Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg Tens of thousands...
From @MSEsperanza: It seems this BMJ review from 2022 has received no thorough published critique yet -- at least nothing linked on the Altmetric...
Absolutely fecking not! They need to do something about this. Why should people be encouraged to waste energy they don't have on therapy that...
If you got your result via an NHS LFT, you can still register it (I reported both my recent infections). They don't accept results from privately...
Yes, they are. I've been on it since April 2020 and am still submitting test results every month.
Usually when the ASA make a judgement that something breaches the code, they expect the broadcaster to stop running the ad. Since this wasn't a...
Maybe the address got put on the TisBest mailing list when I did it last time, and they occasionally send out gift cards to a random selection of...
Pretty sure not. The email was from the same domain as the last one (I always check when something unexpected arrives), the link took me to the...
I got sent another one of these earlier, and have donated it to MEAction again. The email from the foundation confused me because I'd forgotten...
Well, except that it linked ear seeds with recovery from ME. None of the low-cost suppliers could get away with that because they have to abide by...
This. I don't blame the young woman involved, who for all I know sincerely believes her ear seeds brought about her recovery. I don't even have a...
From that exchange, it sounds more as if he's congratulating her for being determined to do the couch-to-5k challenge or lose weight. Just think...
"...and no, we're not going to explain why we're doing it. You're not in our special club."
Good reminder! A lot of disabled people who're unable to claim PIP because they're no longer of working age don't realise they could claim this...
Exactly. Due diligence done afterwards, not before; and even then, not by the broadcaster. They think it's fine to light the blue touch paper and...
Even if they do, the BBC seems to be wilfully ignoring the fact that (a) sick people are very vulnerable to exploitation, and (b) people with...
I agree with most of what you've said, but I think this would be problematic. It's such an overwhelming part of the experience, especially for...
There's also an update on the page about the migration of claimants from income-related ESA to Universal Credit: Four years is a long time away,...
I would, except that they've already stated they're sending the same response to everyone (see the letter that @tornandfrayed posted in #211)....
I agree, but I can see the caveat as well: it needs to be in line with descriptions of other diseases. I looked at the page for endometriosis,...
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