Corporate interests controlled H J Eysenck and other Psychology professors to produce pro-tobacco findings, while King’s College London and UK universities profited.
Category Archives: SCIENCE
Subjective Validation Strikes Again: Mars Exploration Conducted for the US Government, May 22, 1984
Yet more pseudoscience has emerged from the remote viewing project StarGate funded by the CIA/DoD. This latest example of trash science promoted by the US government is a distraction from less palatable topics such as the Israel/Palestine and Russia/Ukraine conflicts, the Sudan genocide, the stoking of new wars, global warming, and multiple other catastrophes forContinue reading “Subjective Validation Strikes Again: Mars Exploration Conducted for the US Government, May 22, 1984”
Breakthrough Article: A general theory of rehabilitation: Rehabilitation catalyses and assists adaptation to illness
Author: Derick T Wade Centre for Movement, Occupation and Rehabilitation Sciences (MOReS), Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK. Email: derick.wade@ntlworld.com https://doi.org/10.1177/02692155231210151 Derick T Wade’s article first published online: October 27, 2023. The article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License. As a rule, I do not ordinarily republishContinue reading “Breakthrough Article: A general theory of rehabilitation: Rehabilitation catalyses and assists adaptation to illness”
On the Strangeness of Water
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Filtering Data in Evidence-Based Practice
A recent post described the evidence pyramid. Like anything else in science, there have been criticisms. Here I liken evidence-based practice to filtering coffee. Evidence needs filtering to remove the coffee grain and any impurities. The trouble is, if one filters a lot of times, there may be nothing left that’s worth drinking. Box 6.1Continue reading “Filtering Data in Evidence-Based Practice”
The Evidence Pyramid
The traditional evidence pyramid remains a useful heuristic device for evaluating scientific evidence in medicine and health care. The highest quality evidence in the top two levels of the pyramid is the most difficult to process. The lowest quality of evidence at the bottom two levels of the pyramid is the easiest to process. ThisContinue reading “The Evidence Pyramid”
The Paradoxical Nature of Coincidence
I am no mystic. By nature, I believe that I am inclined towards scepticism. Occasionally, however, events have occurred that appear to defy reason or scientific explanation. Coincidence is a good example. The traditional scientific explanation holds that coincidences are inevitable within the laws of chance. An alternative explanation entertains the possibility of an as-yetContinue reading “The Paradoxical Nature of Coincidence”
Smearing MECFS Patients in the Name of Science
A previous post reviewed the SMC’s ‘expert reactions’ concerning MECFS between 2011 and 2017. Here I review the Science Media Centre’s continued smearing of MECFS patients in a set of carefully curated ‘expert reactions’ to MECFS research between 2017 and 2020, I expose here further evidence of a deliberate smear campaign of a vulnerable patientContinue reading “Smearing MECFS Patients in the Name of Science”
ME/CFS and CBT – a basic error
For more than three decades, the Wessely School has searched for empirical support for its psychosomatic approach to CFS. That search has been in vain. I show here, here and here that the theoretical assumptions of the Wessely approach lack support and have fallen. The drive to show CBT and GET are effective treatments hasContinue reading “ME/CFS and CBT – a basic error”
ME/CFS and the Lightning Process
Here I review research by the Wessely School on the Lightning Process (LP). LP is a pseudoscientific cult founded by Phil Parker, a Tarot reader, specialist in auras and spiritual guides, and an osteopath. It has triggered a spate of shoddy evidence and false claims that brings a new low level to the checkered history ofContinue reading “ME/CFS and the Lightning Process”
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