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    Incidence and Prevalence of Post-COVID-19 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Report from the Observational RECOVER-Adult Study, 2024, Vernon +

    Made a Twitter summary with comments here: [MEDIA] https://bsky.app/profile/mecfsskeptic.bsky.social/post/3lfnfst3mev2u 1) The RECOVER study...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 13, 2025 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    Incidence and Prevalence of Post-COVID-19 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Report from the Observational RECOVER-Adult Study, 2024, Vernon +

    What the paper doesn't really discuss is that the rate of ME/CFS in the acute-infected - 73 of 4,515 (1.6%) - was much lower than in the...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 13, 2025 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    Donating and fundraising by people with ME/CFS - discussion thread

    I think the main reasons are: 1) Many ME/CFS patients are not diagnosed yet. Other have received other diagnoses such as chronic Lyme, POTS,...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 13, 2025 in forum: Fundraising
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    Relationship between major depressive disorder and [ME/CFS]: a two-sample mendelian randomization study analysis, 2025, Zhu et al

    Ok thanks, that's useful to know.
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 13, 2025 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    What do we mean by a diagnosis like ME/CFS?

    I would argue that the causal path is valuable for researchers, and an indication of what treatment to use is useful for doctors, but for patients...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 13, 2025 in forum: Diagnostic Criteria and Naming Discussions
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    Relationship between major depressive disorder and [ME/CFS]: a two-sample mendelian randomization study analysis, 2025, Zhu et al

    Thanks a lot @forestglip and @Nightsong Will send a message to the authors asking for a clarification. Let's hope it just some minor error that...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 13, 2025 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    Relationship between major depressive disorder and [ME/CFS]: a two-sample mendelian randomization study analysis, 2025, Zhu et al

    Trying to understand where they extracted the data from. The paper refers to reference 8, a meta-analysis by Howard et al. 2019 of the three...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 12, 2025 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    Relationship between major depressive disorder and [ME/CFS]: a two-sample mendelian randomization study analysis, 2025, Zhu et al

    This seems like quite an important study. Hopefully, it will get some more discussion and analysis. @Jonathan Edwards @Simon M @Chris Ponting...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 11, 2025 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    EU: News from the European ME Coalition (EMEC)

    Important update from the European ME Coalition: The results of the Horizon Europe call on high-burden, under-researched conditions have been...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 11, 2025 in forum: News from organisations
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    Relationship between major depressive disorder and [ME/CFS]: a two-sample mendelian randomization study analysis, 2025, Zhu et al

    Yes, hard to see how misdiagnosis would bias the results towards no association, I would expect rather the opposite. It also seems that the...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 7, 2025 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    Relationship between major depressive disorder and [ME/CFS]: a two-sample mendelian randomization study analysis, 2025, Zhu et al

    I suspect it refers to lifetime diagnosis, not prevalence. EDIT: the study it refers to writes: The Epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder:...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 7, 2025 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    Bruce Wampold: How psychotherapy works / The dodo bird verdict

    Thanks for sharing. Doesn't seem to be much consideration that all three interventions may be losers rather than winners.
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 4, 2025 in forum: Trial design including bias, placebo effect
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    Bruce Wampold: How psychotherapy works / The dodo bird verdict

    Thanks, had a look at and it mostly argues that because common and specific effects are correlated, it is incorrect to say how much % of the...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 4, 2025 in forum: Trial design including bias, placebo effect
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    Bruce Wampold: How psychotherapy works / The dodo bird verdict

    Anyone know recent publications on this: does the conclusion still hold? Most papers discussing seem to be more than 10 years old. I found this...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 4, 2025 in forum: Trial design including bias, placebo effect
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    How to prove that your therapy is effective, even when it is not: a guideline, 2015, Cristea & Cuijpers

    There's also a commentary on this paper by Ioannidis but is mostly shows that he doesn't get the basic things right:...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 4, 2025 in forum: Research methodology news and research
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    Should we change our name: 'ME/CFS Skeptic'?

    Thanks Trish and the S4ME Committee, much appreciated. We will think about it some more and take our time to decide. Perhaps do a poll with the 4...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Jan 1, 2025 in forum: General ME/CFS news
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    Artificial intelligence in medicine and science

    I'm not quite sure how your system works but regarding cherry picking it depends on how many findings it predicts, for example if there are...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Dec 31, 2024 in forum: Other health news and research
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    Should we change our name: 'ME/CFS Skeptic'?

    Thanks for all the useful comments and suggestions! Very much appreciate all your help. We still prefer a short and neutral name such as ME/CFS...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Dec 30, 2024 in forum: General ME/CFS news
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    Open personal letter to the trustees of the UK ME Association, December 2024

    Thanks for writing this. I hope the problems with the ME Association will get sorted.
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Dec 30, 2024 in forum: Open Letters and Replies
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    What are the most interesting ME/CFS-studies of 2024?

    We've written a blog post highlighting the most interesting ME/CFS studies of 2024:...
    Thread by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Dec 29, 2024, 9 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS news
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