Category: canada
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More on the Canadian Long COVID Trial with Plans to Lie to Participants Receiving an Exercise Intervention
I recently posted a blog about the protocol for a Canadian Long COVID exercise trial in which the investigators proposed lying to the participants about the nature of both the study and the intervention being assessed. While acknowledging that a significant number of people with Long COVID report experiencing post-exertional malaise (PEM), the investigators appear…
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In Protocol for Long COVID Exercise Trial, Investigators Advocate Lying to Participants
Researchers are planning yet another trial of a rehabilitative exercise program for Long COVID—but, in this one, they propose to lie to all the participants about the nature of the study and the intervention being investigated. BMJ Open has recently published a paper called “Pursuing Reduction in Fatigue After COVID-19 via Exercise and Rehabilitation PREFACER:…
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Canadian GET/CBT Campaigners Publish Propaganda Cosplaying as Research on Twitter Trends
McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, seems to be Canada’s Ground Zero for psychosomatic theorizing. In March, 2021, a psychiatrist-in-training, Jeremy Devine, published an opinion in The Wall Street Journal titled “The Dubious Origins of Long Covid.” (I wrote about it here.) Devine cited the PACE trial favorably, as if its findings were meaningful. The animating…
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Canadian Group Seeks Feedback on Recommendations for Exercise and CBT for Long Covid
A group called Canadian Guidelines for Post COVID-19 Condition (CAN-PCC) has released a new set of draft recommendations related to preventing, diagnosing and treating what is commonly called Long Covid. The current list of nine draft recommendations includes exercise and cognitive behavior therapy, which has understandably raised concerns among advocates for both Long Covid and…