For once it's good to see SW get a mention.
Well said.
Beat me to it!
Something like this scale is not just subjective in its usage, its whole development is subjective, from its conception onwards. Coming up with...
Nonetheless, Chalder is probably right - that no doubt is why it has been used so much. The implication being that true validity of such an...
Yes, there has to be much more going on.
Like ... ensuring objective outcomes are specified and retained, in order to sort the wheat from the chaff? It is, I think, the...
"Additionally, clinical experience has demonstrated the presence of anger in the patient group towards staff." Why could that possibly be be I...
Exactly. All the right ingredients a scientific measure could ever possibly want.
I can only access the abstract at that link, but can get to full article here: https://sci-hub.wf/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.08.009
This is the only reference I can find to that, but thought there was a bit more somewhere:...
I think I have read somewhere, or maybe it was in an interview of his, how describes coming up with it in an afternoon, or something very akin to...
This does not surprise me in the slightest. I've thought since first encountering this notion, that it is dangerously naive to assume it valid to...
I think @IanMcPhee will be interested.
Agreed. But the more and more sound evidence that emerges of biomedical cause(s), the more and more fantastical and ludicrous the psych arguments...
Yes, the only thing that will finally shut (most of) them up is when a truly unarguable biological cause is found why ME/CFS leads to an abnormal...
That is one hell of a contagion rate.
From somewhere the sun doesn't shine I think. Probably as clear an indication as any that they conflate chronic fatigue - any fatigue - with...
I think that is misunderstanding what he is saying. He is not saying the afflicted person is cowardly for having caught the virus. He is using...
I think they might be a bit puzzled by what they can sensibly do next ... :rolleyes: ;)
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