If there is a concern about selection criteria, might I suggest trying to coordinate one response, politely explaining why patients have concerns...
Thanks, that would seem to give more statistical significance. We’ll have to await the data though.
In essence, the more things you test for then the higher the likelihood you'll find something that is just the result of random chance. Thus,...
I've thought for a while that the delay in PEM (for me, 24-36 hours generally) is closest in experience for a healthy person to an extreme form of...
I think one of the (many, many) problems I have with the 'does radiation cause ME/CFS?' question is, firstly, what type of radiation is being...
Is that 70 patients after having selected IDO2 as the gene of interest though? If one is testing other genes as well in that population of 70...
I'll want to see the paper to see the definition of 'reacted' here. Especially given the high placebo response in the Rituximab trial.
Good to see a replication study even (especially?) when it doesn't replicate. The ME/CFS field is littered with contradictory, unreplicated...
Abstract aside, it's not a particularly bad paper. Doesn't add anything new but does provide a reasonable commentary on some recent results.
It's a good article. One thing that struck me was how much the TED talk look has influenced all modern day speaking, and how much it looks like...
I believe we had a good thread on this in the past, I'll see if I can dig it out (though working until gone 8pm tonight *sob*). I'll roughly...
Which would tie in with this study (summary here)- one that I'd really like to see follow-up and/or replication of.
See my other recent post that fantastic claims (be they about radiation poisoning, vaccines, 'chemicals' or now biological warfare experiments)...
Oh God, I’ve dug into the hypothesis a bit more and have fallen down the biophoton rabbit hole. Send help.
Thing is, if you’re going to propose radiation, vaccines, or unspecified ‘chemicals’ then you’d better have some damn good data to back it up,...
I treat vaccine claims with a massive amount of scepticism and believe that, given the significant potential and actual harm that can come from...
This would be a bigger concern if there had been a statistically significant difference between the groups but some overlap in results. As it is,...
Agree 100%. Indeed, I'd go further and say if this disease was one day to be shown by faulty brain wiring or whatever I wouldn't necessarily have...
TBF, they also say "Although all of the above are possible contributing mechanisms, further experiments are required to understand the precise...
IMHO: Don't tweet this at anyone. If it turns out to have less specificity than hoped (and it hasn't been tested on any other non-ME/CFS...
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