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The flashing subtitles and constant cuts of post tiktok social media content is almost unwatchable to me.

I think it would be worthwhile to talk about the hypotheses or areas of investigation we find the most compelling. An offical S4ME list could perhaps be contentious and require a vote to make it fair, but at least in an informal fashion i think it would be a good idea.

It is puzzling. Have you reached out to Chris Ponting and asked him about it?

Is it possible that they want to be absolutely sure about this 'uncertainty' before releasing it? And because their funding period was coming to an end they decided to release the eight first while continuing analyses on HLA? I can understand the desire for a finding of that significance to be...

This reminds me that over at Phoenix Rising a couple years back a group of them got Peginterferon Lamda manufactured and tried it on themselves. Iirc there were very mixed results. Possibly not relevant as a different kind of interferon to alpha/beta/gamma but thought it was worth mentioning.

If the muscle finding is negative but we still think ifn signalling in the brain is a good bet, is there any way to check the brain that doesn't involve a theraputic experiment? Assume it will be tricky to get funding for one without that evidence.

Yes, I agree that's its not a great list. Its that problem of saying 'inflammation' when they mean immune system signalling of some sort. But my question was whether there had been a trial of ifn alpha-2a in ME/CFS patients in the past, and that was why it was in the list of discontinued...

Chris Ponting shared this list of potential on Bluesky earlier. its an NIHR list of potential MECFS and LC treatments. https://io.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Pipeline-for-ME_CFS_report-on-MInD-data.pdf In the list of discontinued treatments it means an agent called interferon alpha...

As good as that would be, we really need to be thinking and planning how to attract attention now not in 2-3 years when SequenceME is completed, if it gets funding.

This trial has been enrolling people for a while right? Does this imply they are seeing positive responses? Ofc they wouldn't know if it was drug or placebo at this point, but thats a big expansion and a big investment for RECOVER. Not that they have used their previous funding wisely...

Another thought: Would it be worthwhile to create a list of the hypotheses we think are worth pursuing, both by members here and by others? In a members only post or even a private group. We could then speculate on what experiments could be done to validate/falsify these hypotheses.

I think this depends on whether PrecisionLife replicate those findings in the DecodeME cohort, which they are in the process of doing or may have already done. But I am not a geneticist or even a scientist so take my answer with a grain of salt.

Agreed.

Incredible.

Yeah i vividly remember all the muscle i built from couch to 5k just melting away once i deteriorated.

I forsee this ending poorly...

Ah maybe it is just the political inconvenience of acknowledging it in kids.

Just like when they pretended kids weren't getting really sick with acute covid.

They are the ones that need behavioural support.

I strongly suspect they will be advising it's psychological in adults too.