AndyPR
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If your doctor diagnoses you with chronic fatigue syndrome, you’ll probably get two pieces of advice: Go to a psychotherapist and get some exercise. Your doctor might tell you that either of those treatments will give you a 60 percent chance of getting better and a 20 percent chance of recovering outright. After all, that’s what researchers concluded in a 2011 study published in the prestigious medical journal the Lancet, along with later analyses.
Problem is, the study was bad science.
And we’re now finding out exactly how bad.
https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/21/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-pace-trial/
Wide-ranging article on the preliminary analysis of the released PACE data and the back story to it. First highlighted by @Simon in a separate thread.