Trial By Error: Norway’s Double Whammy of Fuzzy Science
…trial, or whether this was intended as a fully powered trial. Throughout, I think this needs to be clarified for the reader and interpretations/conclusions drawn in light of what the…
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Trial By Error: Trio of Trials Shows Limits of CBT for Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Lancet Psychiatry recently published the results of a high-profile trial of cognitive behavior therapy as a treatment for so-called dissociative seizures, also known as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. The trial, nicknamed…
Trial By Error: My Letters to Psychosomatics Journal About Prof White’s Misleading GETSET Paper
…syndrome: Long term follow up and cost-effectiveness following the GETSET trial.” Professor Peter White, a member of the journal’s advisory board, is the senior author. In this clinical trial, the investigators…
Trial By Error: When Primary Outcomes Yield Null Results in Clinical Trials, FND Experts Prefer Their Secondary Outcomes
…of functional neurological disorder (FND). In an impressive display of dishonesty, the press release from the lead university—King’s College London—touted the trial as a success. The release buried the bad…
Trial By Error: Neurology Journal Fixes False Claim in MUS Paper–But Fails to Publish a Correction Notice (Ironically, I Have Added a Correction to the Post!)
…and/or updated it sooner. Dr Villemarette-Pittman had responded on behalf of the journal to my initial e-mail about the error, so I assumed she understood the practices and policies around…
Trial By Error: A Crowdfunding Wrap-Up
…April crowdfunding on Berkeley’s in-house platform. The university received 1025 donations totally $103,283 for “Trial By Error.” Of those donations, the most–384–came from the UK. That was more than twice…