…no scientific justification, and there are legitimate reasons to think it causes more harm than good. The credibility of the crown jewel of the evidence base, the five-million-pound PACE trial,…
…published last month. The study, called Clinical effectiveness 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…
…terrific case study of truly awful and anti-scientific research practices. (I wrote a 15,000 expose of the PACE trial in 2015.) Given the PACE trial’s worldwide impact on the provision…
…Crawley has since retired from the university and from medical practice, for reasons that have not been publicly explained. No great loss!) That clinical trial, published in 2018 in BMJ’s…
…provides aspiring biopsychosocial (BPS) researchers with practical instructions for conducting successful trials in CFS/ME. Firstly, we outline the foundational principles of the BPS model, whose cutting-edge theoretical elegance is rivalled…
…ME/CFS and the curative powers of cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy. Let’s take a quick look at yet another Dutch study of CBT for adolescents, a 2004 trial…
