Yes. That was very sweet of her to stick up for her friends Too bad she wasn't bothered about the whole sciencey aspect!So basically Rona Moss-Morris decided to say some nice things about her colleagues study.
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Yes. That was very sweet of her to stick up for her friends Too bad she wasn't bothered about the whole sciencey aspect!So basically Rona Moss-Morris decided to say some nice things about her colleagues study.
Or the patients.Too bad she wasn't bothered about the whole sciencey aspect!
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge.
If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge.
The villainy you teach me I will execute—and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Declared interests
Prof. Rona Moss-Morris: “Two authors of this study, Trudie Chalder and Kimberley Goldsmith, are colleagues of mine at King’s College London. I work with Trudie on other CFS work and with Kimberley on different work. I published a small study on GET in 2005. I am a National Advisor for NHS England for improving access to psychological therapies for long-term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms. Peter White (another author of the present study) is Chair of trial steering committee for an HTA NIHR-funded RCT I am working on with people with irritable bowel syndrome.”
Fair enough but lets back up a few steps here. How about you don't make dodgy science claims in your studies in the first place? Then perhaps the media might not be quite so confused about what your message is.When scientific evidence is misrepresented in the news, experts can set the record straight. 'For the record'pieces have responded to articles making dodgy science claims, ranging from junk food causing allergies, magnets easing the symptoms of menopause or that perfume can make your unborn baby infertile. - See more at: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/for_the_record.php#sthash.abMNbyrD.dpuf
I wonder if the BPS folk have become so frantic that they are now shooting themselves in the foot. They put out a press release, which was taken up and happily supported by the press who apparently wanted to help the BPS cause. But instead of thanking the press for the support, the BPS folk are now blaming the press for the misinformation they themselves disseminated. That cannot be making friends in the media. The media just got shot in the back by someone they were supporting. Not a good idea to shoot the media when your campaign is all about propaganda and misinformation. The press may find itself more willing to believe our stories about BPS lies and abuse, and more interested into digging deeper into what the BPS crowd is up to.How could all those journalists have got the same incorrect interpretation after reading the same press release?
Its clearly revealed that many so-called experts do not know how to spot even basic flaws in scientific papers. There is also the worry that if they let this slide, what else did they let slide? How much bad science has a free pass?They now sound like complete idiots.
What? Experts from (gasp!) Oxford don't know how to spot the most basic flaws in scientific papers -- things that undergraduates at non-elistist universities could easily recognize? Tell me it isn't so!Its clearly revealed that many so-called experts do not know how to spot even basic flaws in scientific papers. There is also the worry that if they let this slide, what else did they let slide? How much bad science has a free pass?
Are they mutually exclusive?Which is it, folks -- scientifically ignorant or morally corrupt?