That doesn't seem reassuring - I mean where is test of public benefit [people with ME/CFS] for public money?
Unbelievable. Yea if what they are selling doesn't lead to improvement, measured by objective outcomes, then why give them the funding? As @Snow...
I think the GWAS study is a positive development - although I am bit frustrated that it's taken some time to get up and running. Also, there have...
Yea when you look at the amount of money spent on maintaining healthy, useful people (OK not to people with ME but potentially others) to "treat"...
Well why not blacken her name via social media --- particularly if she's competing to be PM --- EU has set up a scoping study into poorly...
@Arvo @Snow Leopard My impression is that folks who go for psychological interventions are told to stay away from physical explanations - I...
Agree e.g. friend works with common food pathogens (bacteria) and one of the students (working in the lab) was infected. So in reality accidents...
many CBT/GET practitioners would argue that this is beneficial regardless of how it was induced - But it's not a real benefit since it does not...
One answer is that they don't have family/friends who are affected by ME/CFS, so they don't care (was going to use another word). To them, this is...
Yea you're right Cultural pressure is one hell of a drug- politicians echoing what the audience wants i.e. to get elected/re-elected!
Since I don't follow this closely I'm really just guessing here. The NICE review has uncovered a pile of poo - poor quality psychological and/or...
Possibly another question - are the users of Cochrane actually answerable to anyone? After all if you base your decisions on unreliable data then...
Yea, you're supposed to read from a large dataset to (help) interpret the specific --- not the reverse! You would have thought that would have...
Don't really know because some cells rely on IDO1/2 and others do not --- not sure whether the effect would be to lower blood levels. EDIT -...
Not adding much here but Robert Phair's theory relates to intracellular [IDO2] conversion of tryptophan to kynurenine - not necessarily reflected...
Thank you for this Jonathan. I've been meaning to highlight that Chris Armstrong and Robert Phair are looking for bistabilities/traps in amino...
There's a Parliamentary (scrutiny) Committee - they have powers to calls "persons and papers" (roughly). So e.g. they can call senior officials in...
Where is the public funding coming from? It might be worth challenging the funding body --- is there a subjective [questionnaire] and an objective...
Scary --- if you look at the Newsnight program Garner was embarrassing. The two female scientists who were doing trials [presumably unblinded and...
Thanks @Caroline Struthers for doing this - I feel that I should be contacting my MP etc. --- talking to those who can influence. Again, I'm...
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