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This.

I agree with this. It is an important relevant fact that might get more people's attention and support.

Recommendations to make assisted dying available are required. Significant difference in meaning. But still concerning.

Cochrane can whip up a mighty fine broth of words, but the taste of it is still shit.

Interesting coincidence of timing.

Regular exercise has long been a standard core recommendation in the Australian health system, and I would be very surprised if it was much different in the US, UK, Europe, or anywhere else. Same for (appropriate) dietary supplements, like calcium, folate, iron, etc. Along with a bunch of...

All subjective self-report. 95% CI, 4.3-14.2 That wide confidence interval on the primary outcome does not inspire confidence in the claimed result. Borderline result, at best. The nocebo effect (expectation of harm) is hugely powerful. Evidence required. And they will go right on doing it...

I think this is the real reason they canned the ME/CFS review. If they let that one get corrected properly it will have profound consequences for all psycho-behavioural reviews, as the whole field is corrupted by the same basic shitty pseudo-methodology. It is not even that much. They can only...

This.

Whatever shreds of doubt there were left about how utterly corrupted Cochrane have become by the psychosomatic cult, they have been completely removed. Gutless, dishonest, abusive hacks. Particularly cruel to do this just before Christmas.

It's like the lessons they are learning from NICE, et al, are how to avoid robust methodology and actually subjecting their claims to adequate testing.

Today I learned that the Dutch have a colony in the Caribbean. No reason why not, I guess. But for the usual accidents of history modern Australia might well have been speaking Dutch. Or French, Portuguese, or Spanish.

We don't. But apparently the medical profession seems hell bent on doing so.

That alone renders the conclusions dodgy, at best.

I get the sore dry throat too. Pretty much a permanent feature now. Plus sore and firm, and slightly enlarged glands, mainly on the left side for some reason. Maybe complete coincidence, but I had a manual prostate examination many years ago and the doctor said it was normal size but quite...

Wot they sed. And this.

I get annual bloods, and with the exception of ALP, they are nearly always normal. The exceptions have been triglycerides and fasting glucose, which have only been marginally high a couple of times each, and the more specific diabetes test has been negative on the two high glucose results. For...

Digging into the memory bank a bit, but I recall there is some evidence that the number of molecules in the saturated dairy fat chain is a significant factor. Specifically whether it is odd or even.

Although the cause(s) of ME/CFS remain unknown, it is obvious that its pathophysiology resides between the stress, immune, and nervous systems. Such unjustified certainty is why we have had so little progress, and so much regress in this field.

YRDWTGTDS - You Really Don't Want To Get This Disease Syndrome