If it was an online survey it is easily explained by ascertainment bias, which is likely to be major for questions of this sort. There is also...
Another odd thing is that now there is so much talk of MCAS - which is supposedly NOT allergy but mast cell activation for other reasons.
Can someone who knows statistics explain how you get an odds ration of 70 with n=15 per group? If none of the controls had ICP8 then the ratio...
But that has not happened. Rather than trashing ME it is at the front of the consensus name, at least in all international research circles, and...
Indeed, but Ms Johnson still hasn't, even now. The point I am trying to make is that however much it may be true that the US medical research...
The article makes a number of useful points but as others have said I am not sure that having no diagnostic test has much to do with the problem...
The existence of MCAS seems pretty dubious to me and any relation to symptoms like Long Covid even more dubious. That looks like gossip science to...
That looks like a weak study with a major ascertainment problem risk. The threshold for diagnosing atopy is likely to be pretty vague and...
So where is the causation to go with these off beat correlations? The idea that acute pain transforms into chronic pain is drivel as far as I...
Well actually I rather think Dr Costa has tried to follow it up and presumably didn't find anything much.
I would be interested to know where the atopy bit comes from. I looked up atopy and as I expected found this: Asthma, allergic rhinitis, and...
It seems to me entirely right to move attention from occasional outbreaks of nobody knows what, to ME/CFS as a not uncommon disorder that seems...
In a review in 1991 Peterson dates the outbreaks that led to the CFS term from 1984 so maybe Strain has just misremembered the date of the...
I don't see that. It seems quite cogent. It may miss the point that within idiopathic fatiguing illness there may be several usefully separable...
I find it hard to take this seriously. Why would a piece like this have 14 authors scattered across the globe if they were not all chums of the...
She says this on camera in 'Unrest'. The problem is that the assays used have proved to be unreproducible. And it is not clear that they would...
Yes but we can all be aware of those. The issue is supposed to be misinterpretation of interoceptive signals contributing to illness. How can a...
Dear @lunarainbows. I don't think anything I have said is incorrect or inaccurate, although it may not be expressed in such a way to cover the...
To a one time inflammation scientist that looks like complete nonsense to be honest. The author is not very good at English either. edit: I see...
That seems to me pretty reasonable, and consistent with what I had suggested, even if I think on balance it is either badly worded or wrong. He...
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