I've never been enthused by Watson's involvement with OMF tbh, and I suspected... edit: thought I'd remove unfounded speculations.
I wonder if the hype and media push around this research could relate to the REF2021 process, and KCL's desire to be able to present their CFS...
Sure - ideally we'd be able to find out enough about the individuals to let us do that. But it really does seem like UK medicine has been...
Thanks for that @Peter Trewhitt - I really should have started doing that myself. I had a very vague memory of reading stuff I didn't think was...
Doesn't anyone else get a pang of fear that it has been announced Wessely has been appointed to the House of Lords every time this thread is bumped?
Probably what matters most to us is the caliber of the individuals with power over the group. If the people in charge had a history of standing up...
That sounds terrible. Hazel O'Dowd and SEE ME... ffs.
I didn't know Phil was on their board (or maybe I did, and just forgot) - no offense Phil!
In addition to the other problems people have noted to them, and related, is that I just don't think the people at Action for ME are competent....
I wonder if the unusual patients turning up at KCL has had a wider impact on research from Wessely/Chalder over the years?
Don't most people respond to painful stimuli more when they're exhausted? I thought that it used to before falling ill, eg: stubbing my toe when...
Dump for me. I think that I could be using childhood slang that's thirty years out of date though. In the UK 'dumb' still has some associations...
Sadly, there are still too many dump ME/CFS papers from Crawley & co to be able to keep up with.
The references for that were [7,44–46], which didn't look to be promoting CBT/GET... I'm not sure about the coenzyme Q10 stuff either though: 7)...
I had been wondering if researchers looking at the ebola aftermath might turn up things that might relate to to ME/CFS. I didn't see a reference...
Wasn't Lloyd on some TV program where he was basically calling for this process to avoid re-doing the guidelines, and instead call for more...
A Tuller post on Christmas day? We must have been really good this year for Santa to work such wonders! I think I'll save this for when I open the...
Yes, but it often seems to get misinterpreted.
The 'not relieved by rest' thing is on the current CDC CFS page says: https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/symptoms-diagnosis/symptoms.html Is it from a...
Thanks for the summary. Interesting. It would be interesting to know how he she justified that claim.
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