Further to my previous post about the complaint about Cochrane’s Editor in Chief, I wrote to the Cochrane support address given if you want to contact Cochrane’s Governing Board. 24 June 2023 Dear Cochrane Support (cc Gillian Leng, Lorraine Ross, Charity Commission) I have asked at least once for you to forward correspondence regarding complaints… Continue reading Email to Cochrane Governing Board: 24 June 2023
Category: Cochrane Exercise for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Review
Complaint to Cochrane about Editor-in-Chief: March 2023
Below is the text of a formal complaint I made in March this year. Unlike previous complaints – I’ve been plugging away since 2018 – this one was specifically about the actions of the Editor-in-Chief. It focuses on her decision to allow the authors of the Exercise for CFS review to update the review, instead… Continue reading Complaint to Cochrane about Editor-in-Chief: March 2023
Preparing a complaint to Cochrane: January 2023
I am preparing to send a complaint about Cochrane Editor-in-Chief Karla Soares-Weiser for allowing Cochrane authors to ignore an explicit instruction from arbitrator Gordon Guyatt to highlight in the amended Exercise Therapy for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that exercise has no important effect on fatigue. I have written to Cochrane CEO Catherine Spencer for more detail… Continue reading Preparing a complaint to Cochrane: January 2023
Correspondence with the Charity Commission (April-May 2019)
After the complaint submitted to the Cochrane Board in November was passed back to the Editor in Chief in December, I decided to send it also to the Charity Commission. The reasons for serious complaint are listed here https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-charity If a charity is, for example: not doing what it claims to do losing lots of… Continue reading Correspondence with the Charity Commission (April-May 2019)
Reply to David Tovey’s letter about the Exercise for CFS review (February 2019)
Below is my reply to David Tovey’s letter to me sent on 6 January in response to my complaint about the Exercise for CFS review. David’s letter is posted on a previous blog here. 18 February 2019 Dear Governing Board and Chair of the Cochrane Library Oversight Committee, cc. David Tovey, Editor-in-Chief; Mark Wilson, Cochrane… Continue reading Reply to David Tovey’s letter about the Exercise for CFS review (February 2019)