Trial By Error: With Trump Out, Can GET/CBT Be Next?
…treatments for the illness variously known as ME, CFS, ME/CFS, and other iterations. The research they present to defend their bogus claims is riddled with flaws that their colleagues…
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Trial By Error: Update on BMJ’s CBT-Music Therapy Study (h/t Steinkopf and Tack)
…the primary outcome measures (approximately 2000 steps per day). The authors justified this by saying that since “CBT alone is documented to have a moderate effect size in CFS/ME, only…
Trial By Error: Lightning Process Star Complains About NICE; Struthers Nudges Cochrane to Keep Up
…opinion piece blasting the new evidence-based guidelines for ME/CFS from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). I assume she is not just upset that the document bars…
Trial By Error: A Letter to Occupational Medicine From Brian Hughes & Me About Prof Chalder’s Latest Disaster
…that Studies into CFS have placed little emphasis on occupational outcomes, including return to work after illness. However, they conspicuously fail to mention the PACE trial, a high-profile large-scale British…
Trial By Error: Usual Suspects Say NICE Made Eight Errors; Nonsense, Says Committee Member Adam Lowe
…CFS/ME, even though the guideline and government agencies in the UK now call the illness ME/CFS. This decision is silly and childish–it makes the authors look out-of-step and clueless.) Variations…
Trial By Error: What is Recovery Norway’s Role in the JAMA Network Open Study of Long Covid in Young People?
…Recovery Norway, which identifies its members as “people who have experienced recovery from ME/CFS or similar illnesses.” (I learned about this connection on twitter; here’s a particularly blunt riposte to…