This is an amazeballs conclusion to draw from a failure to reject the null. I had to read it thrice. https://twitter.com/OnlyEnnui/status/1266144072424701953

Sorry to be more clear: I am not sure how you can get away with saying, “We ran a really well-run, high-powered study. We did not find a treatment effect, even though we thought we would. However, in our opinion, we still believe the treatment works.”

Isn’t it a bit like saying, “As a doctor I am committed to evidence-based medicine, unless the evidence contradicts my beliefs, in which case I just ignore the evidence and do my own thang.”

Oh my God! This is me!

“For example, some patients with dissociative seizures might experience prominent so-called panic-without-panic autonomic symptoms.”

I am totally the patient group they are describing. They would have recommended cognitive behavioral therapy for my craniocervical instability and when it didn’t work because NO AMOUNT OF CBT WILL REATTACH YOUR SKULL TO YOUR SPINE they would have kept doing it anyway.

Although, the power of the mind-body connection IS very strong. It is perfectly possible that if I talked to my mast cells and told them to shut up and slowly taught my fibrils to weave collagen like Peter Parker’s spider silk, I would have been fine.

Damn.

Now we’ll never know

*fibroblasts