Not sure I follow what you're saying. I don't see where they are replacing "chronic illness" with "recovery".
Except it is relevant for many patients (who say they recovered after addressing this fear), and we have studies that have looked into this. It...
I think it depends on what you mean by "confirmed". There are many studies that have shown that stress is a precipitating factor, and that fear...
There are many experiments that look at fear avoidance in ME/CFS, and there are many studies that have looked at stress as a trigger, and the...
I was ask the same: why do you attack them? I've talked to many of these researchers, and I get completely the opposite viewpoint to you. Again:...
Sorry, I don't have time right now to show specific examples. However, from memory, I remember many people saying that psychological stress...
How do you define "compatible with bias"?
From what I understand, the indirectness was due to change in the illness criteria (the requirement to have PEM), nothing to do with the quality....
No, that's not true at all. Certainly the "brain training" umbrella includes some dubious shit, but you can't lump it all in the same garbage can....
Well, I think that's a problem. What I see is a lot of misinformation about biopsychosocial being continually spread here. Then, those...
There you go assuming bad faith. I'm very familiar with how scientific methodology works, but you've poisoned the well before we've even started...
Well, that's simply not true, and is a classic example of why people avoid joining this forum, including myself. There are many biopsychosocial...
I don't think anyone was claiming that something ridiculous was possible. You seem to be using a strawman here.
Wilshire et al. reanalysed the PACE trial using the original protocol, and (unsurprisingly) got different results. I didn't see anywhere in their...
I'm not the OP here, but I'll reply anyway. I think we should assume good faith, i.e. assume that everyone posting in this forum is aware of the...
I had a look at the first page of that discussion, but the first page was almost entirely ad hominem attacks rather than a discussion of the science.
No, I think that is an overgeneralisation that seems to happen quite often here. Every "BPS" study posted here seems to get shot down before even...
You need to be careful looking at a single study. For example, looking at IFN-gamma, 82% of studies show no difference to controls, 12% show it...
Yeah, most of these people are a bit irritating, with their mix of science and handwaving. Jan Rothney (author of "Breaking Free") "lectured in...
I don't think it's helpful to be calling it a "bullshit group". We should be discussing the evidence, not making ad hominem attacks. What makes...
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