New paper from the Netherlands: the treatment of CFS

[JaimeS]

They don't want the patient to get better, they want the CBT to look better on paper.

Exactly. If the 'objective' response is a survey, all they need is something that will convince people to write something different on the survey.

How, exactly, are surveys objective evidence in the first place? Well, but that's another argument entirely.

-J

 

[Mark]

They talk about the partner's perception of severity, but do they make any attempt to assess actual severity and see whether it's consonant with the partner's perception? If not, they miss out the possibility that the correlating factors they find are actually consequences of disease severity. Which would be really dumb.

 

[JaimeS]

They talk about the partner's perception of severity, but do they make any attempt to assess actual severity and see whether it's consonant with the partner's perception? If not, they miss out the possibility that the correlating factors they find are actually consequences of disease severity. Which would be really dumb.

...and therefore completely in line with their usual 'logic'!