Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on Long-Covid, ME/CFS and MUS
…The PACE trial, whose first results were published in 2011 in The Lancet, was essentially a “proof-of-concept” study for the expansion of IAPT. The trial purported to prove that CBT…
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Trial By Error: Thoughts on The Observer, The Guardian, and Paradigm Shift
…to change has not been an individual writer or an individual news article or news organization. And it hasn’t been the PACE trial on its own. If that were the…
Trial By Error: BMJ Pushes Back Against New NICE Draft
…position expressed is an interesting one: Non-pharmacological treatments for “complex conditions” cannot be adequately measured by randomized trials, according to the two authors. It is, of course, noteworthy that The…
Trial By Error: Tack’s Take on 2020 Studies; Professor Edwards’ Statement to NICE
…was pleased he invited me to collaborate on a paper called “Bias caused by reliance on patient-reported outcome measures in non-blinded randomized trials: an in-depth look at exercise therapy for…
Trial By Error: More on that WSJ Opinion Piece; and Q-and-A with Author of this Week’s WSJ Rebuttal
…patients were used.) In laying out his case, Devine chose to link to the PACE trial as the epitome of medical wisdom on the issue of the purported psychogenic origins…
Trial By Error: More on the Lightning Process and the Science Media Centre’s Collusion With UK Journalists
…author Professor Michael Sharpe as a scientific martyr bravely confronting harassment from patients–and from me. Both articles failed to explore the scientific questions surrounding the PACE trial and the possibility…