Good one. Seems relevant to point out that in what I hoped would be a thread documenting silly antics that would soon die off, the very first MD...
I think this sums up the problem with evidence-based medicine as well as anything. Prasad has been pretty much wrong about everything during and...
Well, that's a lot of good talk. Let's hope we see some walking. Because damn if it doesn't come to pass, and years down the line some tiny...
Heh, not quite true. It's not nearly as bad, but sickness is almost always awful and features a lot of that. The difference is that where it...
So from a rehabilitation clinic, the vast majority are still impaired, and that's good prognosis? The 9% having a good quality of life at the...
Agree that the details are weird yet again. I almost never see testimonies like this, with those words and framing, especially "convinced she...
Uh, always thought she was. But looking at what she was involved with, and it's basically all the other ones except FINE, based on the exact same...
On anti-mask and anti-vax disinformation: Social media is not the primary driver here, public health and the institutions of medicine are. I see...
Pseudoscience peddlers always disagree with research exposing their quackery. These people destroy all hope of recovery for us, then go on about...
For what it's worth, there was a recent discussion on the LC sub-reddit over someone being told by two MDs that LC was psychosomatic that it was...
Having seen thousands of people discussing being told they have FND over the years, a small fraction of which was definitely positive, I say, with...
They are testing the 'hypothesis' for the treatment model that has been most used from day 1. Right. As one does. Has anyone bothered to test...
So, one of the latest trends is clearly to argue that people who may or may not report PEM don't show PEM according to them. This are several...
The same problem is found in almost all health problems. So are they going to do more training on all those conditions? No one is ever going to...
0 = 0 = effective = give us more money. The scam equation. Imagine being in any other job and doing a lot of work, to then show your boss that...
"One popular approach is "brain trfaining."" You know what, just leave it as is. It's perfect. Although to say that the premise of 'brain...
I left a comment pointing out how the LP and similar 'brain retraining' programs are routinely promoted by MDs, and that it's largely identical to...
The next day she did a 5 km run. Something that normally takes a few weeks when starting from scratch. Not walking 5 km, a 5 km run. She probably...
I didn't keep some tally or anything, but roughly speaking, I'd say that most of the predictions I saw from medical experts about COVID were...
Incorrect, it preceded availability of tests. In fact it was a huge clusterfuck at first because tests were first unavailable, then in very short...
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