@CRG you made the point in your excellent disquisition elsewhere on attitudes to work and illness under New Labour that their predecessors had...
It’s worse being cold than being warm and it’s much colder this year than last, because heating the house properly would cost over a grand a month...
I emailed Tim Spector @KCL with a random thought about Zoe at the height of its fame, and got a fairly swift reply. He seems wiling to engage.
Hmm. Neatly argued, but I wonder if the ME gender disparity is doing a little bit too much work there? I really want to put all this on a...
About four months in my case, although I’m sure mileage may vary and it was probably longer during lockdown.
If a post is going to be filleted to the point that nothing meaningful remains, perhaps the whole thing should go.
It would be interesting to see the data, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem at all intuitively implausible to me. Especially not if the data comes...
That would be nice. My immediate pessimistic instinct was that this would accelerate means-testing of PIP.
This was the nineteenth century, though, even manipulative illness fabulators could suddenly succumb to something real, especially to serve an ill...
Yes, that’s all fair. I was trying to think of characters who were bed bound or lacking energy, but probably a fruitless exercise. As you say, one...
So I’m assuming that people who had ME in the nineteenth century had as much difficulty being believed as they do now, and were easy prey for...
Can we diagnose retrospectively for authors writing before ME was identified? Henry Woodhouse, the father in Emma, maybe? Grandfather Smallweed...
@Jonathan Edwards Thanks for setting that out. I’m out of my depth with the science. I can almost see how modern physics might help one to treat...
This argument is as old as time and it always, always ends with everyone accusing everyone else of being a dualist. It’s intriguing to encounter...
I’d absolutely agree that analytic philosophy of mind probably focuses way too much on the epistemic status of autophenomenological experience,...
Wow. Even if by “soul” you mean “consciousness” that’s quite a large claim. Dualists from Descartes to Nagel have been outgunned philosophically...
[MEDIA] Research on ME and Shatner’s Bassoon needs better funding.
Reddit skews young - not teens, but 20-somethings. Maybe youthful doctors, hale and hearty, are more likely to believe that their training has...
Hello. Yes, the preprint that was posted yesterday. Apologies for missing the definition, if you indicate a page number then I’ll review and...
Sure, but it’s used by political scientists to describe a particular strand of free market ideology. No one ever calls themselves a neo-liberal....
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