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How the NHS can save even more money - give the patients nothing. All you have to do beforehand is convince them that nothing is better than something. So butter them up with a few well-placed TV progs, and make them feel all clever when they walk into their GP's saying "I insist on one of those...

Ah yes, I remember that, which is why I did so much sport until I got ME. Imagine my surprise when I found out that it simply wasn't true any more once I had ME. In fact I was so surprised I thought "this can't be right", and I kept trying to make sport work it's usual magic for me, and ME just...

Well that's a fine way to start my Sunday morning.

For a long time it was very frustrating that nobody, in a roomful of such bright people, thought to ask "Why, if that woman is so proudly standing up for science, has she got a big circle drawn around her feet?" So it's particularly satisfying to see her nose so thoroughly rubbed in it by...

When I was diagnosed I was told that there's no cure than there's nothing they can do for me. I was extremely impressed.

Ok come on own up, which one of you posed for the picture on the front cover? Calls it CFS/ME (always makes me nervous) quotes Fukuda criteria in the executive summary at the beginning. Oh good, only one more year to go then for me. I was reading through this and thought it was making some...

I'm trying to distinguish between Esther Crawley's prevelance numbers and Rachel Hunter's cost of ME numbers. Both are shockingly large numbers which could be used for advocacy, but we'll have no truck with EC's number (Ron Davis was very quickly corrected by us when he referred to it), and are...

Here's a conundrum that's been exercising my mind. I'm interested in what others think. I accept that it's important to make the argument about the health costs of ME - both in terms of the costs to society (lost productivity rather than costs of non-existent or harmful treatment, which appear...

Just watched the whole thing - originally to count all the "kind of"s (two in the first 20 seconds), "actually"s, "obviously"s, "err"s, but I got bored with that. Seems to be a summary of 6 poor quality studies (two by McCrone, one of which is from 2003 with 44 patients). The fact that the...

I put her misinterpretation down to sloppiness and lack of attention to detail, especially after she referred to us as "ME Science, a kind of discussion blog ..." (as an aside, I'll be back to teaching students how to give presentations next Monday, and will include such tips as don't overuse...

This thread has been split from the CMRC conference thread here. See also the MEA Summary page 9. Well I do think many of us (myself included) are hiding from healthcare because we can do without the patronizing abuse which is all many health-care providers seem to have to offer, and I also...

It's actually to make theft easier so that Bayer gets more orders from companies whose employees nick stuff.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/94046/why-there-huge-cotton-ball-my-aspirin-bottle

I've done some googles: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/aspirin-asprins.1771200/ https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-plural-of/aspirin.html https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aspirin

Well that's not true - politicians take them very seriously and go straight to them for all their data needs. Need to back up a new policy with data? Throw a few million at some psychologists, they'll never let you down.

The great thing about plummeting it's one of those tasks where no memory or concentration is required, it's one of the few things ME sufferers can do just as well as everyone else. Surprised there hasn't been a study on it.

Are you saying that you are not sure you could manage to land if you jumped out of an airplane? I'm pretty sure you would land eventually, even if you exerted no effort at all.

I think there was a thread in which the amounts that are known to have been contributed to PACE by various parties were added up and didn't come very near to 5m, so the questions arises where the rest came from. If the 5m figure originated from the PACE authors, "plucked out of the air" is as...

Sounds like the Wessely approach. Details and committing yourself can be so tiresome.

Is the only source of the 5 million figure the PACE authors? I can't help thinking that if the number is true, it will be the first reliable and accurate number they've ever given for anything. They could have inflated it or deflated it for any number of reasons (inflating and deflating numbers...