This claim is technically correct, but completely ignores the underlying reasons why evidence is ranked. In every ranking I have seen, anecdotal...
They used a modified protocol that had a known bias. This bias shows up if you check by using multiple tests. Funny they didn't do that.
Confirmation, or verificationism, was very big in nineteenth century science. Most areas of science had abandoned it by 1960 or so.
The hallmark of pseudoscience is the use of persuasive reasoning over the use of scientific evidence and sound reasoning. This has been dubbed...
Anecdotal evidence is the lowest rank of evidence in Evidence Based Medicine. Ignoring for now the massive and growing problems with EBM, this...
A yeast model is one way to fast screen chemicals. It would be far faster and cheaper than, for example, mice. Once you have candidates though you...
That is why you need specific testable mechanisms. Homeostasis is just a term for set points and feedback and feedforward loops in a complex...
Yeah, love both those books. I was frequently in contact with Angela at the time.
I was discussing the general concept of homeostasis failure about CFS in the 90s, and probably mentioned it a few times on Phoenix Rising. To be...
There does appear to be more than a bit of zeal for sure.
I do not believe that they necessarily believe in their ideas. They do believe they can get away with their claims if they take certain strategies...
For a more philosophical overview, try -...
Yes, tick-box mentality. There is a danger in substituting bureaucracy for science and reason.
Psychobabble loves GIGO as a methodology. This is why I proposed BIBO, but it never took off. Babble in, babble out. Of course the issue in much...
I have been in agreement with this line of thinking for maybe nine years. I was working on background reading on this kind of thing when my...
It took me nearly 20 years to get over severe muscle pain with these problems, and only after I learned a lot more about pacing.
In much of the world it would be considered a functional neurological disorder. Hysteria. Psychogenic. In other words, a psychobabble diagnosis....
Yet the psychs did. :wtf: Edit - what @chrisb said.
That is correct. Not everyone infected with the virus will get the disease we call Covid-19. According to WHO the current number of novel...
"To some extent, it's going to depend on how disabling long Covid turns out to be, and for how many people? Are we looking at a really serious big...
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