A fairy tale. The Narrative Rules All. An entire profession, even. (With some honourable exceptions.)
Do we know this? Otherwise, I agree.
Wessely....
It is becoming so. ME/CFS was just the trial run for them to test out how far they could get away with it. Turns out it was quite a long way, and...
Well said, @Nightsong. They are utterly disingenuous and self-serving, from start to finish.
For ME/CFS at least, the psycho-behavioural crowd crossed that bridge very early on, IMHO.
There is a growing scientific controversy And people like you are going to make damn sure there is.
Yes, they just elide straight over that critical bit, making sure to never examine the possibility that patients' reluctance to push through PEM...
And as an excuse to not look for any.
Yes, patients need to be a lot more careful about we wish for. Something is not always better than nothing.
And mine. Even if some form of carefully titrated exercise is safe and can help reduce long-term secondary consequences of ME/CFS (mainly...
This demonstrates the one thing I think AI is good for, big improvements in efficiency at dealing with large datasets. But I seriously doubt that...
Including ME/CFS within RECOVER’s scope is not just an opportunity — it’s an imperative. Hard agree. Even if ME/CFS & LC turn out not to be...
Few things in this world need tearing down more than the parasitic and corrupting for-profit peer-review journals.
Which, presumably, is why they pushed Peter Gøtzsche out, as his work on stuff like placebo effect sizes and problems with unblinded subjective...
Results Of the 704 patients analyzed, 71.9% were female with a median age of 54 years (IQR: 45–64). Cardio-LC patients had statistically...
Fucking savages. :mad:
Any time somebody in authority uses the word 'feel' they are avoiding responsibility.
I smell a Streisand effect coming on.
Yes, interesting double standard: Subjective self-report from patients is adequate to claim therapeutic benefit, including in the absence of...
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