Which is much lower than the 50% that some advocates use (often based on the flawed review linked below):...
Looked at some of these studies like Li 2022 or Romanet 2023 and they focused on patients discharged from hospital with pulmonary problems so...
Don't quite understand what you mean by this? Isn't the problem simply that these trials did not include a non-exercise control group (and thus...
Could you give an example?
Cognitive symptoms are one of the required symptoms in many ME/CFS case definitions, so this seems like a circular argument.
There is a new comment by Lillebeth Larun, the primary author:...
On Twitter Wigglethemouse also suggested this study as problematic:...
Ha, that's interesting. So post-exertional malaise became 'submit-exertional malaise'?
Yes it's quite helpful to see the distribution of fatigue scores. The mean was no different between groups: both around 13 which is rather low for...
Seems like a very high percentage in Long Covid patients.
Could you clarify what you mean, where there differences in GPCR AAb in this study?
Abstract Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating disorder characterized by serious physical and cognitive...
Seems to be the case for the proportion that report fatigue and headache, which did not increase much in the COVID-19[+]PS group as it was already...
Persistent symptoms following Sars-Cov-2 infection were defined as reporting "both shortness of breath and fatigue at least five times after their...
Side-thought: it must be really frustrating to be a true scientist amongst this mess of fraud and incompetence. Imagine funding going to...
True, this is specified later in the blog and Twitter thread but was difficult to include in the title. Yes, good point. I remember people...
New blog post about fraud and research misconduct in scientific research. https://mecfsskeptic.com/how-many-scientific-papers-are-fake/ Twitter...
Was only able to briefly skim the protocol but I think it looks good and addresses most of the problems raised with the Larun et al. 2019 version....
The diagnoses of CFS and fibromyalgia were self-reported: At the start of the study, 1.4% of the 9132 participants reported chronic fatigue...
Abstract Background: Individuals living with chronic conditions (CC) typically have a higher risk of more severe outcomes when exposed to...
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