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Cue the 'we don't think it is a good idea as it might encourage patients with functional disorders to think they have a biological disorder' excuse not to check if the functional diagnosis is correct. Narrator: It wasn't.

Or malicious non-compliance.

and he stressed that their findings are not suggesting that CFS/ME is a mental illness. Nor is he saying it isn't a mental illness. Despite characterising it as that for decades.

Is there an English translation of it somewhere? Machine translation in the browser actually does a good job but can't do the material in the image boxes.

Infinite flexibility and adaptability being its most appealing attribute to its fan club.

A functional disorder is whatever the functional disorder club declare it to be. I wish that was a joke.

Pregnancy is something that needs to be controlled for in studies.

One of the great lost opportunities in recent history.

How can we determine if they do or not? Because, thus far, those making this claim have offered no robust proof of it.

He is extraordinarily gifted at getting his name of research papers, gaining power and status, and avoiding any accountability whatsoever for the mountain of human carnage left in the wake of his glorious career. So there's that.

Given the authors and patients reside in or near Maharashtra (i.e. in the tropics, ≈19ºN), then lack of available sunlight is unlikely to be a factor. Though staying indoors in darkened rooms might confound that, and there may be a significant seasonal variation due to the monsoon. I would add...

Reminds me of BACME: 'We are definitely NICE compliant now. Very scientificated. Coz we say so. Got all the buzzwords down pat and everything.'

Good question, @Turtle.

It's all about the narrative, init. Spin a seductive enough of a story about an explanation of and solution to life's ills, and you will be rewarded with wealth, power, adulation, and invitations onto morning TV programs for fawning self-promoting chats about your Very Important Work. Pretty...

Indeed. Depends which criteria you judge it by. It's purported or its actual purpose.

It is a mom and apple pie kind of label. Medicine's God-of-the-gaps explanation, to be hauled out whenever they run into the limits of their actual knowledge and skill. It 'explains' everything that is not yet explained, which really means it explains nothing. The problem is that in the...

Excellent comment, @Utsikt. That is exactly what is happening, and has been for decades. The psycho-behavioural club have been comprehensively unable to deliver solid meaningful results using robust methodological standards, so they simply lower standards until they can claim a result...

IIRC, the journal that published the Anomalies' critique by the usual suspects has left that as free access, but made the complete shredding of it by the NICE team's response paid access. There are too many examples, from too many sources, over the years of subtle and not so subtle...

And then claim they are the noble saviours trying to help us against the bigotry of the profession & world. Something Wessely was doing from very early on. The levels of narcissism and callousness that requires is just breath-taking. This pair are a stark warning to the world about the dangers...

If they did not name those doing the 'advising' (and I suspect it was a lot more direct and forceful than mere 'advice'), then they have not helped resolve the situation.