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Right. The take away is that in the US, EIS people - or later their CDC superiors - replaced ME with CFS. CFS WAS more vague, but that doesn't mean ME wasn't folded into it. Yet by default, most US victims had only a CFS diagnosis to cling to, and accordingly sometimes earned the disdain of...

It's a non sequitur to suggest that a belief that ME/CFS is not a disease, coupled with a belief that ME/CFS patients can enjoy improvements after medication that last for years, but due solely to the placebo effect, might present potential problems? If so, I'm guilty. But you've managed to not...

We couldn't agree more here. Again agreed. No. That is inference, and it belongs imo more in the psych community than a discussion of ME/CFS as an organic disease. This theory, this line of thinking, leads over a cliff. You couple that with your stated inclination that ME/CFS is NOT a disease...

Well, in your capacity as a medical doctor, do you know of any diseases that have a history of a swathe of patients with remissions/improvements that last for years attributed to the placebo effect? Is there reasonable precedent here?