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    UK Government Delivery Plan for ME/CFS, published 22nd July 2025

    well, this is what keeps happening Elon Musk's rockets, but apparently blowing up is part of the effort at progress. I just think "rubber-stamping" is really too strong a term here. If that's considered "weird," so be it.
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    UK Government Delivery Plan for ME/CFS, published 22nd July 2025

    i agree. I wouldn't call it rubber-stamping.
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    Sarah-Jayne Lewis - Coroner's report (trigger warning)

    This is a good point. More clinics are not needed if they are unhelpful or harmful. It's a bit like that old joke: "The food in that restaurant is terrible." "Yeah, and the portions are so small."
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    Chronicity rhetoric in health and welfare systems inhibits patient recovery: a qualitative, ethnographic study of fibromyalgia care, 2025, Cupit

    https://virology.ws/2025/07/18/trial-by-error-oxford-scholars-blame-biomedical-research-hegemony-for-fibromyalgia-chronicity-rhetoric/
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    Contemporary positive signs of functional limb weakness in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: an exploratory analysis…, 2025, Osada et al.

    Ha! Well, I guess I won't ask you to sign a letter to BMJ!!! As usual, I will take your points under advisement. I am not immune to being wrong, obviously.
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    Contemporary positive signs of functional limb weakness in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: an exploratory analysis…, 2025, Osada et al.

    https://virology.ws/2025/07/15/trial-by-error-study-finds-signs-of-functional-limb-weakness-in-patients-not-reporting-actual-limb-weakness/
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    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    gay hook-up apps tend to have a "woof" function--like if you "woof" someone, that means you think they're a hottie. hopefully that is not what Garner means by it.
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    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    Yeah, I saw. I responded to him here:
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    Contemporary positive signs of functional limb weakness in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: an exploratory analysis…, 2025, Osada et al.

    and what would be the identified "positive clinical signs" for fatigue to be an FND anyway?
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    Contemporary positive signs of functional limb weakness in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: an exploratory analysis…, 2025, Osada et al.

    I don't understand the business of checking for functional limb weakness and finding 100 with positive signs when only 24 of the subjects reported actual limb weakness. And only 16 of those had positive signs. So 84 of those found to have positive signs did not report having limb weakness, but...
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    News from The Netherlands

    https://virology.ws/2025/07/07/trial-by-error-interview-with-dutch-journalist-sander-zurhake/
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    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    I think it does matter if it's clear that someone's story itself doesn't hold water according to their own timeline. Of course an anecdotal account is meaningless, but an anecdotal account that can't be true is even more meaningless. Whether he is best ignored is a separate question.
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    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    yeah, I assume that's me. Does anyone know or remember which month he was already walking 5K, and when he had his phone call with the unnamed Norwegian doctoral student?
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    A Medical Student Curriculum on Functional Medical Disorders 2025 Butt et al

    I've never quite understood the distinction between inconsistent/incongruent with known neurological disease. Can you clarify?
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    A Medical Student Curriculum on Functional Medical Disorders 2025 Butt et al

    The fourth reference is an error that needs to be corrected. It says these disorders account for 10% of the total NHS budget. The relevant study, which is itself a problem, said it was 10% of NHS expenditures on working age people. That's about 3% of the total NHS budget. Several papers had to...
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    Australia: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC): Development of ME/CFS guidelines

    The first article on elearning actually cites the new NICE guideline as supporting multidisciplinary care without mentioning that it bars GET and makes clear that CBT is only supportive and not curative. They're conflating PACE-CBT with regular CBT, as they always do. They also posit that...
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    News from Australia

    Yes, they're more or less the same person, except Lloyd has better hair and teeth.
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