The influence of the Cochrane review on GET

An inevitably depressing thread. We need a post that links to all the the good Cochrane posts @Michiel Tack has been doing!

 

Thanks @Cheshire

I hope the situation in France will improve, it sounds awfull.

 

Wasn't sure where else to put this but I got it from a Google alert. A "lifestyle blog for healthcare professionals". In the category of "a little knowledge is dangerous", this is a good one. It looks like a content farm, though, not a serious publication.

Ironically, one of the linked papers literally shows the opposite, that "CFS" patients are different from sedentary controls, and as such are in fact not merely sedentary, which is literally the assumption behind the Cochrane review on exercise and the point that is awkwardly attempted to be made here. Impressive circular logic mixed with intellectual laziness.

Of course on PubMed no notice of the issues, review and editor notes of the past year or so. The damage continues because relevant information is not properly propagated. Scientific publication needs serious reform, it's embarrassing that there is no tracking of changes and update alerts. Also noticed the title of the review: "Tired of being inactive". What kind of nonsense is that? Cochrane is seriously very bad at their thing.

https://www.mdlinx.com/physiciansense/heres-why-youre-always-tired-even-though-youre-healthy/

 

Does that blog merely demonstrate what was always said = that CFS was intended to include those whose complaint was TATT?

 

I'm pretty sure it's just a content mill. One study is from 2011 and the Cochrane review is the 2016 version. Though it's not as if laziness like that was not common in real MD's and it's pretty much run-of-the-mill BPS.

But it did make its way to be relevant on Google and it reinforces misinformation, with Cochrane at fault in some ways.

 

Yeah those are always cringeworthy. I remember a few old Wessely articles about ME and other older articles about similar psychosomatic ideas, how they are the talk of the town and how culture affects them because everyone is talking about them. All because the people around them are all involved in the same field. Literally "people are saying" because it is their own field of interest and they interact mainly with like-minded colleagues. Solipsists make very louzy physicians.

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1307465757136125952

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https://twitter.com/WorldEBHC/status/1307465757136125952

If they also accept stories of bad impact due to failure to analyze the quality of evidence?

 

I can’t remember whether this information re: HANDI guidelines is new or not

 

also posted here
https://www.s4me.info/threads/indep...d-by-hilda-bastian.13645/page-115#post-472561