Hilda Bastian

Hilda Bastian is a patient consumer rights advocate from Australia. She writes a blog on the PlosOne science journal website.

Cochrane CFS exercise review
In February 2020, Cochrane announced that Hilda Bastian would lead the independent advisory group for the full update of the Cochrane Review Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome, a review which she had previously criticized.

Dr Bastian published two previous blog posts on Cochrane's review of the impact and effectiveness of exercise therapy, including graded exercise therapy, in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Notable studies

 * ‘They would say that, wouldn't they?’ A reader's guide to author and sponsor biases in clinical research (Full text)

Letters, blogs and videos

 * 2016, A Reader's Guide to Conflicts of Interest in Biomedicine (Full text)
 * 2019, Consumer contested evidence: Why the ME/CFS exercise dispute matters so much
 * 2019, It's a Start: The Amended Version of the Cochrane Review on Exercise and CFS

Online presence

 * Twitter
 * Tumblr blog
 * Statistically Funny blog
 * PLOS ONE Blog
 * Website

Learn more

 * Wikipedia