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The woke protocols o_O I guess at least he makes it clear where he is coming from, what is prejudices are. I find the use of 'woke' in a critique a pretty reliable flag that the critique is drivel and political from the ground up.

I am in this camp. Among other reasons I don't believe the profession has the technical and personal understanding or capacity to deal with the extreme levels of secondary trauma inflicted upon us by the profession itself. With the usual honourable individual exceptions.

Some – and more than a handful – of the abstracts even contradict themselves. Typically something like 'we did not find a significant result, but will recommend psycho-behavioural interventions anyway'. Nope. Right on the money. The BPS gang had a huge propaganda win when they got the name...

This.

What could possibly go wrong?

I have two different masks. One I use for short term use (<hour or so, e.g. shopping), the other for longer term (more comfortable). Both are P2/N95 standard.

Heterogeneity is going to remain a significant confounder until we get some good biomarkers to help reveal any sub-groups and generally clarify diagnostic criteria.

Dear NIH, et al, staff, Protect the records and data. That will be the key to rebuilding the institutions after the disaster.

Leaving aside the aesthetics of it, as I understand it the research shows that carrying a bit of extra weight is not a significant health risk if your diet is good, you are not a smoker, drink low or no amount of alcohol, have no major genetic risks, and get some regular exercise. Not talking...

I have managed to avoid Covid so far, assuming I have not had an asymptomatic case. And I plan to go right on not having it. Including masking up whenever mixing with the public, to the extent I can. Difficult when in the dentist's chair, for example.

Yep. My heart sank – again – as I read those quotes. :grumpy:

With the caveats in my previous comment in mind: I do agree that PPI is something we have to engage with as robustly as possible. In principle it is worth a serious go. Done right it can deliver real benefits. At the very least it needs to give us a much better pathway for raising concerns...

Same kind of problem as calling neurochemical modifiers 'anti-depressants'. They typically have much broader effects than that, e.g. Amitriptyline for reducing pain and stabilising sleep.

I am all for reform of the NIH, et al, and their equivalents in every country. They have not served us well, to put it politely. But it does not follow that this guy is the right person for the job. Nor even that anybody the incoming administration will choose is going to be. Be careful we...

I also have mixed feelings about PPI. It is potentially a good thing, and has proved to be in some cases. But the required level of knowledge and understanding of broader science, and trial methodology in particular, plus understanding how the politics of it all works, is high. If the trained...

At every opportunity, for decades.

Do you mean the PACE Trial Identifier? See attached file.

At a time in human history where infectious diseases have their greatest opportunity ever to emerge and spread globally. He helped convince Samoans and Tongans not to vaccinate against measles. Result: 83 people dead in Samoa, and more than 70 in Tonga, in less than a year, from one of the most...

If this claim is true, then surely the best way to deal with FND, etc, is for everybody, including the 'experts', to never talk about it, and deny it even exists. Or at the very least to downplay it as much as possible. You certainly don't want to be writing books about it and going on...

Important variable. Sometimes a drink or two can be fine, at least at the time of drinking. It has the normal expected pleasant effects. At other times it feels unpleasant pretty quickly, within maybe 10 min. The 'poisoned' sensation, as it were.