NIH Takes a Step Back: Asks ME/CFS Denier to Speak on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The NIH laid a huge egg when someone invited Edward Shorter, a Toronto psychiatrist who makes Simon Wessely look like an angel, to speak on ME/CFS. Shorter not only denies the disease exists but calls ME/CFS patients “groaning victims” and belittles their...
Taking Stock: the NIH and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
The NIH should be releasing it’s increased funding for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) soon. As we wait for that let’s take a look at several things that have happened in the last month and assess where we are, and what we have learned. The first thing...
Timely MillionsMisssing Protest Demands Funding For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
“We are going to ramp this up.” Francis Collins Should you attend the MillionsMissing protest for more funding? Consider this. It’s been almost a year since NIH Director Francis Collin’s pledge to greatly expand chronic fatigue syndrome...
Data analysis Puts PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Trial on Slippery Slope to Retraction
The issue at stake was a big one. It asked whether changes to the original protocol of the PACE trial ended up stacking the deck. It was easy to see how they might have; some of the recovery criteria were so weird as to seem ridiculous. The changes in the studies...
The Lancet Flubs PACE Letter: Exposes Journal to Ridicule
“…science has taken a turn towards darkness” Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet The latest PACE controversy started with a simple invitation from Richard Horton, the editor of The Lancet – to 42 signers of a letter requesting that an...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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