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Is there a warning that this treatment has not been tested correctly and patients should wait for more information? No. So it's openly promoting it and it's a shame.

I don't see how lumping all these problems together can bring anything good. This is nonsense. How can Chiari be linked with Lyme, seriously? We need to subgroup, not regroup. Gathering unrelated disorders can only lead to crap (be it MUS psycho nonsense, or Brea's wild unproven claims).

Nuno Sepúlveda, Jorge Carneiro, Eliana M. Lacerda and Luis C. Nacul https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.02684/abstract Study made with the UK ME/CFS Biobank Full text not available yet, will be published soon.

and are completely free of any financial conflict of interest...

There was a high dropout rate, but we nonetheless decided our results were interpretable.

How long does this last? Because I'm sure a piece of cake and lots of things can have a nice subjective transient effect. That does not mean it "improves the mood states". This is ridiculous.

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Someone asked this question to the author of the Stat article:

Article in Stat: How measles infections can wipe away immunity to other diseases

They do not even talk about regression to the mean, which is a huge factor in what is called the "placebo effect", they've only selected perceptive causes for placebo effect, that tells how biased they are.

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I'm afraid the use of the Chalder fatigue scale could muddle the results. It seems so unreliable and ineffective to evaluate anything seriously.

"The PACE trial is probably the largest intervention trial in psychology ever done in Britain" I hadn't realised that...

I had never heard of (or don't recall) the therapeutic allegiance. Very interesting https://annals-general-psychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12991-015-0063-1 Thanks @Brian Hughes

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This may be the case. But even if we take the view that CFS is a phobia, there's still a big problem if your questionaire results are not in line with what happens IRL. I can't imagine that a trial meant to treat spider phobia would be considered successful with only questionaires asking "Do...

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No. That's not a matter of disagreement. Bring proofs of what you're asserting. The profits made by Boiron are huge. Their research credits are way lower than any other pharmaceutical companies (nearly non existing), and the raw materials they use are cheap (water and sugar). That's one of the...

Lol The Boiron family, who own the biggest homeopathy company settled in Lyon, are amongst the 100 richest families in France.

I'm not aware of any clinical trial for homeopathic remedies for teething babies, but no trial has ever found homeopathy effective, nor does its rational stand. To prove it has any effect on teething pain, you'd need something more convincing than someone's observations, which are, as you...