Well, on the brightside there isn't a positive comment on this article in the comment section of the telegraph.
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Asalah Achterberg 23 Jun 2017 4:38PM
If Ms Sarah Knapton is sincerely interested in this topic, I suggest she takes a look at the journalistic efforts of DrPh David Tuller. He will show how this kind of research has been widely debunked by true scientists.
Graded exercise therapy has not been shown to help. In fact, the results are inflated by lax entrance criteria, shoddy protocols, and no objective measures. Moreover, many patients have gotten worse, not better. Often irrevocably, losing the little bit of quality of life they had left.
This completely uncritical article does more harm than good.
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helen oliver 23 Jun 2017 11:33AM
I am lost for words. You publish this and yet there was no mention in the UK press of the International conference organised by the charity InvestinME reporting on recent amazing advances in research for M.E (Stanford Prof Ron Davis amongst them). There is bias in reporting on M.E in the UK. Norway is running trials on a drug that is already showing positive results. This illness is in the blood. My housebound 27 yr old once fit, energetic fully employed, traveling, passionate for the outdoors daughter was seen by a leading ME CFS psychiatrist in London who has written in her notes that there is nothing wrong with her head/mind. He tried hard to find it!. This terrible reporting is devastating for UK ME patients and needs to stop."
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Jules Dub 23 Jun 2017 10:59AM
This is the kind of substandard article, which causes so much damage to a person who is affected by ME. Further causing them to have relationship breakdowns, with families/spouses/friends and (if they're lucky enough to work) colleagues and employers.
You have produced an article which is not accurate, you have not fully researched what you have shared, with an air of authority, as 'Science Editor' how totally unprofessional of you, how unethical of the Telegraph to allow it to be included in their newspaper.
Do you have the first clue the psychological abuse you are causing, printing these sensationalist articles, at the expense of the wellbeing of chronically ill and disabled people?
People deserve to be given ALL of the facts, not a 1 sided argument, which follows the rhetoric of people who know that this is 'bad science', the whole trial was seriously flawed, there is still ongoing dispute from researchers, scientists, specialists."
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Mark Harper 23 Jun 2017 9:46AM
This just seems to be the same old stuff from the heavily-criticised PACE trial, which also claimed marginal benefits from graded exercise therapy for sufferers from ME/CFS. In the USA, ME/CFS has been renamed systemic exertion intolerance disease (SEID) - the clue's in the name, exertion is exactly what ME/CFS sufferers can't tolerate! Trying to make sufferers increase their exertion levels willy-nilly is dangerous and could do real harm."
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Stinky Feet 23 Jun 2017 8:46AM
This is almost getting comical. Queen Mary are so up to their eyes in it they are still trying to push this. No doubt, just as the PACE trial was, GETSET will also be de-bunked with the authors clinging onto what's left of their careers. Graded exercise is harmful, the US are strides ahead in condemning this with the NIH now funding proper science. Come on UK, catch up."
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Madeline Scott 23 Jun 2017 1:15AM
How is this study different from the one published in 2015 - widely and internationally discredited, subject to an FOI request which showed the data had been misrecorded and misinterpreted, which QMUL spent £200 000 trying to suppress, which the MEA rightly continue to lobby the Lancet to retract, and which was reported in this newspaper ... in a manner which caused a large number of upheld complaints to Press Standards?!
It's just that on the face of it, it does seem to be entirely the same report, repeated. Why?"
Jules Dub 23 Jun 2017 11:23AM
Lazy journalism.... copied article from 2013 Pyschology Today; just scan the comments, on that article, and you can clearly see why the ME community/ME Sufferers, are so angry & frustrated, about such a damaging piece, 4 years on, being shared again as 'factual news'!
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sleep-newzzz/201303/exercise-and-cbt-can-help-chronic-fatigue