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  1. Arnie Pye

    The Science Fiction of Medical Quackery: Ray Bradbury's “Skeleton”, 2020, Smith and Stone

    I don't know who that woman is who waves at the side of the screen but she is driving me nuts. Does anyone know how I could get rid of that side panel?
  2. Arnie Pye

    3 day fasting to reset immune system

    I didn't invent the phrase it was one I read when I first looked up the meaning of the word "autophagy". I'm not suggesting that I think fasting is healthy or a good idea or a bad idea. I can't get past the idea that people will end up in a state of having extremely low vitamins and minerals...
  3. Arnie Pye

    Article: The hidden links between mental disorders

    Being stressed, for any reason whatsoever, causes an increase in stress hormones, cortisol and adrenaline. This is an adaptive response that would happen to anyone and everyone and has helped humans to stay alive. If the stress does not reduce because it is something the sufferer can't control...
  4. Arnie Pye

    3 day fasting to reset immune system

    I know this is just anecdotal, but the person shown in this link seems to have managed to get his body to start "eating itself" and recycling excess skin. https://www.dietdoctor.com/with-one-foot-in-the-grave-robert-turned-it-around-and-lost-200-lbs I've seen other amazing results in people...
  5. Arnie Pye

    The biology of coronavirus COVID-19 - including research and treatments

    Interesting suggestion in this Twitter thread... Apparently measuring levels of covid19 in sewage gives a week of warning about an upsurge in cases to come. https://twitter.com/BrennanSpiegel/status/1265119535901732865
  6. Arnie Pye

    Academic publishing: a discussion

    Merged thread A short article on peer review ‘Nothing like what the public think it is’: Peter Ridd on the truth about climate change and ‘peer review’ Edit : The article doesn't actually mention climate change, it only discusses peer review...
  7. Arnie Pye

    Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

    An interesting report on how coronavirus spread through a hospital in South Africa from the first sufferer who went through their doors. Study tells ‘remarkable story’ about COVID-19’s deadly rampage through a South African hospital And the report the above article was based on. Report into a...
  8. Arnie Pye

    INIM (NSU Institute for Neuro-immuneMedicine) webinar - 'Understanding ME/CFS Today: A Clinical & Research Approach' May 2020

    Dry nose may occur in Sjogren's Disease. Other possible symptoms in Sjogren's are dry skin, dry mouth, dry eyes and dry ears. Arthritis can occur because of dry joints. I'm sure there are other symptoms, but the ones I've mentioned are all I can remember off the top of my head. Edit : There is...
  9. Arnie Pye

    Do Women With Severe Persistent Fatigue Present With Fatigue at the Primary Care Consultation?, 2020, olde Hartman et al

    Just out of interest I clicked on each name in the first quote box in post #1. The first three names only returned the paper shown in post #1. The fourth name returned 8545 results. I'm not sure what this is telling me!
  10. Arnie Pye

    Chronic pain syndromes and other persistent functional somatic symptoms, 2020, Roenneburg et al

    I do envy the people who write this garbage. They've clearly never experienced severe pain that goes on and on and on, that nobody believes in and for which no treatment is forthcoming. It must be nice to be in that situation.
  11. Arnie Pye

    Blog: A totally useless therapy for benign and malign conditions – where is the difference? - Edzard Ernst

    I've been told by some doctors that my self-treatment of various problems with vitamins and minerals is "alternative medicine" and therefore what I'm doing is nonsense designed to drain the contents of my wallet. This encompasses things like : 1) Wanting to keep my B12 level high because I...
  12. Arnie Pye

    Covid-19 - Psychological research and treatment

    From the quote in post #68 : "The cohort was predominantly female (85%)" I thought that men were the worst sufferers of severe Covid-19? A community cohort study was conducted with adults aged ≥18 years recruited through a mainstream and social media campaign There must have been something...
  13. Arnie Pye

    Covid-19 - Psychological research and treatment

    Homeopaths almost certainly do less damage than IAPT, CBT and blaming everything on MUS, so I'd be happier with the homeopaths.
  14. Arnie Pye

    Why health anxiety needs to be recognised in hospital practice, 2020, Tyrer

    Reference for the above : Nimnuan C, Hotopf M, Wessely S. Medically unexplained symptoms: an epidemiological study in seven specialities. J Psychosom Res 2001;51:361–7. Is this reference the same one that @dave30th has debunked on several occasions?
  15. Arnie Pye

    Why health anxiety needs to be recognised in hospital practice, 2020, Tyrer

    This is why I don't go and see doctors unless my problem is actually visible. But, as you've found too, from experience I know that having a visible problem is no guarantee of getting appropriately treated or being treated with kindness or politeness.
  16. Arnie Pye

    Simon Wessely on Covid-19

    I've just been reading Dr Kendrick's latest blog : https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/05/16/food-bank-show-next-episode/ and as usual it is well worth reading. I also liked this comment on the blog by someone called Shaun Clark. It made me think of SW :
  17. Arnie Pye

    Simon Wessely on Covid-19

    Describing people as "fearful" in this context comes across as being derogatory. What in most people would be described as prudence or common sense under the circumstances is being given a derogatory label by SW and I can only assume that this is deliberate.
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