We need to get Carol in here so she can benefit from the discussions and knowledge here.
Yes, but that patients are harmed by GET tells us that even the patients that are harmed by GET are initially willing to believe that GET could...
How would better advocacy look like? Avoiding a debate around whether it's biological or psychological but instead pointing out that PACE was...
Their ability to believe in a hypothesis that doesn't fit with the data they're collecting is astonishing.
Is this clinical trial design a fair comparison of a parmacological intervention and CBT? Immunologic and psychologic therapy for patients with...
@Rick Sanchez the article says that this is about illnesses we don't yet understand. Is this really the position of the health authorities? If...
Background: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in many cases is characterised by abnormal autonomic function and lower blood pressure (BP). In animals...
If they are forced to acknowledge that the current fear avoidance narrative has been disproved by PEM & CPET literature, then they might change...
The reason they are not good at listening to patients is probably because they decided very early on that patients suffer from a functional...
There's also the fear avoidance theory, according to which it's more the belief that exertion causes deterioration, and that postexertional...
Is this falsifiable? Would you say that it has been falsified by any studies? I know there was one study that found belief in viral cause vs...
It's not wrong. They just don't realize that they are fooling themselves with poor methodology and are yet another source of unreliable...
I am wondering whether he formally minimized his involvement to protect himself, while letting others do the dirty work of carrying out a clinical...
People that made a joke out of the illness in the eyes of the public by portraying patients as essentially imagining an illness and not pushing...
Respect for Godwin for being able to keep his friendship with Wessely and critique of PACE separate.
Is he maybe referring to the rationale behind CBT/GET? One cannot disprove the false illness beliefs hypothesis when the patient has an...
This is similar to what I've been doing in the last six months. Fruit and berry smoothies, and cooked spinach. Can't say it's making a large...
A higher prevalence of depression and anxiety in the FSS population could be merely the consequence of the "poorly understood" status of these...
The placebo response in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis....
The notion that the PACE authors do not know that their treatment is ineffective is not credible. One does not accidentally switch outcomes in a...
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