Complementary and alternative healthcare use by participants in the PACE trial of treatments for CFS

[Asa]

For what it's worth, both the Journal of Psychosomatic Research and The Lancet are owned by Elsevier. From wikipedia: "In 2015, Elsevier reported a profit margin of approximately 37% on revenues of £2.070billion.Elsevier's high profit margins, and especially its copyright practices have subjected it to heavy criticism by researchers..."

Also here's a link to JPR's editors and board... http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-psychosomatic-research/editorial-board

Sharpe, Wessely, White are all listed as on the Journal of Psychosomatic Research advisory board.

 

[JohnCB]

Sharpe, Wessely, White are all listed as on the Journal of Psychosomatic Research advisory board.

And White PD is one of the authors. I wonder which two did the peer review?

 

[Woolie]

I'd be interested in knowing how they justified splitting CAM from CBT/GET/APT.

Yea, I love how they think they're so much better than CAM. Is this because the evidence supporting CBT/GET is so much stronger than for CAM? Or because they are "proper" researchers, part of the establishment, so therefore automatically above CAM?

I'm not much of a CAM user myself, but I find it completely hypocrticial that researchers like these - who look for support for their own beliefs rather than actually putting them to the test - should look down their noses at CAM.