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And disgust.

Good point. The name needs to be distinctive enough to not throw up vast numbers of irrelevant results in a general search engine.

But many diagnoses aren't as definitive as we think. Unless it is a psychosomatic diagnosis. Then it is inviolate, and how dare anybody suggest otherwise.

Combine angry Aussie koala with polite English restraint. :thumbsup: Nice work, @Trish.

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The one thing you can never get those who have seen the light to do is shut up about it.

ME/CFS Science Scrutiniser ME/CFS Science Auditor –––––––––––– I would definitely keep this tag line immediately underneath whatever name you end up with: "Bringing clarity to ME/CFS research findings"

Doctors are warning that some desperate patients are getting stuck in a quagmire of pseudoscience that has developed around the condition. Then proceeds to promote the worst of it from doctors.

That is exactly what is going to happen. It will delay diagnosis and treatment of other diseases, which is going to increase morbidity and mortality for patients. Did they discuss that blindingly obvious risk certainty? It is incredibly reckless and callous of them. All just so they can having...

ME/CFS Science Analysis ? Accurate and neutral, if not particularly exciting. Seeing how much deference is paid to formal honourifics in certain quarters, how about Lord Sir ME/CFS Skeptic ?

Biopsychosocial means whatever the person using the term wants it to mean.

One trick ponies. They are clearly going to apply this failed model to everything in sight.

Unfortunately, because they are selling something that people in economic and political power really really want – pseudo-scientific excuses for shitty medical and public policy – they are being taken very seriously, and I don't expect that to change any time soon.

Yes, there needs to be a distinction drawn between unrealistic and realistic views of our bodies. I don't dislike my body, as such. Apart from being a few kilos overweight and ageing it had never been a general issue for me in that sense. For example, I am well on my way to normal male-pattern...

This is a very important point. I have not lost the use of muscles nor muscle strength, broadly speaking, especially for short term limited use. But I have lost the capacity to use them consistently and repeatedly at a normal healthy day-to-day level without paying a high price for it. I have...

No control arm. Non-randomised. Who the hell is approving these pseudo-studies?

Sadly, our capacity to learn from history is limited. As soon as the lived memory of something dies out we start getting complacent about it. Same thing is happening with the memory of WW2 and all its horrors. Almost all those who were direct witnesses to it, particularly participating adults...

I voted for a change. Mainly for the way skeptic is placed in the name, as @Simon M noted. Currently it reads like being skeptical of ME/CFS itself. Otherwise skeptic is a perfectly good word to use. But it is a marginal decision, with pros and cons either way, and unlikely to change much about...

But by some miracle the main players in the psychosomatic club and their chosen successors are not, and are entitled to infinite benefit of doubt and influence over the proceedings.

Excellent summary, @Peter Trewhitt. Don't know.