Better Days: When PLOS Blogs Honored My Post About Fatal Flaws in the Pace Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Follow-up Study (2015)
The back story on my receiving this honor was that PLOS Blogs only days before had shut down the blog site because of complaints from someone associated with the PACE trial. I was asked to resign. I refused. PLOS Blogs relented when I said it would be a publicity disaster for PLOS Blogs.
Your Top 15 in ’15: Most popular on PLOS BLOGS Network
I was included in a list of the most popular blog posts in a network that received over 2.3 million visitors reading more than 600 new posts. [It is curious that the sixth and seventh most popular posts were omitted from this list, but that’s another story].
I was mentioned for number 11:
11) Uninterpretable: Fatal flaws in PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome follow-up study Mind the Brain 10/29/15
Investigating and sharing potential errors in scientific methods and findings, particularly involving psychological research, is the primary reason Clinical Health Psychologist (and PLOS ONE AE) Jim Coyne blogs on Mind the Brain and elsewhere. This closely followe…