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An unblinded trial such as PACE simply does not provide useful information

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Thanks Bob, nice to have these links in one place.

A note to anyone not aware: you can read and "like" comments on the bmj rapid responses without any need for a sign in - good to show support for the authors of these comments.
 

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(In case anyone missed it)
The journalist, David Tuller DrPH, has today posted a substantial piece on the PACE Trial:

TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study
http://www.virology.ws/2015/10/21/trial-by-error-i/

There's an introduction and summary at the start if you don't want to take on the whole thing.

It's being discussed in this PR thread:
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...he-pace-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-study.40664/

ME Network have also posted their own summary piece:
http://www.meaction.net/2015/10/21/david-tuller-tears-apart-pace-trial/
 

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Can you hear the tapping of shoes running into the distance?

That's BPS theory of CFS running away from the scene of the crime.

Tens of millions of people with ME (via CFS) are blamed for their condition in Western countries, of which only a small percentage are mentally ill. Infact, PACE even failed to show that as PACE wasn't G93.3 (CFS ME) but F48.0.

What happened to the patients with progressive fatal ME who weren't mentally ill?
What happened to the patients who became mentally ill and committed suicide, due to the Iatrogenic neglect?


The patients died due to lack of treatment, due to lack of funding, because government agencies refused to help and went with the cheap option - blame the victim of disease.

CBT GET, a health policy sold to the Western world as cheap, safe, and effective to 'manage' autoimmune autonomic (novel inflammatory) disease.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?