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I wonder who on earth authored that drivel. The fact that the Lancet published it is revealing.

I have three such speckles on my forefinger this morning. I was about to take a photo and upload it, then I realised I would be putting a photo from which my fingerprint could be extracted on the internet so chickened out. Nothing in the cuticles around the nails. They come, stay a while (few...

I have exactly the same. They come and they go. My doctor told me they appear during times of stress. I think that means he doesn't know what they are. But really, my fingertips look exactly the same as that.

My ME started during a trip to England 4.5 years ago. I remember the exact moment - I was sitting in a pub drinking a pint of cider and felt a sharp pain in my throat. That hung around for a few days, I assumed it was an infection, then flu, then weeks of headaches and exhaustion, the rest is...

The patient recovers from the illusion that seeking help from the health service is in any way beneficial to their situation, and disappears.

None of those things are fixed points, especially not the lorry. Relative to how I'm standing before I get into it.

I keep my bed horizontal.

Shame they can't be sued for tying him to a chair. I find the thought of being leaned over by Simon Wessely for a bit of gentle persuasion deeply unsettling.

No, cfs_research can spell.

Welcome Peter Gordon, I have just processed your membership and you can post here now if you like.

Quite. No it wouldn't. The original paper, ie the original analysis, was a mass of uninterpretability, not the data itself. It is possible to interpret the data correctly, which is what the reanalyses did. Because there isn't one. We can leave the acknowledgement of the non-existent to the...

I've just read a whole load of cfs_research's tweets and unfortunately they can't be Michael Sharpe - not found one spelling mistake so far, and there were lots of words which Sharpe would have struggled with, especially when in a temper. Obviously a close associate, perhaps in communication...

I suspect he does that on purpose, so that afterwards he can claim to have said / not to have said anything / everything.

This perhaps? http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2011/04/84-of-british-neurologists-dont-view-cfs-as-a-neurological-illness-survey-results-discussed/ From 2011 (7 years ago, there's been some research progress since then), Authors from King's College, published in the Journal of Psychosomatic...

Oh, a survey. I really wish people would stop referring to a bunch of questions and opinions turned into numbers as "evidence" or "data", and using it to dismiss much higher quality evidence. And what does "did suggest" mean - did they all say ME is bollocks or didn't they, and how do they know...

He was obviously dictating the email from his private emergency submarine on the good ship PACE, and he didn't realise that the voice to text software was still running after he'd finished dictating his email.

That doesn't reflect my experience at all. I am a lot more sensitive to tiredness now than I was before I got ill, and I stop as soon as I notice it. Training myself not to go into exhaustion is an essential part of learning to pace, I have been forced to recognise it or suffer the consequences.

Great video at the top of the comments section, this guy is really onto Wessely. Guest appearance from a concerned Ben Goldman - plus a debate in which I heard Sir Simon's voice for the first time. I assumed he'd sound posher, and was surprised to hear him speak like the dodgy geezer he really...

That works for me, click on "Leave a Comment" and you can read all the comments. I wonder if the site owner would like the comments to be more visible than that and needs to change a setting?

A masterclass in classic Wessely techniques. Attempting to shut down coversation: Must dash / I'm busy / don't have time: "This isn't you James" (first noticed being used against James Coyne a few years ago I think): Nothing to see here, move along: Deliberate vagueness about facts...