An open letter to Psychological Medicine about “recovery” and the PACE trial

This open letter, posted today on the Virology Blog, calls on the UK journal Psychological Medicine to retract an article by the PACE team, in which they claimed to have achieved a 22% ME/CFS recovery rate using CBT and GET.  Here is the concluding paragraph:

Therefore, we are asking Psychological Medicine to retract the paper immediately. Patients and clinicians deserve and expect accurate and unbiased information on which to base their treatment decisions. We urge you to take action without further delay.

Citing numerous flaws in the study, many of which I have detailed in earlier posts, the open letter is signed by virtually every leading ME/CFS researcher in the U.S. and Canada.

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