Berkeley's lecturer in public health: Bizarre PACE trial response

By David Tuller, lecturer in public health and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley:

They have recently argued, in response to Wilshire et al, that it doesn't matter that some participants were recovered on the physical function or the fatigue outcomes at baseline because there were other recovery criteria. This is truly a bizarre response for researchers to make. It is also a serious violation of the rules of honest scientific inquiry. It is unclear to me why we all have to waste so much intellectual time and energy simply to demonstrate that studies in which participants can be disabled and recovered simultaneously on key indicators should never have been published and, once published, need to be retracted immediately. The PACE authors have no scientific ground to stand on.

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LSE: The medical and psychiatric establishment has to admit and apologise for abusing ME/CFS patients

LSE: The medical and psychiatric establishment has to admit and apologise for abusing ME/CFS patients

  LSE, 21 November 2016:

  "the psychiatrisation of conditions like Myalgic Encephalopathy/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) where organic and physical conditions become ‘all in the mind’. Here, whilst there is a complex inter-relationship between the mind and body, psychiatric reductionism has resulted in a catalogue of instances of maltreatment, neglect and abuse."  

  "The medical and psychiatric establishment has yet to come clean, admit to or apologise for these abuses."

 

Bogus FITNET trial is a GET trial in disguise being tested on children who don't have #MEcfs

Bogus FITNET trial is a GET trial in disguise being tested on children who don't have #MEcfs

FITNET trial is an unblinded trial (not a RCT) using subjective outcomes which uses their own "ME/CFS" criteria so that they can select patients who do not have the disease but then label them as if they do ...

Which is not surprising as Crawley, Bleijenberg and Knoop are involved who make Diederik Stapel look like an honest man. Pinocchio research from Britain and Holland. And the medical councils are still hibernating.

If you want to make yourself sick have a look at their protocol but make sure that you've got a bucket ready or better still ask your GP for an antiemetic before you read it. You will need it.

Ester Crawley given a million pounds to replicate FITNET's NULL effect

Ester Crawley given a million pounds to replicate FITNET's NULL effect

http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/projects/hta/14192109

Ester Crawley's Study will be based on the following Dutch study also called FITNET which ignored their own NULL effect just like the PACE trial did.

Because it's obviously more important to make sure that people who are severely ill do not get proper treatment and to make sure that their kingdom which is based on fake tan doesn't come tumbling down. The Sad State of Affair of greed and denial medicine ...

  Nijhof SL, Priesterbach LP, Uiterwaal CS, Bleijenberg G, Kimpen JL, van de Putte EM, Internet-based therapy for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: long-term follow-up. Pediatrics. 2013 Jun;131(6):e1788-95. doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-2007. Epub 2013 May 13.

  ( Bleijenberg G aka the Dutch Peter D White or Simon Wessely and van de Putte EM aka the Dutch Ester Crawley)

  "Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is known to be an effective treatment of adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), but its availability is limited." No it's not known to be effective but they want us to believe it is effective which is a totally different thing ... The reality is, as a recent review of the PACE trial showed, that CBT and GET are totally useless !!! But the BIG LIE must obviously continue ...

  "Fatigue in Teenagers on the Internet (FITNET), an Internet-based CBT program for adolescents with CFS, has been developed as an alternative to face-to-face CBT. Recently, its short-term effectiveness has been proven in a randomized clinical trial. Here we aimed to assess the long-term outcome of CFS in adolescents after FITNET treatment and after usual care."

  "Conclusion: The short-term effectiveness of Internet-based CBT on adolescent CFS is maintained at LTFU. At LTFU, usual care led to similar recovery rates, although these rates were achieved at a slower pace."

  "At LTFU, usual care led to similar recovery rates" aka as a NULL effect ...

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23669515