James Coyne to talk in Edinburgh Monday 16 Nov 2015 7pm

[Scarecrow]

A Skeptic looks at the flawed PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome study

Lancet Psychiatry recently published a long term follow-up study of cognitive behaviour therapy and graded exercise for chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). With a well orchestrated publicity campaign, the investigators declared that the follow-up assessment proved the enduring benefits of psychological therapies. As expected, the community of peoplewith ME/CFS vocally objected, but this time they were joined by professionalsfrom around the world. Events are still unfolding, but it appears that there are major changes going on aroundhow we think and talk about ME/CFS and its sufferers. This talk will provide background and discuss the changes that we can expect.

Speaker James C Coyne PhD was the 2015 Carnegie Centenary visiting professor at Stirling University during which he gave Skeptic in the Pub talks at Glasgow and Aberdeen. He was also a keynote speaker at the recent Australian National Skeptics convention in Brisbane on the Pseudoscience of Positive Psychology. He is the author of over 350 articles and has been designated by Web of Science as one of the most cited psychologists and psychiatrists in the world. Blogging at PLOS Mind the Brain and Science-Based Medicine, he regularly challenges bad science in high impactjournals and the media.

See his recent blog post at PLOS Mind the Brain about the flawed PACE ME/CFS trial that shows why results of follow-up study are uninterpretable and investigators' claims the benefits of psychological interventions persisted are untrue. It received over 10,000 visits in in the first week after its posting and the most comments ever of any PLOS blog.http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/...ace-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-follow-up-study/

For the location and time, please see the attached file.

 

[Scarecrow]

Could anyone suggest where I should save the PDF so that tweets can give the link to it?

 

[Sidereal]

I'd love to go.

 

[A.B.]

Hopefully there will be a video of the event.

PS: Coyne is really getting into the PACE slaying business.

 

[Sidereal]

Could anyone suggest where I should save the PDF so that tweets can give the link to it?

Here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x2gwwwcps2lz945/Edin J Coyne 2015 11 16 v2.pdf?dl=0

 

[SOC]

PS: Coyne is really getting into the PACE slaying business.

There's not a bigger dragon than PACE out there currently, so I suppose it's not surprising he'd be taking aim at it eventually.

@ballard, any hope of a St George and the (PACE) dragon cartoon? I imagine we'd need two knights, though, David and James.

 

[Scarecrow]

Here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x2gwwwcps2lz945/Edin J Coyne 2015 11 16 v2.pdf?dl=0

Wonderful.

Thanks

 

[Esther12]

Would love to be there for this... need cure quick.

 

[Sidereal]

I have 10 days to exercise my way to recovery so that I can make it to this talk. It's going to be a steeply graded programme of GET.

 

[Scarecrow]

Hopefully there will be a video of the event.

It's being looked into. No promises.

 

[adreno]

Sounds really interesting.

 

[jimells]

@Scarecrow will you be able to attend and express gratitude on our behalf?

 

[Scarecrow]

@Scarecrow will you be able to attend and express gratitude on our behalf?

I most certainly will.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

I most certainly will.

Say hello from me and apologies for being in Oman. I would have enjoyed a quick trip to Edinburgh.

 

[Scarecrow]

Say hello from me and apologies for being in Oman. I would have enjoyed a quick trip to Edinburgh.

Oh, now I'm torn. How about you come to Edinburgh and I'll go to Oman? Does that work for you?

I'll be sure to pass on the message.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

Oh, now I'm torn. How about you come to Edinburgh and I'll go to Oman? Does that work for you?

I'll be sure to pass on the message.

Air tickets not transferrable I am afraid - and the birdwatching at 6.00 in the morning might be a drag.

 

[Valentijn]

@ballard, any hope of a St George and the (PACE) dragon cartoon? I imagine we'd need two knights, though, David and James.

Or make Coyne into a large iceberg

 

[Sidereal]

Photo ID may be requested on entry.

Keeping the riff raff out then.

 

[Sidereal]

ME militants with long rap sheets of writing forum posts and tweeting politely @ BPS researchers.

 

[bsw]

I would settle for just a transcript of the speech tbh.