I once read a text (sorry I can't remember where, no source...) by someone who had had recurring depressive episode all his life. He said...
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Yes, I immediately thought about Jon Stone. When someone with a "functional disorder" is later found to have an "organic disease", he said that it...
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Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research...
Article about Freud's profound dishonesty and the total lack of scientificity of his work. Nothing really new, but these quotes about his work on...
There are, Einstein once observed, two ways a scientist can get things wrong. First, the Devil leads him by the nose with a false hypothesis. Or...
I look healthy. My friend, whom I’ll call Gail, also looks healthy. The difference is that I suffer from a physical illness and she suffers from a...
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I just came across blogposts and articles linked to this topic: A Synopsis of the Side Effects of Psychotherapy – What Should Clinicians Know? by...
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Thanks a lot to @The UK ME/CFS Biobank team for taking the time to answer our questions! And to all S4ME members involved in the organisation of...
So let’s talk about Professor Esther Crawley’s SMILE trial, published in September by the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, one of the BMJ...
I suppose different tests need a different amount of blood to be run (not sure anyway). What volume of blood is collected from a donor? On...
I have no doubts that some patients are "difficult", but the answer offered by Clare Gerada is so... hum, don't even know how to qualify it. But...
A very interesting reading about the impact of Unrest on someone who previously belittled "cfs": http://theindependentcritic.com/unrest/
I'd like to ask basic material questions. What are the conditions that allow the conservation of samples? How long can a sample be kept? How do...
See there: https://www.s4me.info/index.php?threads/patients-surveys.975/
I was a bit uncomfortable with some of his arguments, and you're completely right about his critics of RCTs in general. In fact it's not RCTs per...
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