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"It is understandable that the PACE investigators would defend the validity of their study, but they have understated their professional stake in the reported outcomes of the trial, which was framed from the outset as determining more than simply the effectiveness of the therapies. In fact, they were testing their own theories of the illness, as detailed in the Lancet paper in which they first announced their results..." from Investigator bias and the PACE trial - Steven Lubert

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PACE trial A controversial study which claimed that CBT and GET were effective in treating "CFS/ME", despite the fact that its own data did not support this conclusion. Its results and methodology were widely disputed by patients, scientists, and the peer-reviewed scientific literature.

bias Bias in research is "a systematic deviation of an observation from the true clinical state". (Learn more: me-pedia.org)

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