Trial By Error: NICE’s Upcoming Draft Guidance on ME/CFS
…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, has been demolished,…
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Trial By Error: My Predictions for NICE ME/CFS Guidance, Reprise
…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,…
Trial By Error: We Asked BMJ to Correct a Paper; BMJ Requested a Rapid Response; We Have Declined
…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…
Trial By Error: Maeve Boothby O’Neill Inquest Highlights Major Systemic Failures at UK’s National Health Service and in Medical Education
…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…
Trial By Error: More on the BMJ Opinion Piece from the Psychobabblers
…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…
Trial By Error: A (Satirical) Field Guide to Conducting Biopsychosocial Research in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME)
…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…