[incangold]

One infuriating thing about PACE is that even the fraudulent results only showed a 22% recovery rate.

For a disease as serious as ME/CFS, a treatment with a 22% recovery rate is far from good enough. Even if PACE stood up to scrutiny it wouldn’t have made sense to give up on finding better treatments.

[noitpmeder]

I mean, 22% sounds pretty damn good if there are no long lasting negative side effects of being part of the remaining 78%.

Like, sure, shoot for 200% cure rate, but even a success rate of 1% cured of a previously unrecoverable situation is insanely informative.

[noitpmeder]

(self reply) (obviously if the 22% number itself is bogus then you can't trust anything)