I wonder if its not more the trap of begging the question, which is very similar to circular reasoning. If they presume they are right, then the...
What happened to the deliberate use of invalid statistical analysis, with knowledge that it was biased? (Rhetorical question) How about...
If we changed fatigue in the title of this paper to pain or depression, it would highlight the confusion. Depression, for example, is not a...
Actually it started in 1970 with the PhD thesis that ME is mass hysteria and McEvedy and Beard.
Nothing in any criteria will change it either. There are factors beyond ME criteria pushing this. Opposition to ME as a label took off after 1970,...
I support the IOM report as a tool for politics, despite its scientific flaws due to methodological complications. This does not mean I support...
Simpler is probably better clinically, but if researchers cannot handle complex criteria they should change professions.
No, it cannot, not if its applied accurately. The issue here is the same as the issue with fatigue ... doctors too often treat it based as a...
The ICC is the most recent and up-to-date research criteria we have. It needs detailed exclusions to maintain cohort homogeneity. SEID is a...
https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Amolak_Bansal
I am looking at it but I think it was several years after this, maybe 2016, and dealt with beta cortisol receptors specifically as part of the...
@Jonathan Edwards is right that its large doses of cortisol that suppress immune function. Lower levels might actually enhance immune function....
I think we need to be clear that what Ron Davis has found, while possibly from a parasite, is more likely to be from things that cause the same...
Yes. For example, a rare parasitic worm seems to have travelled throughout the world due to Vietnam military veterans coming home. Parasites can...
Also, can someone please remind them that some ME patients do not have chronic fatigue, they have energy deficits and many other symptoms. Fatigue...
[Satire/Sarcasm] Next on the agenda, education camps for the entire population?
Ditto. If by upright you include sitting, I would probably exceed the norm, reaching 23 hours some days, but more generally about the norm of 17...
Its always been this one. Our lobby groups are only now attaining some political influence, and its still slow and in the early days. They will...
Please add physical mutilation and mass deaths. Psychiatry is the most appalling of all medical branches when viewed across history. Physical...
Yes, I have been saying this for some years. Some of us are anxious about going out and about for example. Its not phobia either. Its experience....
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