Is XMRV a laboratory contaminant?
Since the first observations that the human retrovirus XMRV is associated with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), new studies have been carried out to determine the role of…
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Trial By Error: How Bristol Investigators Avoided Ethical Review
…the title of the research project associated with the application was: “What happens to children with CFS/ME? The study of a longitudinal cohort of children who access a paediatric CFS/ME…
Trial By Error: The 2018 PACE Reanalysis and the SMC’s Expert Appraisals
…added to [specialist medical care] to moderately improve outcomes for chronic fatigue syndrome [CFS, or M.E./CFS].” Now Wilshire and coauthors report on a new analysis of the PACE trial’s data….
Trial By Error: Two Letters to Dagbladet About Its ME Coverage
…no personal or professional interest in CFS/ME but have been asked by a number of bodies internationally to advise on CFS/ME research, including the UK NICE guidelines committee. In my…
Trial By Error: More Science-as-Promotion from the GET Campaigners
…publishing one shoddy paper after another. This stream of sewage has seemed intended to influence the new ME/CFS clinical guidelines that Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)…
Trial By Error: Dutch CBT Trial Targets “Dysfunctional Beliefs About Fatigue” in Long Covid Patients
…illness. That has been the standard assumption about people with ME, CFS or ME/CFS for decades. Certainly the PACE trial and others have shown that cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and…