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White seems to believe in digging your way out of a deep hole.
donecan someone post Dr Zahers letter?
"The decision by the U.S. government’s Agency for Health Research Quality (AHRQ) to downgrade its recommendation on the usefulness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) in ME/CFS is a significant and consequential development. It is virtually unprecedented for AHRQ to change a recommendation. Coming in the form of an Addendum to the published 2014 AHRQ ME/CFS Evidence Review after a methodical reanalysis of CBT/GET ME/CFS literature, this development was triggered by unrelenting requests from the patient community."
edit: this is the link
http://solvecfs.org/september-zaher-letter/
The print edition is dying on it's arse. It's only the quinoa ultras who'll see it unrebutted. We definitely need a right to reply on this bollocks though.The comments section won't be in the print version. He's taking a Newt Gingrich approach - what matters isn't facts, but how people feel. So he's fighting for the hearts of people who don't have access to the facts.
Some interesting recent comments on the Bad Science forum including a link to some independant statisticians who have presented the raw data distributions in graphical form and are not impressed :
http://badscience.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=34704&start=275
The comments section won't be in the print version. He's taking a Newt Gingrich approach - what matters isn't facts, but how people feel. So he's fighting for the hearts of people who don't have access to the facts.
This is shockingly, shockingly desperate. He's unhinged if he thinks this sort of white washing doesn't risk biting him in the ass down the line.
"The rigours of scientific peer-review"
I cannot actually find the piece going to the Guardian site now. Is it still there. I can still access it by revisiting it through my 'History' menu.
Sorry @Old Bones, I can't like your post. When will they stop spouting their nonsensical false illness beliefs???
I found it on Page 2 of comments
Good.I can find the comments on the piece once I have it, but the piece itself does not seem to show on the Guardian website.