Quite interesting to revisit the posts from summer 2020.
Seems that SMC doesn't mind using experts with competing interests?...
And note that the piece we are quoting is written by someone who has consistently given hyped and garbled accounts of alternative therapies....
Or people who see what they want to see will always see what they want to see and people who set up unproven treatments costing thousands of...
I prefer to use sloe gin.
Unless there is some documented evidence somewhere that blood is black in ME and Long Covid I think this was bullshitting. As far as I know...
Indeed.
For most of the autoimmune diseases studied we are just talking about up to five years of not getting worse. You then go back to the roller...
This looks highly misleading to me. We were doing this in 1995 and it became clear that people did well for about five years - their median...
It is just the mantra. But is intriguing that the way he says it makes no sense. Genetic factors do not kick off after infection. They were always...
I cannot see any reason why micro clots would make blood thick or black. Darkness of blood is usually just a sign of it being venous and the...
I prefer sloe gin.
Of course, I was just fantasising what Dr Wak might say if he believed everyone with ME was lazy - and of course there are plenty of Dr Wak's of...
Yes, this is one of the points I was hoping to get clear. Except that it probably won't be a test for 'it' - i.e. ME. ME, like RA is a useful...
There is the issue of how confident one can really be about 'expert' diagnosis. In fibromyalgia one study showed a hundred fold discrepancy in the...
Yes, but sensitivities and specificities on machine learning against healthy controls are not going to tell you that. You could compare against...
Yes, but you answer this one with your number 2. There is no such thing as 'accuracy of an ME diagnosis'. It is merely a placeholder for...
Indeed, but doctors are only going to believe the test indicates something real if there is reliably demonstrated predictive power over and above...
Exactly, and it will only be incontestable if it more reliably predicts what is going to happen than clinical judgment. Moreover, to be taken...
But this is the whole Catch22 of the argument. If you are sure of the clinical diagnosis you do not need the test. Tests are only of value when...
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