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Government orders release of PACE trial data

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered Queen Mary University of London to release anonymized PACE trial data to an unnamed complainant. Queen Mary has 28 days to appeal the decision. The report outlines the scope of the data requested, Queen Mary’s arguments for refusing to release the data and the Commissioner’s justification for siding with the patient requesting the

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Prof. Jonathan Edwards: PACE trial is "valueless"

OPINION PACE is valueless for one reason: the combination of lack of blinding of treatments and choice of subjective primary endpoint. Neither of these alone need be a fatal design flaw but the combination is. The only possible mitigation of this flaw would be if: 1. There were no acceptable alternatives to a subjective primary

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Add this PACE petition counter to your website

Use this code to add a PACE petition counter to your blog or website. It links back to the original petition and is a great way satisfy your PACE petition mania from the comfort of wherever on the internet you call home: You’ll need to format the font, colors, etc. to suit your tastes. Here’s what

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Misleading PACE claims should be retracted

Given the weak and flawed methodologies of the PACE trial, which claims that CBT and GET led to the recovery of ME/CFS patients, we, the undersigned patients, doctors, scientists, parents, children, family, friends, caretakers and #MEAllies: – call upon The Lancet to retract the claim made in its February 2011 editorial [1] that 30% of

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PACE Trial Controversy Grows

In wake of David Tuller’s investigation, PACE investigators publish follow up study Last week, journalist David Tuller published a four-part investigative piece on the 2011 PACE trial, a £5 million (US$8 million) non-blind study of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and graded exercise (GET) as treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome. In his piece, Tuller quotes top

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Investigative Journalist Exposes PACE Trial

Journalist and public health expert David Tuller completed yesterday the publication of his highly critical investigation into the UK’s £5 million PACE trial, on the well known Virology Blog (see Parts 1 and 2, Part 3 and Part 4). The PACE trial was a non-blind study of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET)

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David Tuller Tears Apart PACE Trial

Health scientist and New York Times published journalist David Tuller today launched a damning critique upon the UK’s £5 million PACE trial in an article published on the popular Virology Blog. The PACE trial was an open-label study of graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome that used subjective measures as

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Pillow Writers en Español

#MEAction is thrilled to announce Pillow Writers Network has expanded once again! This time with a dedicated group for Spanish speakers: Join us for our Pillow Writers En Español meetings! A place where ME/CFS/Long Covid patients are welcome to participate through writing. This #MEAction-sponsored event has been held in English for over three years. We

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#MEAction Georgia Volunteer, Maggie Boxey, Speaks at TEDxOjai

#MEAction Georgia recently had a huge accomplishment. Maggie Boxey, who is a member of the Georgia State Chapter, a Navy veteran, and a published author, recently gave a Tedx talk about her experience as a person with ME. Maggie was diagnosed a year ago but has been sick since 2020. Before becoming sick Maggie and

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