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  1. Sean

    UK NHS: Government proposed changes from July 2024

    IIRC insurance company admin and profits accounts for a huge chunk of those excess costs too. Count me among those opposed to the insidious privatisation of health. Or at least any of it being paid for by tax dollars. If a citizen wishes to pay for a private health service out of their pocket...
  2. Sean

    How to prove that your therapy is effective, even when it is not: a guideline, 2015, Cristea & Cuijpers

    I think the single most important fact about human psychology is that we see what we want/expect to see, and it takes considerable disruption and contradiction to get us to see otherwise. Which is why robust methodology is so important.
  3. Sean

    Should we change our name: 'ME/CFS Skeptic'?

    Evidence Unmasked ME/CFS Research Unmasked Behind ME/CFS Research (Could substitute Science for Research.) ––––– ME/CFS Research for Dummies :sneaky:
  4. Sean

    Alice in Wonderland Syndrome and EBV

    Whose perception? The patient's, or the clinician's?
  5. Sean

    Pain Coping Skills Training for Patients Receiving Hemodialysis, 2024, Mehrotra et al

    The whole purpose of this is to reduce the demand on the health system by discouraging patients from reporting these symptoms in the first place, not to actually treat or cure patients. It is a political and cost-cutting project, not a science-based medical one.
  6. Sean

    Should we change our name: 'ME/CFS Skeptic'?

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

    United Kingdom: Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan (BPS neurologist)

    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.
  8. Sean

    Open personal letter to the trustees of the UK ME Association, December 2024

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

    Article in the i: The long Covid ‘treatments’ to avoid, 2024, Clare Wilson with Garner and Busse

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

    Should we change our name: 'ME/CFS Skeptic'?

    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"
  11. Sean

    Article in the i: The long Covid ‘treatments’ to avoid, 2024, Clare Wilson with Garner and Busse

    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.
  12. Sean

    Explaining persistent physical symptoms to patients in general practice: can tests to measure central sensitisation add value? 2024, den Boer et al

    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...
  13. Sean

    Should we change our name: 'ME/CFS Skeptic'?

    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 ?
  14. Sean

    School absenteeism as a predictor of functional gastrointestinal disorders in children 2024 Tersteeg and Borowitz

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