{"id":39470,"date":"2023-06-01T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=39470"},"modified":"2023-06-01T08:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T07:22:57","slug":"prof-brian-hughes-2021-nice-guideline-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/prof-brian-hughes-2021-nice-guideline-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Brian Hughes: 2021 NICE guideline myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><strong>Getting it Right: Addressing myths about the 2021 NICE guideline for ME\/CFS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofgalway.ie\/our-research\/people\/psychology\/brianhughes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Hughes<\/a> is an academic psychologist and university professor in Galway, Ireland with a blog called <a href=\"https:\/\/thesciencebit.net\/2023\/05\/30\/getting-it-right-addressing-myths-about-the-2021-nice-guideline-for-me-cfs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Science bit<\/a>. On World ME Day 2023 he spoke to the <a href=\"https:\/\/hope4mefibro.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hope 4 ME &amp; Fibro NI<\/a> conference in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>He outlined eight pieces of misinformation regarding the new guideline (and about ME\/CFS more generally) that are currently being pushed from certain quarters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These myths included:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cCBT and GET are \u2018evidence-based\u2019 treatments for ME\/CFS!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEvidence cannot just \u2018change\u2019!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe NICE review was driven by patient advocacy!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe defenders of the old guideline are simply standing up for science!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou cannot evaluate ME\/CFS outcomes using objective measures!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Watch the video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Session 4 - Getting it Right: Addressing Myths about the 2021 NICE Guideline for ME\/CFS\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IM6x7MbQwOA\" width=\"596\" height=\"335\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting it Right: Addressing myths about the 2021 NICE guideline for ME\/CFS &nbsp; Brian Hughes is an academic psychologist and university professor in Galway, Ireland with a blog called the Science bit. On World ME Day 2023 he spoke to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/prof-brian-hughes-2021-nice-guideline-myths\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[303,7558],"class_list":["post-39470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nice-guidelines","tag-prof-brian-hughes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Prof-Brian-Hughes.jpg?fit=1125%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-agC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39475,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39470\/revisions\/39475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}