HOW MUCH DOES A SILLY TRIAL COST????

I just had another look at the BMJ rapid responses, to finally use them on my BLOG. But again something cropped up.

I was reading Tom Kindlon’s last response and amongst other things he wrote about the PACE trial, you know the one where we know the outcome that CBT is best, the only thing that needs doing is writing up the report.

And as I said before, people WITH SEVERE ME are not allowed entrance, because we can’t do their 6 minute walking test. So they don’t want people where it is CLEAR they actually HAVE ME.

I read somewhere that this silly trial was costing either one or one and a half million pounds. Tom however, who is very well informed, wrote that it is costing OVER THREE MILLION POUNDS in taxpayers money.

Now I’m not so good with pounds, so I used a currency converter. It works out that this equates to MORE THAN SEVEN million Australian dollars.

So not only are we wasting money on SILLINESS, it is actually a whole shipload. And remember, all the girls and boys on the leader board of this trial are CBT BLOKEYS. Worse, the TOP DOG was at that MALINGERING conference.

Now you all know, I liked Oxford and Mr Morse, BUT my affection for this beautiful city took a dive when I got ME and discovered that the CBT BLOKEYS had hijacked not only ME but also OXFORD.

However, I have just had some help from Mr Oxford himself and all is fine again. He supplies a NICE and FREE online dictionary and I thought, let me see what they say about malingering. And do you know what it actually means???

“FEIGN illness in order to escape duty or work.”

And those BLOKEYS are conducting this SEVEN MILLION DOLLAR so called trial. Are we NUTS?????

So my brain is feigning problems with for example information processing, my hypersensitivity to noise is not there, the excruciating pains in my legs, that prevent me from walking, are not there etc.

After this NONSENSE I was desperate for some cheering up. Luckily I have started REAL therapy for ME. I am calling it CBT, Cool Blogging Therapy. It is cheap, free actually thanks to Mr Google and his boys. And it actually works.

Instead of being called a liar, a malingerer and other NICENESS, I have received so many great emails etc that I can’t thank you all enough. I also received an email, and I want to share that with you, as I needed the cheering up after the SEVEN MILLION DOLLAR FIASCO. John Martin wrote the following, thanks John.

“Living in London in the Kingdom that is United around the church of CBT I must congratulate you on your homeopathic laughter treatment.

While it is obviously too early to say if this offers a complete cure I'm sure a two day study carried out by a stand up comedian paid handsomely by ourselves would stand a good chance of getting the results we seek.

I personally favour gradual laughter therapy which involves letting patients gradually read longer and longer passages from the biopsychosocial model.

I am not a doctor but feel overexposure to this material at an early stage could damage muscles deconditioned through a fear of avoiding laughter inducing situations.

It's all very complicated doctor but I think you might be on to something. Hope your new practise continues to thrive."

Now I do have a tiny problem with the word homeopathic, however John mailed me the following as well, so who am I to complain:

“Laughter is a powerful but completely safe treatment proved by RCT's (Randomised Controlled Trials) and available at your laughter clinics throughout the Kingdom that is United around the church of CBT.

If I happen to try it and die that wouldn't really be funny but you would bare no responsibility whatsoever.”

Now I think a better way of spending the SEVEN MILLION, would be to use a small amount on buying laptops for people with ME, so they could start my CBT, Cool Blogging Therapy, FREE of Charge, as that is how much Mr Google charges. And use the rest of the SEVEN MILLION for proper research.

Dr Shepherd, the medical advisor of the MEassociation, wrote in his rapid response that 12-16 sessions of silly CBT will cost "well over £1500."

And for that MONEY, you can buy a real NICE laptop, and keep some spare money for a printer, paper, repairs etc. And then you can actually start my CBT, COOL BLOGGING THERAPY. Recommended by NICE.

I have now published more than thirty articles about MY REAL CBT therapy, all different by the way, and I have gathered so much evidence that it works, it is just amazing.

The other thing is, my articles are peer-reviewed, contrary to those written by the CBT BLOKEYS.

But that is just a MINOR DETAIL, I fully agree.