Dr David Tuller:Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Calls Out the GET/CBT Charlatans and the Fraudulent PACE Trial

[Countrygirl]

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Trial By Error: Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Calls Out the GET/CBT Charlatans and the Fraudulent PACE Trial

https://virology.ws/2024/03/14/tria...cbt-charlatans-and-the-fraudulent-pace-trial/

3 Comments / By David Tuller / 14 March 2024

By David Tuller, DrPH

In a blistering take-down published on Tuesday, Guardian columnist George Monbiot indicted Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Professor Michael Sharpe and the rest of the GET/CBT ideological brigades for their decades-long promotion of discredited theories about and bogus research into the cluster of illnesses now being called ME/CFS. Those theories and research strategies reached their apotheosis, of course, in the fraudulent PACE trial.
And “fraudulent” is the right word for a study in which—unknown to readers–13% of participants had met the threshold for “recovery” on a key measure at baseline. Moreover, anyone who seriously argues that this bizarre anomaly is not fraudulent—as in deliberately deceptive–is a charlatan. (That’s not to say that PACE meets legal definitions of “fraud.” I’m not a lawyer so can’t speak to that. The trial certainly meets current definitions of research misconduct.) As I’ve said repeatedly, it’s a piece of crap.

The first sentence of Monbiot’s column calls the treatment of ME/CFS patients “the biggest medical scandal of the 21st century,” echoing the words of Carol Monaghan, a member of Parliament, about the PACE trial itself. But whether we’re talking about the trial or the overall treatment of patients, here my question about that “21st century” thing: Is it too early to call this biggest medical scandal of the third millennium?...........................

 

[Countrygirl]

This is the Guardian article as I see the thread on it is closed.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...atigue-syndrome-me-treatments-social-services

‘You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal​

George Monbiot

 

[Countrygirl]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/15/why-mecfs-is-still-so-poorly-researched-and-treated
The responses are published.

Prof Sharpe and Prof Garner's letters are published.

Only Charles Shepherd's of the letters from the ME expert's was accepted.

 

[Alvin2]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/15/why-mecfs-is-still-so-poorly-researched-and-treated
The responses are published.

Prof Sharpe and Prof Garner's letters are published.

Only Charles Shepherd's of the letters from the ME expert's was accepted.

Garner is playing games (concern trolling) and Sharpe thinks he can convince people their own eyes are lying to them.