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I am fairly confident that when we do understand ME/CFS properly we are going to find that, for many patients at least, it has a prodromal phase, possibly quite a long one in some cases, up to decades, before it develops into the full blown syndrome. Also that the prodromal phase is going to...

Cochrane are barely even pretending, are they. Can Cochrane be sued over this (for negligence and harm, maybe misleading advertising as the definitive authoritative source of clinical reviews)? Particularly in the UK.

That was my first thought.

Another victim of Prof Crawley's glorious career. :grumpy:

a prevalence of at least one symptom of PEM WTF does that even mean? o_O

catastroenterologists ?

However, this is just not happening and very little progress has been made since publication of the new NICE guideline of ME/CFS in October 2021 – apart from the removal of graded exercise treatment from these services. Well, since the removal of the term 'graded exercise therapy' and the...

These services offer physical, cognitive, and psychological assessment, and, where appropriate, refer patients onto existing services for treatment and rehabilitation. SOS Same Old Shit.

"Do we have a single answer? Not as of yet, and most likely, perhaps we'll have more than one answer," he said. FFS, just say 'we don't know, we don't have any good answers at this stage', and leave it at that. Stop prejudicing the process when it has barely got started.

Leaving aside that this is a blatant insulting lie, even if it was true the question then becomes why, which leads to asking how the psychosomatic crowd have managed to become so dominant that they can block any research into alternative explanations. And answers to that that might be more than...

Four of the 8 significant results tell us nothing about causal directions (lower quality of life, more medical examinations, rising health care costs, and higher pain scores). They could all be the consequences of undiagnosed or untreated physiopathology. One (higher prevalence of early life...

a gradual, individualised approach to physical activity. Straight from the BPS bible. They have learned nothing, and have no intention of doing so.

So, 74% of the studies are utter shit, 18% are shit, and less than 8% achieve a bare pass mark. This is beyond pathetic. It is a profound and deeply entrenched systemic failure of the peer-review system in this area of medicine.

That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger Nonsense, certainly in this context. It is more likely to leave one in a weaker state.

A particularly moronic example of this madness is that all mentions of 'Enola Gay' are being removed from the entire defence department, because it contains the word 'gay'. Enola Gay is the name of one of the most famous and historically important aircraft in history – the WW2 American bomber...

In fairness, that is a pretty big concession to reality, certainly by the standards of the psycho-behavioural club. It more or less undermines the rationale for the psychosomatic interpretation. I mean, they are very very late to the party, and we could have told them that for free, and have...

I think those hyperventilating about how powerful and amazing AI is going to be, and soon, are likely to be quite disappointed. More likely is that it will run into a major barrier/s to progress, if it has not already. I seriously doubt that we are going to see truly sentient AI any time soon...

disabilities disability They are trying to write us out of existence.

Yes, it is, um, interesting how the most powerful possible immediate practical help that medicine could recommend – improved material support – is the very one they rarely even mention, let alone test robustly. Instead that factor is twisted into a causally untested, correlation based claim...

"...Stone says, Long COVID patients just don't have the luxury to sit this out over the next four years..." Early days yet. Wait until you hit four decades with no useful advance in understanding or treatment.