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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.

Is that review confidential? Might contain some useful stuff for us.

I have persistent rhinitis and do a nasal rinse every day, with boiled water plus non-iodised salt and sodium bicarb. (1/8 tsp salt & 1/16 tsp bicarb in 200ml water.) No problems with it, and it works well for me. Have to say it has improved significantly since my cat died. He was not the...

I think they are throwing whatever they can get their hands on against every wall in the house in defence of the whole psycho-behavioural project in the hope that something sticks. Which it appears to have at Cochrane.

Getting ME/CFS or LC already puts you in a minority, both on the general health spectrum, and in the way different patient groups are treated within the health system.

I blame the move to the savannah and the discovery of fire. Should have stayed in the trees.

The blindingly obvious one they are all desperately trying to avoid mentioning: adequate material and financial support for patients.

I am less concerned with that, than with the fact that the profession pretends that the stuff they have pulled out of a hat is reliable, useful, and safe, when it quite clearly is no such thing. I don't mind them not knowing, I do mind them pretending that they know and callously inflicting...