Fascinating piece on the AHRQ report on Cort's blog today, including Solve ME/CFS's reaction:
http://www.cortjohnson.org/blog/2014/10/22/report-decries-state-mecfs-research/
The key quote for me was:
BTW, I've noticed lately that some people are reposting blog posts from elsewhere in full here, but let's please not do this with Cort's piece. I understand that the idea is to make it convenient for people here to read it but it's not good netiquette - bloggers work hard and deserve to get the traffic to their own sites - and it's a breach of copyright (quoting small bits as I have done is also a breach but I'm recklessly assuming it's OK to quote a couple of sentences as long as I'm pointing people back towards Cort's blog).
http://www.cortjohnson.org/blog/2014/10/22/report-decries-state-mecfs-research/
The key quote for me was:
“Not only has the NIH egregiously underfunded this illness (based on prevalence), but the research NIH has funded has not contributed to an evidence base that has moved the science forward.”
Solve ME/CFS noted that since 1991 the NIH has spent 191.5 million dollars on ME/CFS, yet the AHRQ ended up rejecting ninety-nine percent of the NIH-funded studies because of design flaws.
BTW, I've noticed lately that some people are reposting blog posts from elsewhere in full here, but let's please not do this with Cort's piece. I understand that the idea is to make it convenient for people here to read it but it's not good netiquette - bloggers work hard and deserve to get the traffic to their own sites - and it's a breach of copyright (quoting small bits as I have done is also a breach but I'm recklessly assuming it's OK to quote a couple of sentences as long as I'm pointing people back towards Cort's blog).