Pain researchers lose three papers after Cochrane group questioned data, Retraction Watch

Two interesting parts in the article above:

“extremely large effect sizes at both short and long-term follow up, (which is something that is really not common in the field of chronic pain and certainly not seen in other trials of CBT),” — Neil O’Connell, coordinating editor for the Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care group

“Because both the [European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (EJPRM)] editors and the authors of the study were Italian and in the field of physical and rehabilitation medicine, the editors decided to appoint an International Review Commission (IRC) with a non-Italian majority.”

Alrhough the IRC was an undertaking of the EJPRM, it would be interesting to see Cochrane exclude UK authors from the review on exercise for CFS since most trials of GET/CBT took place in the UK and Cochrane is a UK-based group. They did not include any Norwegian author, though (the 2017/9 review was led by L. Larun).

 

Just for info, I searched the NICE website for the name Monticone. It doesn't appear.

 

https://www.s4me.info/threads/cochr...2020-c-de-c-williams-et-al.17212/#post-291109

@Caroline Struthers

 

Amateurs. They're supposed to call their critics dangerous activists and reject the premise that they did anything wrong while working to get them fired behind the scenes. At least that's the standard now.

 

Aha, memories of the 'Driven By Italians' spoof ad.
But there, but for the Grace of God, go all of us.
There are some great Italians (although I do sometimes wonder about governance).