Countrygirl
Senior Member
- Messages
- 5,314
- Location
- UK
https://www.virology.ws/2021/11/20/...hTX3d69lxMC4R4lqRrqrfSgMMfBCbgTuwlb-iMsnCB2Ec
DAVID REPORTS ON THAT PAPER BY THE THREE DESPERADOES
TRIAL BY ERROR: NEW PAPER FROM PACE AUTHORS REPEATS BOGUS ARGUMENTS AND DEFENSES
20 November 2021 by David Tuller 1 Comment
https://www.virology.ws/.../trial-by-error-new-paper.../...
By David Tuller, DrPH
DAVID REPORTS ON THAT PAPER BY THE THREE DESPERADOES
TRIAL BY ERROR: NEW PAPER FROM PACE AUTHORS REPEATS BOGUS ARGUMENTS AND DEFENSES
20 November 2021 by David Tuller 1 Comment
https://www.virology.ws/.../trial-by-error-new-paper.../...
By David Tuller, DrPH
The October 29th publication of the new guideline for ME/CFS from Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) represented an enormous and humiliating repudiation of the PACE trial and the many related studies of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) as treatments for the illness. That means it also represented an enormous and humiliating rejection of the persistent claims by the PACE authors, and their colleagues, that this research documents meaningful improvements in patients.
According to NICE’s thorough review of the data, the main evidence for the effectiveness of these interventions is of either “very low” or merely “low” quality—a salient detail not mentioned in a newly published article from the three lead PACE authors called “Evidence‑Based Care for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.” This is in some ways a sad and revealing document. It is obvious that these three–Professors Michael Sharpe, Trudie Chalder and Peter White–have nothing new to say. The folly of PACE has been exposed. They insist it’s all a big misunderstanding. They repeat disingenuous arguments that have already been rejected.