Another BMJ rapid response
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) recently commissioned and published a highly dubious opinion piece by Alastair Miller and coauthors arguing that patients w...
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Psychiatry and its poorly-evidenced theories: ‘Chemical imbalances’ in depression, and ‘dysfunctional illness beliefs’ in ME/CFS
It occured to me recently that there are quite a number of similarities between the chemical imbalance theory of depression and the traditional (bio)psychoso...
Rapid response to the BMJ ‘living systematic review’ of long COVID interventions
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) recently published a ‘living’ systematic review of interventions for long COVID (post-COVID condition) by Zeraatkhar and co...
Text-message lobbying of senior NICE staff by individuals at NHS England and the Royal College of Psychiatrists in days before ME/CFS guideline pause
On August 4 2021, an embargoed copy of the final NICE guideline for ME/CFS — already severely delayed — was distributed to registered stakeholders “for a fin...
BACME, NHS ME/CFS clinics shift from deconditioning to dysregulation model of ME/CFS in anticipation of updated NICE guideline
The British Association for Clinicians in ME/CFS (BACME) describes itself as ‘a multidisciplinary organisation for UK professionals who are involved in the d...