The expert testimony to NICE that took apart the case for CBT and graded exercise for ME/CFS
The central problem: flawed ME/CFS treatment studies tell us nothing useful Edwards highlighted the central problem, that CBT and graded exercise studies have relied on biased methods that produce unreliable results. Most clinical trials of drugs are run blinded, which means that patients don’t know if they are getting the active drug or are receiving a dummy pill in the “control” group. Success is defined not as the improvement in the drug group alone, but whether or not people in…