James Coyne

Professor James Coyne is an American psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the 2015 Carnegie Centenary Visiting Professor at University of Stirling, Scotland. He is also a Professor of Health Psychology, University Medical Ctr., Groningen and University of the Netherlands and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Institute for Health Policy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has written over 350 papers and chapters, and was recently designated one of the 200 most eminent psychologists of the second half of the 20th century.

Professor Coyne is a vocal critic of the PACE trial.

Writings on ME/CFS and PACE trial
10 September 2016 - What is next for Coyne of the Realm after Queen Mary University London releases PACE trial data? 30 September 2016 - Simon Wessely’s muddled views of the good psychotherapy trial: I. Misunderstanding control groups 15 December 2016 - Reply to an author complaining about my critique of a RCT of CBT for an unrecognized mental disorder 18 March 2017 - March 2017 -Don’t bother to apply: PACE investigators issue guidance for researchers requesting access to data 20 March 2017  Could I critically evaluate the published results of the PACE trial without the raw data? 2 May 2017 -Breaking News: PLOS One issues Expression of Concern for PACE trial paper] 26 May 2017 - More signs the tide is turning: Vaughan Bell in The Lancet Psychiatry on routine data sharing 7 June 2017 - h[ttps://jcoynester.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/nice-guidelines-are-discrepant-with-meta-analyses-and-based-on-political-considerations-an-exchange/ NICE guidelines are discrepant with meta analyses and based on political considerations: An exchange] 8 July 2017 - Global expert on distant and faith healing chaired PACE Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee 19 July 2017 - Misconduct in an author’s nomination of reviewers for his manuscript

Talks & interviews
Professor Coyne gave a talk in November 2015 at Edinburgh University where he spoke critically about the PACE trial. .

Online presence

 * Twitter
 * PLOS Blogs - Mind the Brain - James Coyne
 * James Coyne Blog
 * Facebook - James Coyne

Learn more

 * Wikipedia - James C Coyne
 * 2016, Has the “Coyne of the Realm” been devalued?