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"I have never had such a huge response to any hour that i've done... there is a big story here and there is an investigation that needs to happen." As I have been saying for years, there is a hell of a story here alright, one of the biggest in recent history. Just not the one the mainstream...

Me too. Unfortunately the patient community made it very clear at the time it was proposed that they strongly preferred ME. So here we are. :grumpy:

The best way to clear muddied waters is to simply stop stirring them up.

As to the name, ME/CFS is the least worst option on the table for now.

If not after all that, then what is it going to take? Is entrenched medical bigotry really going to win? Won't happen. There is no world in which Wessely will voluntarily give up being the centre of power and attention, and slip quietly into obscurity. It is simply not in his nature. He will be...

I agree that ME/CFS is inherently neither progressive nor fatal, if it is not mismanaged. And there's the rub.

Good start.

Look upon ye mighty works, O Psychosomatic Gurus, and its drearily predictable and appallingly cruel consequences for millions of sick, vulnerable, innocent patients. This is entirely your doing. You are the original cause of this catastrophe, and the ongoing roadblock preventing the urgent...

This. Psychosomatics, at least in its current form, has become a clear and present danger to all patients, and the entire health system. I wish I could get the rest of the health system to understand how much damage this crap is doing to their capacity to diagnose and treat promptly and...

https://thesicktimes.org/2024/09/27...ence-claims-in-their-intramural-me-cfs-paper/ Excellent article. Thanks, John. :thumbup:

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And they think we are the ones suffering from culturally generated perceptive disorders? They are lack of self-awareness personified.

It is important to protect oneself against blocked chimneys.

It is clear that a large chunk of the medical profession don't have a freaking clue about how much this FND lark is going to cost their reputations when the shit inevitably hits the fan.

Structural brain MRI features of patients with mixed FND were distinguishable from both healthy and psychiatric control participants, with subtype analyses showing high specificity (0.83) in accurately classifying individuals with functional motor disorder versus healthy controls. Again, if it...

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...

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.

This.

That is interesting.

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...