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  1. Sean

    #ThereForME campaign / Building an NHS that’s there for Long Covid and ME

    Effective interview. I agree. It is important to keep the focus of criticism on the psychosomatic wing of the psych professions. Our argument is not with psych in general, and never has been. It is with the psychosomatic wing and their methodologically and ethically bankrupt claims. (Of...
  2. Sean

    USA: The RECOVER Initiative - Long Covid research

    I regard terms like multi-disciplinary, multi-organ, multi-modal, complex, etc, as red flags about the profession's ignorance and lack of interest in admitting it.
  3. Sean

    Boom and bust, another ME/CFS myth? - ME/CFS Skeptic blog

    That is my view of what they are doing, and it is appalling beyond words. To the extent they can be called experts at anything it is at exploiting popular prejudices and bigotries, and the myriad flaws within governance and quality control processes. And they really are some of the very best...
  4. Sean

    Acupuncture and other traditional Chinese medicine news and discussion thread

    Was it clinically significant? Or neither? 40/51 is at least most studies, if not the overwhelming majority.
  5. Sean

    United Kingdom: News from BACME - British Association of Clinicians in ME/CFS

    Peer-review in psychosomatics is clearly fundamentally broken, and is clearly not going to be fixed by the current generation in that field. It is going to require an external intervention imposing adequate standards on them, and monitoring them for some time to ensure they comply.
  6. Sean

    Catastrophizing, time to ditch the term? - ME/CFS Skeptic blog

    Exactly. Very pleased and grateful you chose to stay here and keep contributing your invaluable insight and experience. :thumbsup: I would call that realistic, based on very hard earned lessons. The persistent failure to account for (actual) context by the psychosomatic club, including their...
  7. Sean

    Fatigue and psychiatric disorder: Different or the same? 1999 Chalder, Wessely

    @bobbler Prof. Ian Hickie is one of the mental health gurus here in Australia, and is most definitely not a friend to the ME/CFS community, and anything he is involved with is automatically suspect.
  8. Sean

    Parkinson’s may begin in the gut, study says, adding to growing evidence

    Uh-oh. I tick those boxes, some of them very long term too. The reflux has been an issue since my teens, and only got progressively worse as I got older, resulting in being on PPIs for about 20 years now. Also probably resulted in developing Barret's esophagus, which is something you really...
  9. Sean

    Fatigue and psychiatric disorder: Different or the same? 1999 Chalder, Wessely

    Yeah, I have not seen much from him, at any level of research, clinical, policy, or medico-legal, that I would call useful.
  10. Sean

    UK:ME Association funds research for a new clinical assessment toolkit in NHS ME/CFS specialist services, 2023

    Maybe. They are proving very resilient and resistant to substantive reform, and the rest of the power structure is not doing a good job yet at removing them and their shit theories from practical application.
  11. Sean

    UK:ME Association funds research for a new clinical assessment toolkit in NHS ME/CFS specialist services, 2023

    The lack of self-awareness in some people never ceases to astound me. It is either that or he knows what he is doing and just doesn't give a shit about the harm it causes. Clinician, heal thyself.
  12. Sean

    Open letter to Action for ME with concerns about their promotion of a problematic Care and Support Plan Template

    Thank you Trish, and Sonya for listening and acting promptly. :thumbsup: Yep, BACME are a complete waste of our time and lives. Sooner they are left in the dust of history, the better.
  13. Sean

    Latent profile analysis of biopsychosocial measures in older patients with (un)explained persistent somatic symptoms 2024 Bos et al

    Integrated care is recommended when treating persistent somatic symptoms in later life, regardless of the (un)explained origin of the symptoms. BPS for everything.
  14. Sean

    Side-effect expectations are associated with disability, physical fitness, and somatic symptoms 3 months after post-COVID... 2024 Salzmann et al

    +1 It's ridiculous, isn't it. The actual outcomes seem to make no difference at all to their 'reasoning', the explanation/conclusion they come up with is always 'more BPS'.
  15. Sean

    Association between childhood abuse and risk of post-COVID-19 conditions: Results from three large prospective cohort studies, 2024, Vyas et al.

    And that increase in risk was for severe childhood trauma. If they are only getting a weak generic effect for the severe end of the abuse spectrum, there is unlikely to be a stronger effect for the more moderate-mild end of that spectrum. At the population level none of this is of much...
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