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Yea, I meant via TEDx. I thought it was too much to hope that the TEDx event organisers might have seen fit to lose the talk permanently.

Yea, but she's trying to paint a picture of threatening cyberstalkers watching her every move. Not much of a stalker this one, if s/he didn't even know Crawley's gender!

I just watched the clips that @JohnTheJack posted - thanks! It was every bit as bad as everyone said. But also not as good. She's just not very good as an orator. The talk is dull and she comes across as vague and waffly, the topic unclear. Something to do with kids and fatigue. I expect the...

Tip: click on the title in the graphic in Cheshire's email to access article. Thanks, @Cheshire, I read it all. Its very readable and incredibly funny! I like his description of the huge science publishing house Elsevier: Main message: worry not! Scihub will live on... and on... and on... in...

Yes, its going to be a series to promote the OMF.

You put it so nicely, @Diwi9. Sums up the conundrum we're in perfectly.

That's is the dark side of it all, right there, isn't it? Too much belief in mind over matter, then we start to see illness as the person's own fault. I've also had people ask me why I'm not still looking for cures. Like, why have I given up? You end up justifying yourself and trying to explain...

As a neuroscientist, I particularly strongly object to the misuse of terms like "brain" and "neural" in this type of stuff. They are used as more sciencey sounding substitutes for mind and mental activity. The person writing this stuff hasn't the first idea what goes on in the brain and what its...

This sort of cherry picking of the literature to fit a particular belief really makes me FURIOUS! I cannot believe this sort of thing is considered mainstream medicine. Imagine if you were trying to do a study of homeopathy, and you only cited the studies that supported your strong belief in its...

For anyone else who took as long as me to get this:

Wow, now's there's a pipe dream!

Haha, yea, if these "silver linings" are so positive, then they would definitely count as "secondary gains" from illness!! Really, I'm so SICK and TIRED of people judging us and trying to dictate how we should react to being chronically ill. Reactions to chronic illness will be as varied as...

Nice, @Hutan. At another one of the major NZ Universities, the Clinical Psychology programme now includes seminars on "Medical illnesses masquerading as psychological disorders", and also seminars on the problem of bias in psychotherapy research trials.

I thought the whole idea of positive psychology was as an antidote to "deficit-based" models in clinical psychology, where every problem is described in terms of what's lacking or what's going wrong. But if you start measuring individuals' degree of positivity - and making inferences about the...

Its nice to see the mud that the BPSers raked up over the JHP special issue is now kind of sticking to them. Otherwise, I don't see a whole lot to be grateful for there. Its just gossip and doesn't even explain what the PACE trial was about, let alone what the concerns are about it.

Yes, by challenging psycho-BS, we help many, not just ourselves. I would like to see: 1. An increase in the number of doctors who hesitate before suggesting some difficult symptom must be 'psychological'. 2. An increase in scepticism about "power of mind over body" claims in general 3...

Pass the sickbag....

So glad to see NZ associated with something other than Keith Petrie and Rona Moss Morris.

Yes, it is on public view. Its not in the "members only " section of the forum. So yea, might be an idea to delete anything you're not happy with. Sad to see your doggie avatar go. :(

@Trish, there must be another herbal thing that uses the same name. The one I'm talking about looks like this: You can see it has the name of the drug right there on the pack: Promethazine Hydrochloride (aka Phenergan). You buy it over the counter at Boots or Superdrug, or in lots of UK based...