"No More Mr NICE Guy…" by Prof. Brian Hughes

[Tom Kindlon]

https://thesciencebit.net/2020/11/21/no-more-mr-nice-guy/

The newly released draft NICE guidelines for the management of “myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome” continue to cause a stir.

And rightly so. The new guidelines not only repudiate a heretofore favoured treatment approach for a particular illness, they also threaten to discredit an entire (albeit quirky) branch of medicine — and, for good measure, to cast clouds over significant swathes of psychology too.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1330245867476017154

 

[Countrygirl]

You beat me to it @Tom Kindlon .

It is a super piece and one we can use with the doctors who want to prevent the new NICE guidelines from being accepted. Great blog!

 

[Judee]

This is so good. He pegged it when he said, "Psychologists, collectively, have too long been tolerant of methodological amateurishness. Some of them actually seem to like it.

 

[Countrygirl]

I see that Prof Brian Hughes has had his account suspended on Twitter since launching his article. Have the PACE authors and Wessley been busy again silencing those who shed light on their poor science? Does anyone know more?

 

[Tom Kindlon]

I see that Prof Brian Hughes has had his account suspended on Twitter since launching his article. Have the PACE authors and Wessley been busy again silencing those who shed light on their poor science? Does anyone know more?

99% sure account was gone before latest blog. It certainly was gone before it, I just don’t know if it had been reinstated.