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As a reminder, Kate Kelland wrote an article about the Cochrane review (as one-sided as this one) (S4ME thread there), which did not generate that many articles. I agree with others that we should be careful to not publisize this one too much...

The article in question is out (Reuters/Kate Kelland): Special Report - Online activists are silencing us, scientists say S4ME Thread there

I guess these are the worst abuse they could find. When you compare that to real online harrassment (I don't know for other countries, but in France, many people have been on the receiving end of death and rape threats, insults...), well... these are not pleasant messages, but calling this abuse...

And language doesn't mean anything anymore... This is such nonsense. Orwelian nonsense.

If you have a look at the amended abstract they propose (last page), it's not revolutionary (nothing like "CBT and GET are ineffective", but the accumulation of "mays" seriously undermines the claims of success). That Larun et al. couldn't sign this is telling.

Like the Lancet? If there is something I learned since becoming sick, it is that you always have to check by yourself. By this standard, we should trust Wessely and ignore the Cochrane rebutal made by @Tom Kindlon and Robert Courtney.

Congratulations! Thanks a lot for your tenacity.

Anti-depressants do work: reply to Stegenga https://philosopherscocoon.typepad.com/blog/2019/03/anti-depressants-do-work-reply-to-stegenga.html

Posts relating to the ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn have been moved to the relevant thread.

Posts relating to "The prevalence and impact of psychoneuroimmunological factors in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Treatment effects and mechanisms of action of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" have been moved to this thread.

Some interresting considerations about trials methodology (CoI, selectivity in publishing trials with positive results, gap between patients selected and real life patients, scales, what is used as a placebo...) Rings a bell...

https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2019/03/05/its-time-to-pay-attention-to-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

I wasn't aware of that. What's her "rationale" for making that link?

Can someone explain how these unconclusive results end up in this conclusion? "neither adolescent perfectionism nor beliefs about emotions accounted for variance in subsequent fatigue or physical functioning" but nonetheless "Parental representations could contribute to fatigue maintenance."...

Video published today https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/908622?src=rss

And instead of questioning these researchers and therapists about the validity of their therapy, this opposition of the patients reinforces their belief that patients are delusional, thus more treatment is even more needed. Circular reasonning once again...

Yes, how many have been told over and over by authority figures that all their problems are due to child maltreatment? How many have been looking back to their personal history trying to find some clues or events that could give some meaning to what's happening to them before the trial had even...