Trial By Error: BJGP Correction Coming, BMJ Still Stonewalls
…half of the participants before trial registration, swapped outcomes based on the early results, and then wrote up the paper as if it were a prospective trial with pre-selected outcome…
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Trial By Error: Professor Chew-Graham’s Apparent Shift in Position on GET/CBT
…author of METRIC, an online medical training program that promotes the effectiveness of the CBT/GET treatment paradigm. Since METRIC is based on the discredited PACE trial and its smaller “sister…
Trial By Error: Recent News Articles Highlight Post-Exertional Malaise
…medical and historical background, including a mention of the debunking of the PACE trial. And I was also pleased to see that the article included this passage: “Any activity, even…
Trial By Error: More on that New York Magazine Piece Pushing Psychogenic View of ME/CFS and Long Covid
…in a twitter thread to the article’s misrepresentations of my criticisms about the PACE trial. The journalist, a science writer named Jeff Wise, didn’t interview me. But he did interview…
Trial By Error: Action For ME Report on NICE Guidelines; Brian Hughes on Myths About the Guidelines; Michael Sharpe’s San Francisco Speech
…Michael Sharpe, co-lead investigator of the discredited and arguably fraudulent PACE trial—the ur-trial for the misguided psycho-behavioral treatment approach to ME/CFS. As with other research into CBT and GET, NICE’s…
Trial By Error: Dutch Team Offers “Dog-Ate-My-Data” Excuses for Not Reporting Null Objective Findings
…of a Randomized Controlled Trial.” The study, nicknamed ReCOVer amd conducted in the Netherlands, purported to provide the “first evidence for the positive effect of CBT in patients with severe…