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In my experience text-to-speech is very useful in shortish bursts, and I am grateful for it. But it is not so good for extended reads. It gets very drone like and relentless, almost oppressively at times, as it lacks the normal semi-random variations in tone and pace and rhythm found in...

As I have been saying for years, psychosomatics has become a cult, and like all cults they are openly hostile to critics and criticism, and will actively reject and suppress all criticism, especially informed accurate criticism. And the more informed and accurate and persistent the criticism...

CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that FND is characterized by dysregulated bioenergetics and increased vulnerability to oxidative stress. Understanding NMetNet in FND offers novel insights into the disorder’s neurobiology, with implications for therapeutic interventions to restore energy...

I have not got many emails from them, mostly just ones thanking me for a donation, best I can recall. But I am still getting the glossy paper mail stuff, despite writing to them a while back and asking them not to send them, which they acknowledged and said they would stop doing. And they did...

Straw man.

While I am generally in favour of locally managed service delivery, there still needs to be some broader national oversight to maintain standards and ensure that no local organisation goes too far off the rails.

I am fairly confident that when we do understand ME/CFS properly we are going to find that, for many patients at least, it has a prodromal phase, possibly quite a long one in some cases, up to decades, before it develops into the full blown syndrome. Also that the prodromal phase is going to...

Cochrane are barely even pretending, are they. Can Cochrane be sued over this (for negligence and harm, maybe misleading advertising as the definitive authoritative source of clinical reviews)? Particularly in the UK.

That was my first thought.

Another victim of Prof Crawley's glorious career. :grumpy:

a prevalence of at least one symptom of PEM WTF does that even mean? o_O

catastroenterologists ?

However, this is just not happening and very little progress has been made since publication of the new NICE guideline of ME/CFS in October 2021 – apart from the removal of graded exercise treatment from these services. Well, since the removal of the term 'graded exercise therapy' and the...

These services offer physical, cognitive, and psychological assessment, and, where appropriate, refer patients onto existing services for treatment and rehabilitation. SOS Same Old Shit.

"Do we have a single answer? Not as of yet, and most likely, perhaps we'll have more than one answer," he said. FFS, just say 'we don't know, we don't have any good answers at this stage', and leave it at that. Stop prejudicing the process when it has barely got started.

Leaving aside that this is a blatant insulting lie, even if it was true the question then becomes why, which leads to asking how the psychosomatic crowd have managed to become so dominant that they can block any research into alternative explanations. And answers to that that might be more than...

Four of the 8 significant results tell us nothing about causal directions (lower quality of life, more medical examinations, rising health care costs, and higher pain scores). They could all be the consequences of undiagnosed or untreated physiopathology. One (higher prevalence of early life...

a gradual, individualised approach to physical activity. Straight from the BPS bible. They have learned nothing, and have no intention of doing so.

So, 74% of the studies are utter shit, 18% are shit, and less than 8% achieve a bare pass mark. This is beyond pathetic. It is a profound and deeply entrenched systemic failure of the peer-review system in this area of medicine.

That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger Nonsense, certainly in this context. It is more likely to leave one in a weaker state.