http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/times2/i-got-me-and-thought-this-is-the-end-pvsprjkpl
http://www.meassociation.org.uk/201...ht-this-is-the-end-the-times-2-november-2016/
http://www.meassociation.org.uk/201...ht-this-is-the-end-the-times-2-november-2016/
Pace led to headlines such as “Got ME? Just get out and exercise, say scientists” and “Chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers ‘can overcome symptoms of ME with positive thinking and exercise’ ”. That trial cost the British taxpayer more than £5 million but a re-analysis co-authored by expert patients and top US scientists recently claimed that recovery results had been inflated. Far from CBT being a miracle cure with graded exercise, they concluded that it had “no benefits” for patients with CFS and might even be harmful.
The authors of the Pace trial, however, stand by their original conclusions. “Whichever way the data is viewed, patients get better results from CBT and GET — both confirmed as safe — than they do from pacing [themselves] or medical care alone,” Pace’s lead investigator Peter White wrote in The Guardian.