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That analogy doesn't strengthen his argument about the 'mind-body connection', it undermines it. But he hasn't noticed because he's too busy lucratively guilt-tripping people. Like a medium trawling for a receptive audience member. Something's coming through, I'm getting a name... does anyone...

Wonder if that's the same Clare Wilson. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126997-000-mind-over-body/

The NHS website said I wasn't eligible for a free Covid vaccination, so I booked a private one for today. But the pharmacy's system said I was on the free list, and so was my husband as a carer. I'm not going to try to understand it but am happy with the outcome!

Somebody's journalism course didn't cover Betteridge's Law of Headlines: "If the headline is a question, the answer is no."

If this report is accurate, it seems the claims for the 'dramatic success' of the pilot project rest on evaluating only the small minority of people who found long-term employment and ignoring everyone else. https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/10/17/dwp-mental-health-job-advisors-hospitals/

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How easily reporting creates bias - "backlash to health information" as opposed to, say, "criticism of medical claims".

It might help if there could be some kind of pathway that would allow learning from misdiagnoses. As it is, you go and see a GP (or whoever) with your concern, they say 'oh no, I shouldn't think it's that, you just need to stop worrying', and you then never see the same person again. So when the...

"we need people who have not been trained in disciplines where uncritical acceptance of theory-based practice is the norm" Is the problem that they're being trained to uncritically accept theory-based practice, as such, or is it that they're being trained by people who believe the practice...

Thanks for this - really useful to see some practical real-world examples.

Probably not a representative sample, if people experiencing long-term symptoms are more likely to take the survey?

I can picture Badenoch striding through hospital wards ripping the drips out of people's arms and demanding to know why they're getting the special privileges of medication and a lie-down.

And it's an absolute treat (and very typical of Ed Yong) that the transcript of the video is made up of properly written and edited captions that form a properly readable script, not the usual autogenerated rubble.

I'm a 14th-century doctor and I'm doing these things to avoid catching the Black Death: 1. Wear a leather hat with a long pointy nose 2. Wave a bundle of herbs 3. Avoid miasma 4. Drink your own urine 5. Confess sins 6. Apply a live toad to any swelling 7. Massacre some heretics. If you can't...

I've been taking 10mg amitriptyline for a couple of years - it was suggested by a neurologist to reduce sound and touch hypersensitivity and migraine-like symptoms, and I think it has helped somewhat with that. But I'd like to try coming off it now. Not sure whether I'd need to taper off from...

Expressing anger made her feel less fatigued, so 'the mind-body connection was proved in an instant'. Therefore if you find that anger doesn't alleviate your fatigue, that means the mind-body connection is *dis*proved in an instant? (of course not, it just means the goalposts get moved again.)

No, he talks about things like lowering inflammation and getting people "back into a healing state", plus the importance of rest, but he doesn't claim cures. Various phrases like "some of Sinclair’s patients are seeing light at the end of the tunnel." etc.

Do we know what trial he's talking about here?

Someone sent me this link for it https://www.thetimes.com/article/1a49f428-ef8b-43a2-854e-336f3c4f0094?shareToken=7c4dbfedcf35f9b03f4faf2b0c5a27a0