Very interesting.
It’s remarkable that the authors don’t consider, not even for a moment, that this could be anything other than suggestibility. What if FND is...
Pretty conclusive evidence of these antibodies not being the cause of our symptoms. The fact that this test is being sold to patients is a...
I suspect there is little to no outright fraud in CFS research because they know their work tends to be scrutinised with a fine tooth comb. They...
Stumbled on this old paper on nonepileptic seizures (FND) and tilt table test. Head-up tilting is a useful provocative test for psychogenic...
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So true. Any language such as complex, multifactorial etc is a HUGE red flag. It means “needs psych referral”.
The issue with this paper is that you have to accept the premise that pts with ME/CFS have beta adrenergic autoantibodies. This is frequently...
Unfortunately these words don’t mean anything. They don’t add up to a coherent scientific mechanism.
That quote shocked me too. Since nothing is known about mechanisms of FM and Long Covid I wonder if he meant to say that even in the hypothetical...
The abstract is amazing in its deception. There was no significant time x group interaction on any outcome measure. This is the relevant result in...
Looks like another scam.
Sure, let’s say you have two groups, patients and controls, and you're interested in whether they differ on some outcome you're measuring in your...
In statistics, an effect size is a number measuring the strength of the relationship between two variables in a population...
Yep. From the outset they are weeding out people who aren't suggestible by using prescreening questionnaires, looking for people who are high in...
Going in an randomly editing parts of the genome will probably end up having lots of unintended consequences, such as maiming and killing ppl.
There is no evidence that any treatment improves symptoms of FND.
That’s the part I’m struggling with. I automatically assume that any paper in this field has a 99.9% chance of not being replicable. But unless...
Thanks for sharing this harrowing experience, Parsnip. It’s very difficult to speak about informed consent or free will once treatments like this...
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