anne_likes_red
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I wonder who the 2 votes for beauty were from. Anyone prepared to come out and admit to voting for beauty?
Flymon Wessely.
And I bet he figured out how to vote twice.
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I wonder who the 2 votes for beauty were from. Anyone prepared to come out and admit to voting for beauty?
We should seek some expert opinions by polling some scatologists. But not philosophical scatologists, they would accuse us of devising a moral dilemma.Can we vote both ways? Its a beautiful example of a pile of crap.
After all, a pile of crap is a thing.
This study will be an exemplar in courses on how to not do research.
Yay! Me too! Silliness is sometimes the only way to go. Take Care.
A thing of beauty....now up to 3 votes!
Flymon Wessely.
And I bet he figured out how to vote twice.
Looks like we're gonna need a very large fly swatter for this one.
You're probably too late. It's almost certainly been parlayed into a death threat by nowI just want to point out that this was a JOKE (in case it wasn't obvious)! I don't really want to see Flymon swatted!!
I just want to point out that this was a JOKE (in case it wasn't obvious)! I don't really want to see Flymon swatted!!
. Aim was to try and add a little happiness and joy, and moral support, as finding the 'Yay!' and the humour within each and every day of this relentless illness .
And may I add from personal experience 'with an incorrigible sense of humour!'As the writer Sophie Heawood said, “The older I get, the more I see how women are described as having gone mad, when what they’ve actually become is knowledgeable and powerful and fucking furious.”
You're probably too late. It's almost certainly been parlayed into a death threat by now
Far, far too late, @Laelia , the Science Media Centre has just re-tweeted Flymon's tweet that he would feel safer infiltrating an ISIS-held stronghold than continuing to lurk on Phoenix Rising.
Don't worry @suseq, you're fine. We're referencing an aspect of Wessely's behaviour that hasn't been mentioned in this particular thread (but you can see it here). One of his tactics for undermining sufferers was to claim that he had received death threats from them (i.e. clearly this shows that they are mentally unhinged); the claim was rolled out again as part of the effort to avoid scrutiny of the PACE trial data, at which point it was investigated and found to be false.Gosh, really hope my flash of lighthearted exuberance hasn't been misconstrued.
The public relies on scientists to report their findings accurately and completely, but that does not always happen. Too often, researchers announce only their most favorable outcomes, while keeping more disappointing results well out of sight.
This phenomenon, first identified by the psychologist Robert Rosenthal in 1979, is called the “file drawer problem.” Although it is widely recognized – affecting drug trials, psychology experiments and most other fields – it has seldom been documented, for obvious reasons. Suppressed results are, well, suppressed, and they are usually discovered only by chance.
It was therefore almost unprecedented when a group of patients, at the end of last year, successfully unmasked the skewed data behind an influential British study, first published in Lancet in 2011, of the devastating disease known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (sometimes called myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME/CFS).
My interest in this issue is both professional and personal. As a law professor, I have devoted much of my career to the study of judicial ethics, including the problem of implicit biases that can undermine the reliability of both court trials and clinical trials.
I have also been living with ME/CFS for over a decade, so I am acutely attuned to the need for responsible and transparent research on the illness. Unfortunately, the most extensive study of ME/CFS – called the PACE trial – was deeply flawed from its inception, in ways that the principal investigators have yet to acknowledge.
Thus, the PACE investigators proved nothing more than a familiar adage among statisticians: If you torture the data, they will confess anything.
Researchers in the U.S. and Australia have recently made great progress toward identifying biomarkers for ME/CFS, which may lead to an effective medical intervention. Over 100 prominent researchers, clinicians and organizations have called on Psychological Medicine to retract the PACE article, although the journal has not yet publicly responded.
Thanks to the original PACE announcement, however, graded exercise is still routinely prescribed throughout the U.S. and the U.K. despite reports that the treatments can cause intolerable pain and relapse. Those who question GET are often told that they must simply exercise more, no matter how badly they crash afterward.
It is bad enough to torture the data, but it is indefensible to torture patients based on manipulated results.