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This.

I don't feel reassured by that statement.

This. Pacing certainly helped with an initial and welcome improvement, but I quickly hit a ceiling that has never gone away. Beyond that it mostly has just helped slow down the rate of deterioration. But it is still a very unsatisfactory outcome overall.

In that alone it is a clear improvement on most papers, which more typically document and promote the authors' interpretations and prejudices more than anything else.

:thumbup: The rise and rise of the psychosomatic cult is the greatest and cruelest catastrophe in modern medicine. If you can only get one message across in your film it is that patients are not the problem here. It is the medical profession, and broader governance, that have so grotesquely...

Relevance Deprivation Syndrome? They ran out of good ideas but can't handle being left behind, so start clinging to something, anything, no matter how ridiculous, just to keep them in the game and feeling important.

Interesting.

I think this is our greatest threat, that they manage to so impoverish and discourage biological research that it effectively stops. It is not clear that there is currently a sufficiently robust bio research stream that can withstand this relentless war on technical and ethical standards by the...

Into what? A psychodrama morality play? We could start selling badges/hats/coffee mugs/etc that say: I survived the psychosomatic cult.

But I'm a crowd-funded academic... So, you brazenly admit it? Have you no shame? :emoji_upside_down:

Not to mention very nasty and highly defamatory.

Ironically, for ME/CFS at least, it was Wessely who showed early on that hyperventilation was not a feature of the condition.

Yeah, this is not news. Though certainly good, necessary even, to have it specifically looked at in the ME/CFS context.

Always playing the underdog, both the victim and hero, despite being neither, is a standard propaganda technique.

Not to mention highly defamatory towards [checks notes] anybody who dares question the Great Man, but especially patients.

Big Pharma would never allow it. :speechless:

A useful reminder to anybody who thinks we are too strident or harsh in our criticism of cruel jokers like this. And they wonder why we hate them. Real mystery that.

:thumbup: Keep kicking them while you have the advantage.

I too see no reason to conclude they are different diseases. Could just as easily be due to different levels of severity.