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…that anything I have written is inaccurate or in error, and that Professor Crawley has still not taken me up on my offers to correct any mistakes and post her…

…and information bias, he said. I am hard-pressed to recall a precedent for such an approach in other therapeutic trials. Under the circumstances, an independent review of the trial conducted…

…over the PACE trial, the document notes more than once that the investigators themselves have responded to criticisms, citing the FAQ on the trial website and other publications. The surveillance…

…trial of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome, published recently in The Lancet. That is not the case. The patients in this trial had a disabling chronic illness in which fatigue…

…the first place. (In contrast, it is possible to obtain viable data from open-label trials that include objective outcomes, and from blinded trials with subjective outcomes.) ***** Despite these flaws,…

…Cochrane’s Common Mental Disorders group. Last month, The Times and The BMJ covered the growing international concerns about the PACE trial. Both publications ran articles about Virology Blog’s most recent…