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Much as I would like a more accurate name, I think we should stick with ME/CFS for now until we have more data and insight into it all.

I wonder how much of this was informed by the disaster that is psychosomatics.

Forget his political baggage (whatever it may be), it is his views on medical science that are the problem.

Since when has being a complete failure ever stopped a government policy?

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I can't believe that it just continues on and on after all that has been exposed about it. That the guilty are able to keep perpetuating the same shitty abuse and lies with a straight face, and go on getting rewarded for it. Nobody with the power to stop it can still claim lack of available...

I'd go further and say they are not only passively failing to deliver the necessary support, they are actively hostile to doing so and working hard to continue denying it all to us. Not all of them, of course. There are always good people in any broken system or institution trying to get it...

re: arbitrary assigning of causation They know what they are doing. One of the most consistent features of psychosomatic studies is the lack of discussion about and accounting for the serious problems and dangers with assigning causation without adequate testing, which they rarely, if ever, do...

This.

I agree with this. It is an important relevant fact that might get more people's attention and support.

Recommendations to make assisted dying available are required. Significant difference in meaning. But still concerning.

Cochrane can whip up a mighty fine broth of words, but the taste of it is still shit.

Interesting coincidence of timing.

Regular exercise has long been a standard core recommendation in the Australian health system, and I would be very surprised if it was much different in the US, UK, Europe, or anywhere else. Same for (appropriate) dietary supplements, like calcium, folate, iron, etc. Along with a bunch of...

All subjective self-report. 95% CI, 4.3-14.2 That wide confidence interval on the primary outcome does not inspire confidence in the claimed result. Borderline result, at best. The nocebo effect (expectation of harm) is hugely powerful. Evidence required. And they will go right on doing it...

I think this is the real reason they canned the ME/CFS review. If they let that one get corrected properly it will have profound consequences for all psycho-behavioural reviews, as the whole field is corrupted by the same basic shitty pseudo-methodology. It is not even that much. They can only...

This.

Whatever shreds of doubt there were left about how utterly corrupted Cochrane have become by the psychosomatic cult, they have been completely removed. Gutless, dishonest, abusive hacks. Particularly cruel to do this just before Christmas.

It's like the lessons they are learning from NICE, et al, are how to avoid robust methodology and actually subjecting their claims to adequate testing.

Today I learned that the Dutch have a colony in the Caribbean. No reason why not, I guess. But for the usual accidents of history modern Australia might well have been speaking Dutch. Or French, Portuguese, or Spanish.