Pretty much a textbook apples to citruses control.
Wessely has a habit of saying things he doesn't believe because it makes him look good. Then saying the opposite if it also makes him look good....
Many who suffer from chronic complex diseases are often met with disbelief from family and physicians leading to isolation, grief, and even...
Even without having noticed the editor's note, anyone who seriously finds nothing wrong with LP being trialled this way has some serious...
Simple as that. Really shameful behavior from people who really, really should know better, in fact have been trained for and are well-paid...
It would be very fortunate if it helped explain, at least in part, the mechanism of IBS, as there seems to be many similarities. IBS a clear...
Further down the initial tweet it says the full article should be published around June 6th along with responses. Makes no sense. Like asking for...
That sounds a lot like... intestinal warfare.
I expect that from Sharpe but this is extremely disappointing from a platform that aims to speak about ethics and humanities in medicine. I can't...
I meant it generally, not just the psychosocial gang. Most physicians' opinions I have seen in the wild are exactly that. It's really only the...
Given the recent "rousing reassurance" trial of CBT for IBS by Chalder, it seems almost inevitable that unless this nonsense is stopped in its...
Ah, so PVFS. The invention of CFS was probably one of the single most harmful acts of willful medical sabotage in history, one replete with such...
Interesting Links to Rehmeyer's excellent article: https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/21/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-pace-trial/. I would correct...
Then how can there be responses published along when the article isn't even published? How can people react to something they haven't read yet?...
PACE researchers also affirmed being at equipoise about the "treatments" they have been promoting as highly successful for decades at this point....
The strategy seems to be hoping it goes away. It works in politics. Not so much in science. Which is, of course, a massive ethical failure. I...
Doesn't look like it went well. [MEDIA] [MEDIA] [MEDIA] What's even the point of those? Where the hell is $5M per year going then? This is...
Unresponsiveness in the face of obvious child abuse is a very bad look. This could well be the biggest own goal of all. The whole thing is so...
And plenty who would have likely made it work fine with proper advice. I was working freelance and have always been frugal. I could get away with...
I watched an interesting video last night about thermophilic bacteria growing in an abandoned coal town because of a runaway fire in the coal bed....
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