Neither. Biology is a process. You can't put human DNA in a test tube with all the essential nutrients for life and grow a baby.
First of all, we're talking about subsets of patients, secondly, physicians have long had selective vision and focused on the symptoms they want...
Validated against what? They didn't ask patients whether they thought the questions made sense or whether they represented their illness...
There is no scientifically demonstrated "placebo effect" besides transient pain reduction due to conditioning of the "endorphin" system....
My worries are that lots of people with ME or CFS will worry they have CCI or worse, get misdiagnosed with it, get surgery and not have any sort...
The study also stated the (oversimplified and partially misleading, but common) assumption that: and I think it it's a waste of time trying to...
The "fatiguing" test was conducted on the adductor pollicis (one of the thumb muscles), but this doesn't exactly put much strain on the...
There was money promised for endometriosis research over a year ago and yet there is still no plan on how that is going to be spent....
The abstract reads like a cherry-picked narrative. I don't trust this narrative either, unless the individual in question agreed it was true. The...
I don't experience that pattern at all, makes me wonder if I have a different illness. For me, physical activity can increase brain fog, but...
Here are some more Jon Stone doozies: "Trick or treat? Showing patients with functional (psychogenic) motor symptoms their physical signs."...
Reminds me of this speculative paper: https://spqr.eecs.umich.edu/papers/YanFuXu-Cuba-CSE-TR-001-18.pdf Claims it may be consequences of some...
This is their latest review (Jon Stone and friends) (I guess no one informed them about how inappropriate their analogy is): Structural...
There were a few gene expression studies published by her from 2003-2009ish, I'm not sure what is being referred to apart from that. (she left the...
Blinding might be difficult, I mean it is obvious when you've been randomised to the crap carrot cake group. Blasphemy!
I think the cake went over my head on this one.
The forgot to mention the bit where you have to believe in pseudoscientific nonsense.
It's notable that the discussion about Jason Lindsley is well, somewhat different to what was presented in the article.....
The "Time to achieve required numbers of cases" in longitudinal population based cohorts is interesting (Figure 3). The consequence that it takes...
Are you saying the cake is a lie!?!
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