This was what McEvedy and Beard said to justify themselves. I should have said that they suggested no abnormality other than being young and...
I fear that I may find this subject to be of greater interest than others do, but hey ho... On rereading McE and B it is clear that they...
That is very interesting, but it sounds more like existential "angst" rather than CFS. The idea of accompanying restlessness does not seem to fit...
I suggest that Ramsay was merely picking up and emphasising a different aspect of Acheson's description: Relapses have occurred in almost all...
That's my view also. I thought it was a basic principle of taxonomy that the earliest description stood. If you want to vary the description you...
I thought that was the proposition to be proved.
Are we sure that "suggestibility" is not merely a particular form of "hysteria" in cases where groups are affected? I have this from Jenkins:...
To try and narrow this down a little before considering it in detail, who is meant by "those analysing the outbreaks"? Clearly McE and B and...
Is that sufficient evidence upon which to base a hypothesis? And what tests should one carry out to seek to refute it?
Acheson's comment is: At the Royal Free Hospital, no patient with poliomyelitis had been admitted to the hospital prior to the outbreak, nor was...
No, but McEvedy and Beard, whose views in some respects you appear to accept, did. It would help to distinguish carefully the points of difference.
I worry about this apparent endorsement of hysteria as being a causal factor in any but a tiny minority of the epidemic cases. It might be viewed...
I think that what I am suggesting is that within the broader spectrum of illnesses unreported by Acheson, but referred to in the literature, it...
At the moment I don't have the energy to refer to the source but my recollection is that one part of Acheson's four part rebuttal of this...
This thread has been split from https://www.s4me.info/threads/bmj-pressure-grows-on-lancet-to-review-“flawed”-pace-trial.5444/page-6 Nothing...
Sarah Baxter is apparently the deputy editor of the Sunday Times. Says it all really. About the Sunday Times.
I like the idea of moving medicine. See this and weep.
Only if she is told to.
Not much of a research journey if the symptoms are still medically unexplained after thirty years.
So would such advice to the small minority be negligent?
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