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Wow. The effect isn’t as persuasive as the recent paper showing a causal association between EBV and MS but still.

At the end of the day, you can waffle your way through questionnaires that have nothing to do with the core symptoms of the illness but you can’t wish yourself into being able to do more.

I was about to say “this has been known for decades in PTSD” and then I clicked on the link and saw it was indeed from 2003.

Yep. Harms are reformulated as another diagnosis or reframed as the patient being mentally ill. Voila, my treatment is harmless and has a 100% efficacy rate. Recall how Crawley rediagnoses severe/very severe ME patients who get worse with activity as pervasive refusal syndrome. My local...

The studies claiming that have huge dropout rates.

So much for anxiety about standing.

Rigidity, perfectionism. The usual slander against us.

Agreed. I’ve been railing against these people being allowed to call themselves Dr for years. I’ve seen clinical psych doctorates (in non-ME/CFS areas) that were literally based on 10 people interviewed in a focus group. It’s really harmful. It’s especially irritating when I think back on the...

That’s a DClinPsych thesis. Generally they are of a much lower standard than a real PhD. Clinical psychology professional doctorates are mostly coursework and placements.

Need to be careful with half-baked diagnoses of depression by GPs. Mood swings that occur from hour to hour or day to day have nothing to do with clinical depression.

Moved post That's what PhD students and postdocs are for. No one expects the project lead to sit there drafting papers. I'm sorry but the reasons that the OMF offers to the general public for doing things the wrong way make no sense. Maybe they are trying to appeal to the unconventional...

Good point. He probably also believes that MH conditions aren't real/disabling.

He should get sued by everyone whose claim he has assessed.

Very weak article overall. When skeptics point out that FND symptoms look exactly like what you see in someone feigning those symptoms, all they can point to are n=10 sorts of functional neuroimaging studies and the clinical impression that’s it’s hard to fake symptoms for many years and have it...

That’s really disturbing. Implies they are covering up negative results.

Whatever happened to the replication study Naviaux was doing years ago as a follow up to his 2016 metabolomics paper? It’s been 10 years or radio silence so it’s safe to assume the findings did not replicate even after years of torturing the data.

This is exactly what POTS isn’t. Has this genius even bothered to look up diagnostic criteria?

I don’t have any specific links but it has been known for decades that schizophrenia risk is increased by maternal flu in early pregnancy. Knowing that something has an immune cause doesn’t imply the solution is immune treatment. An immune trigger can apparently set off a chain of events that...

There’s no rat model for CFS.

When you’re biased and filled with hate and prejudice, it’s easy to convince yourself that even the most blatantly physical problems like POTS are due to anxiety. I’m sure everyone remembers that crazy paper from a few months ago where they argued it was fear of standing.