This "thirds" idea crops up again and again in medicine for a wide variety of conditions. It is a common myth that is never supported by evidence....
Mind if I ask which country you are from? The GET in Australia/America might be more pacing oriented than that of the UK/Netherlands. One of the...
The elevated HR post exercise is not substantial enough to discriminate between patients and the various other groups you mentioned. A meta...
The claims made are still quite different - the researchers aren't claiming that CBT leads to recovery for these conditions.
Yes. The exception, rather than the norm...
It doesn't. People with other chronically fatiguing syndromes such as post-polio, GBS, Lupus etc also suffer PEM like symptoms. There is one...
The most notable part of this is this bias is still common amongst scientists today.
Rewarding 100% attendance means that people come into work/school when they are ill with infectious illnesses, spreading those illnesses to...
I'm sure Wessely is a "very stable genius".
Wildly optimistic, but that's what we've come to expect from Silicon Valley boffins right?
When you are looking at common symptoms, not underlying causes, the heterogeneity does not matter so much. Lots of researchers have wondered...
Then, as now, we will not "acknowledge good intentions" while these researchers continue to fail to make any attempt to build trust with the...
I spent a lot of time researching this a few years ago and came to the conclusion that none of the cytokines can be biomarkers for fatigue in...
Henrik Vogt sounds just like the usual "alternative medicine" quacks...
Measuring miRNAs is not the same as measuring SNPs, but I'd also caution that their miRNA research is subject to the same sort of statistical...
There is a worldview difference between us and these people. The "illness" is that we're complaining about are considered to be the symptoms...
It sounds like classic narcissism to me - it's more about how she feels and the voices of the patient community are unimportant.
Medicine has always been guesswork. It is more science-influenced than it has been in the past, but we are still quite far from comprehensive...
I think she is genuine, but she is rather gullible and doesn't make a very good scientist. Science is not about trying to confirm your preexisting...
I'm sure it'd be ugly...
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