Tweets from Richard Horton on 17 February 2011: Tomorrow we publish the PACE trial, a study showing the benefits of CBT and Graded Exercise Therapy for CFS. But, we are in trouble. The ME Association has released a statement deploring the paper (while admitting it hasn't seen a copy). Why? Because the work does not... ...adopt a biomedical model for CFS. The ME Association argues that CFS is a complex multisystem disease, not a cognitive problem. Thus... ...we are the enemy. But surely any evidence of treatment benefit has to be good news. Apparently not. Which begs the question: just what... ...is the purpose of the MEA? To object to rigorous research findings because they challenge fixed assumptions? A disservice to patients.

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