has a diagnosed prevalence of <0.01 %. I’ve been close to 5 people with HD...

Unfortunately, most master theses amount to nothing. I studied economics, and we never learned to judge the quality of a paper. We only learned how to cite them. That might be an issue with economics, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it applies to other fields.

No wonder it has been targeted by the BPS crowd.

I did a 3 hr neuropsychological assessment less than a year after I got sick. None of the results were below any of the thresholds. I tried to tell him that my head doesn’t work like it used to, but the neuropsych was adamant that I could not have had any loss of cognitive function. It did not...

For some reason I’ve always connected the word ‘sleuth’ with ‘sloth’. Not being a native speaker probably contributes to the confusion!

The burden of proof to convict would probably have to be quite high, so you’d end up with many ‘false, but legal’ papers. I’m not sure if that’s a problem.

The main point of posting this article here was the difference between the retraction rates and the suspected rate of falsified papers. 0.2 % suggests that less than 1 in 10 of falsified papers gets retracted.

The US retracts papers at a lower rate than most. I doubt it’s because they are much more honest in their research.

This might be of interest: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00455-y Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.

A Medium post by the lead author from April 2022. My bolding. ———— Seeking participation from both unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals worldwide with or without COVID and/or adverse events for a study approved by institutional review board. COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has...

Wouldn’t Fukuda (CDC-1994) overestimates the prevalence?

It says so in the description:

I looked at the first two pages and there are some issues with the questions. It asks you how many hours you work per week, and the lowest option is 1-10. But the intro says you can participate if you left work within the last 12 months, so you should be able to answer 0.

Cochrane might have a net negative score..

I wonder what being right-handed has to do with anything - why would they report this? And is it normal to exclude women that menstruate during the MRI scanning?

It might be that their research position is at the BPS section. I found this ‘research group’ for Behaviour Medicine which is a part of the Institute for Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska headed by Rikard Wicksell - a psychiatrist with a thing for ACT. He was involved in Jonsjö’s research on...

Does this mean the Infectious Diseases sort under Behavioural Medicine? Or that this particular position does? Based on the qualifications, it seems like an oncologist could sort under Behavioural Medicine. Which could imply that Infectious Disease does as well. This website from Karolinska...

Good points!