Category: trial
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Yet Another CBT Trial for Long Covid with Poor Results
The Journal of Psychosomatic Research has often served as a house organ of sorts for the “biopsychosocial” ideological brigades. That’s to be expected, given that folks like Per Fink, Michael Sharpe, and Jon Stone are all members of the journal’s editorial board. It should therefore not be surprising that the journal would publish crap like…
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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…