Precisely this. We need to build a whole network of researchers / give them some sort of incentives/support to switch to this line of research. Perhaps an MRC centre of excellence for infection-associated chronic illness? That's the scale of what is needed.
I'm in quite a bad crash at the moment, and I'm going to have to reduce screentime and stop most of my advocacy work for a while. I might not be able submit my own comments unless this crash subsides.
I just want to add two points for now (that others may have already made):
(i) EDUCATION AND...
Yes, was wondering this. There are two potential issues/considerations: (i) is it better to have 50 responses saying roughly the same things compared with just one, and (ii) the response form looks like it might assume responses are from individuals.
It says treatment plan, which is probably a mix of all sorts of medications/supplements/health + diet advice, similar to what they've always done at the Stanford Clinic.
There was only one published, I believe. I suspect there was something going on behind the scenes RE MEAction response, possibly involving the paper's authors, and they curbed publishing responses. But the other responses should now be published.
My experience with blood tests is that being slightly out of range is generally not (considered) significant and doctors are really looking for large departures from the reference range. They won't care about 5–10% out, but they will if you're 30, 40, 50% out.
It does seem like he really gets it.
I have been thinking recently about how PEM is best thought about as a physiological 'state' that the body enters, and then (eventually) exists. And I was reading about physiological shock, and I thought about how PEM might be a less extreme/acute version...
Just the three instances!
I think this shows a complete lack of care on the part of the writers, reviewers and editors. I have published, edited, and reviewed papers and I would be very angry with myself for missing three instances of this typo in just one paragraph.
Agree with both these comments. They seem to take pride in standing alone and doing everything by themselves. We don't need that now, we need to come together. There's no need for lots of different micro-conferences. Ideally there would be one or two large conferences per year in the UK to bring...
I just looked into this because people are now tweeting that 25% of ME patients have MS (and including Ron's slide). I think this is really poor from Ron.
I have replied to the tweets in question.
"This is almost certainly nonsense and, IMO, shouldn't be shared. This assay is not used to...
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