ME papers are unlike others. The "research" that shows how good GET is needs very careful examination for things that are not usually encountered...
One of the things we have had problems with is that the oversight bodies for research all seem to have very narrow remits. I am too ill to go into...
Do they actually listen to themselves? That sentence makes no sense. Infections represent risk factors for damage to the body. You get polio, it...
If infection can cause a lasting hyperglycaemia and insulin resistance then maybe the global incidence of diabetes is not just down to obesity and...
Not long into the first lockdown the New Scientist had an article about the preparations needed for the next epidemic. For a host of reasons, from...
Merged thread - re children being severely affected It is worrying that there have been 10 children hospitalised in Scotland with covid in the...
I automatically judge the institutions that support BPS work. Their reputations are damaged beyond repair to me.
Why do we need an exercise plan? This shows the embedded implicit idea that we are ill because we don't exercise instead of the basic fact we...
I don't have enough knowledge to have a view on immune issues, I defer to those who understand better. However it is not safe to assume previous...
What about the drug for arthritis that was banned because less than a hundred people worldwide were badly affected? I cannot believe that GET is...
The US patient group decided to do a survey a while back where they asked people what their weight was. It was meaningless as they did not ask...
How could the ones who achieved 10000 steps a day be classes as sedentary? More and more, I do not think that sedentary people are good controls...
Moderate cases often can't work either. I tried working a couple of times but I could only manage a few days before I was in bed for a few days...
It would also be dodgy if there was a committee set up to examine racism and none of the members were black. As other people have said any experts...
Could someone with a BPS background please give me a scientific explanation of the biological pathways by which being female causes pain.
Another massive disappointment. Where are the people who have been fighting for a proper review? I am not convinced that there is anyone on this...
I couldn't find a throwing up icon. I once had to argue with a friend who felt Ben Goldacre was doing great work and now we have Horton. What...
An objective look at someone with ME would see that they are very sick so something is going wrong in their body - they have a disease even if the...
It always amazes me that they feel "Functional Somatic Symptoms (FSS) are physical symptoms that cannot be attributed to underlying pathology."...
I was getting bad muscle cramps at one time. Coincidently, a relative was taking up jogging at the time and spoke about having to warm muscles up...
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