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That was my first thought. They are are measuring the wrong variables, not that the test itself is bogus.

Yes, seems prudent to hold off demanding funding until we see what it will be paying for.

And that non-result was after 8 weeks of intervention. They got nothing. Another rehab study fails to deliver any meaningful benefit. Credit to them for using an objective primary outcome measure.

Broadly it is quite good, basically on the right path. But quite a few details are problematic. It is a major channel, so that is helpful in spreading a more realistic story about ME/CFS.

Somebody should send the authors a link to that appalling Reddit Medicine thread that was posted a couple of days back. I mean, if they are looking for the primary source of ignorance and the Dunning-Kruger effect among the general population on LC (and ME/CFS), and also for the first place to...

And all too often don't want to.

Which is why the BPS club have been concentrating more on 'perpetuating' factors. Almost any post-onset features (real or imagined) can be spun as contributing to perpetuating health problems.

the exact etiopathogenesis and pathophysiology of FI in DGBI remain unclear. So why such definitive "gut-brain" framing and therapeutic recommendations? This is just marketing fluff for the psycho-behavioural rehab industry.

«There are no known treatments. Lets make them stop acting sick, that will make them us feel better.»

Doctors like to consider themselves some of the biggest smartest toughest truth tellers in this world. And in fairness they often do have to deal with and tell patients some pretty harsh truths. But they also squeal and whine louder than anybody when they get told some hard truths about...

Should a Science Media Centre even exist?

Correct. The power of mind over matter is the most potent and seductive myth of them all.

Seems a very selective removal of comments.

If you silly lowly patients insist on continuing to be sick, and have a crap life, after we experts have told what is wrong and how to fix it, then it is your fault. When you abandon methodological rigour and falsification, the world is your oyster!

I am taking bets on how long before attendance at JFK Jr's proposed wellness centres becomes compulsory for chronically disabled and sick, and how those attending will be put to (unpaid) work for private corporations as part of the, um, re-education process. This is not going to end well. Don't...

And underpayments?

standardisation of rest in fatigue interventions People should rest when they need to. Nothing more, nothing less. This obsession with 'standardising' everything is half the damn problem.

Point taken. OTOH, it is the responsibility of the pros to do robust assessments. I don't take what patients say at face value either. I have learned the hard way how easily we all can fool ourselves. Me included.

No fundamental difference to this, IMHO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(Byrne_book) Sold over 30 million copies, more than $300 million in sales, and also made into two films. The only reason this toxic drivel fantasy persists throughout the ages is because enough people – and a...

Of course a bajillion years of evolution has prepared us for the early intuitive, less overt and specific, warning signs of approaching health trouble. It is bizarre to me that anybody would think otherwise, and devote their time to boldly declaring these alerts to be both a false foreboding...