In the excellent article "How a study about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was doctored, adding to pain and stigma" (see link to article below), the author has posted the following response to comments about the PACE Trial being a fraud:
"Let’s be careful about the word “fraud.” I don’t think the PACE team or journal editors are trying to fool anyone. They are sincere in their beliefs, although that does not make them any less harmful. The history of medicine is filled with clinicians who stuck to their treatments long after they were proven ineffective or worse. This is another extremely damaging example of that."
I suspect there are some (perhaps many?) on here that might disagree with this sentiment.
What are your thoughts? Was the PACE trial a fraud or was it simply incompetence? If you think is was fraud, what is the evidence for this?
https://theconversation.com/how-a-s...-was-doctored-adding-to-pain-and-stigma-74890
[Edited to remove suggestion to post comments about this on the article itself. It might be more sensible to keep the discussion about this here]
"Let’s be careful about the word “fraud.” I don’t think the PACE team or journal editors are trying to fool anyone. They are sincere in their beliefs, although that does not make them any less harmful. The history of medicine is filled with clinicians who stuck to their treatments long after they were proven ineffective or worse. This is another extremely damaging example of that."
I suspect there are some (perhaps many?) on here that might disagree with this sentiment.
What are your thoughts? Was the PACE trial a fraud or was it simply incompetence? If you think is was fraud, what is the evidence for this?
https://theconversation.com/how-a-s...-was-doctored-adding-to-pain-and-stigma-74890
[Edited to remove suggestion to post comments about this on the article itself. It might be more sensible to keep the discussion about this here]
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