…papers in which participants were recruited before trial registration. 3) The investigators swapped primary and secondary outcomes based on the data provided by these 56 participants recruited before trial registration,…
…paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome: randomised controlled trial.” I have previously posted six letters, here and here. Below are five more. They were e-mailed directly to Dr Godlee and cc’d to…
…correct a major factual error in a BMJ Open paper involving another clinical trial under their direction. That correction occurred after I had pointed out that the paper’s first paragraph…
…was based on the discredited PACE trial and a related effort called the FINE trial. PACE was a methodological and ethical disaster, and FINE produced null results for its primary…
…of an online supervised group physical and mental health rehabilitation programme for adults with post-covid-19 condition (REGAIN study): multicentre randomised controlled trial,” claimed that the intervention under investigation had been shown…
…mandates that scientists disclose “institutional affiliations” and “any possible conflicts of interest” to prospective trial participants as part of the process of obtaining informed consent. The investigators promised in their…
