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Must be some mighty powerful woo if it can reverse causality.

Explain-a-matic™ Just feed in any data on health condition and it will say the answer is FND.

This.

Not even that, all we can conclude is that some patients report feeling better about it. As is tradition they have failed to collect data that enables us to distinguish between merely modifying questionnaire response behaviour and actual improvement in the underlying condition. Not going to...

From the editorial: How do they know this? It might be, but the science is nowhere near being able to state it with such certainty. For very good reason. Decades on and there is still no confirmed treatment, let alone cure. Also think the use of the term 'feeling' is highly inappropriate and...

Preventative measures are all we have for now. There are certainly no treatments, let alone cures, once you have got it. So I say crank them up, big time. Encourage masks, air filters and better ventilation in buildings, social distancing (within practical reason), hand hygiene, staying at home...

They actually have contradictory views. When patient self-report supports their interpretation it should be accepted without question, even if any objective evidence says the opposite. When it doesn't [support their interpretation] it should be ignored, or used as evidence that patient...

The number of hypotheses, and the degree and intensity of debate, about any issue are inverse indexes of how much knowledge and understanding we actually have. In medicine specifically, I would also add the frequency that it is labelled complex and multi-factorial, best explained by a...

According to the findings, there is no generally valid coupling between the oxygen content measured by MRI and neuronal activity. Interesting. :nerd:

I agree with Andy. ME/CFS is the best compromise from a list of bad choices, and I see little benefit, and considerable risks, in trying to get it renamed until we have a better handle on what is going on under the hood.

Liked, but didn't reveal the spoilers as have not seen the film yet.

Be interesting to see a more granular breakdown of the 45-64 age group, maybe into 5 year intervals, to see if the rate goes up with age.

Similar story here. Got sick one day in late Oct 1984, struggled hard with it, not helped by the medical profession's 'offerings', my life just vanishing before my eyes in a particularly opaque and horrible way. Eventually reached crisis point as nothing was working and my options had run out...

That is probably the most significant change. Partly for support and solidarity, and partly because it has made it much harder for the authorities to pull the wool over patients' eyes and fob us off when we can directly access the medical literature and see for ourselves what the real state of...

Based on no evidence at all.

No consideration of whether it appropriate or not? Or is it just CBT for all?

Drowned themselves in a vat of it.

Don't you think you should have thought of that and adequately implemented it from day one of your grand FND project? This is what happens when you let clowns with Big Important Ideas™ play with people's lives.

This may or may not be a bad thing, depending on what the clinic was offering. Patients need to be careful about what they wish for. If we are going to demand dedicated clinics then we need to be clear about what they can and cannot offer us. At this stage I think they have little to offer us...

How did they measure adherence? Indeed. They have not collected any data that reveals causation, and especially direction of any causation. But the whole point of doing science is to determine causal relationships. If a study cannot contribute to that then it is not scientific in any...