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health warning: this talk was published in 2005 and delivered in 2002 so things may have moved on since then
1: “The more we understand about many diseases, the simpler the models get”
I don’t think I’ve ever come across such an impressive critique of the biopsychosocial model before, and it’s...
A list of my blogs to date:
New blog site from 2018:
ME/CFS Reseach Review
2018
The CMRC's new biomedical focus and big ambitions (Mar)
2017
Mark Davis finds the strongest evidence yet for ME/CFS immune activation and hunts for the trigger (August)
2016
The Power and Pitfalls of...
Some research turns out to be wrong in every scientific field, but how big a problem is flawed research in psychology? The Reproducibility Project aims to find out, by systematically trying to replicate studies published in three prominent psychology journals.
Brian Nosek, a psychology...
Could findings about psychological causes of CFS be overstated or even wrong?
Seven years ago, John Ioannidis detonated a small bomb under the Life Sciences with his paper “Why most published research findings are False”. He made the case that widespread failings such as small sample sizes and...