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I agree that there are various causes of stuttering. I am referring to the common type that occurs from childhood known as stammering, which can be demonstrated to be due to brain events of the sort we call mind. Maybe that applies to being tired or having a stroke too. That may not be what is...

Perfect. Couldn't be better.

Very well put!!

It is a more consistent idea. It resolves all the problems with infinite gradients that Zeno and Leibniz pointed out bedevil the more intuitive approach.

I think Parmenides had got there and of course Plato with his cave and Leibniz with his well founded illusion. Kant merely said rather badly what others had said better, to my mind. But all that was said was that our idea of causation is just an idea of whatever it is an idea of. The intuitive...

Hume is a nice cuddly writer good for bedtime reading. However, his argument about causation doesn't really work, and perhaps more importantly has probably been misconstrued by almost all philosophers. Science accepts that we can never prove any account of causation to be 100% true as judged by...

The limping is real. Not sure what you mean by 'thing' though? Or why use this particular example?

It all depends on what 'psychosomatic' is taken to mean. In other words what mechanism is proposed? We have no understanding of the brain mechanisms that control behaviour at a level that allows scientific theories of complex behaviour control to be tested. So I am not sure anyone can say what...

I agree that understanding muscle physiology is of great interest. But @Snow Leopard, your comments above seem to miss the point of what I was trying to say. Of course dermatomyositis has lots of other symptoms but nobody would mistake a rash or pulmonary haemorrhage for ME. The point is that...

Dear @Hilda Bastian , I do not think you need to look at any studies to judge this piece of Cochrane output. It displays a complete lack of understanding of the problem. The writer clearly thinks that the fact that psychological therapies have been used for years gives them legitimacy. They...

Which finding are you worried about discarding? As I understand it straight CPET does not show a deficit in ME. The two day findings have been portrayed as related to PEM but PEM is feeling ill as I understand it, so not an issue of ability to do muscle work. My point is that even if there is...

"In fact I can definitively establish that. I have had an invasive CPET at Imperial that shows I have impaired systemic oxygen extraction to muscles. No oxygen=no ATP. This means my muscle cells cannot generate energy. This is in line with latest biomedical research into ME" I would be...

The risk of bleeding from NSAI like naproxen is very well documented going back to the 1980s - some of it based on NHS based population studies in the UK I think, but also elsewhere. The risk of stroke from Vioxx and diclofenac came up a bit later in the 1990s with the understanding of the roe...

I understand what you are saying Simon. But I fear that at this point in time it is likely to be more or less impossible to do any usefully controlled studies, for all sorts of logistic reasons. I think it will become clear what relation illness after Covid has to ME in due course but I'm not...

The Doctors Laboratory is I think what UCH uses. The unknown is to what extent things are quite the same for private routes. I have no idea.

Just having a name will do that. Why not talk about the problems people have after having had a covid infection. I can bet you that people are saying 'maybe I have got Long Covid', which of course means nothing at all, if you are right.

I think the situation is actually a bit back to from to that. Since around 1990 a high proportion of NHS services make use of commercial labs. My old hospital UCH uses a private service as far as I know. But these services have a reasonable level of quality control when providing to the NHS. I...

The consensus when I left practice was that if you are going to use a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory ibuprofen is the best choice. Diclofenac definitely has risks in terms of pro-clotting problems like stroke or heart attack and is not that different from some that were withdrawn (Vioxx etc.)...

Are we sure that Long Covid is a useful term. I am not yet. It seems to me a bit like 'problems after being in hospital' or 'problems after a fracture' - an administrative category more than anything. I wouldn't be that surprised if people recovering from something like cardiopulmonary bypass...

I can understand that but in my view if the GP recommends these tests it is up to them to provide them. We are being told that the NHS is continuing to provide a service despite Covid. But clearly you need to weigh up the situation for yourself. I cannot urge the detailed situation.