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Be my guest. :thumbsup: This, and this. That is extreme, and seriously out of touch. I have no doubt they know that.

This is one of Wessely's hobby horses – that being on benefits somehow causes you to be psychosocially conditioned or habituated to stay on them. Conveniently ignoring the rather critical issue of correlation v. causation. It is nothing more than victim blaming excuses for regressive inhumane...

Incidentally, one of the most vicious critics of that book and the author was the influential psychologist Hans J Eysenck, who has an, um, interesting track record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck

"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within." Stephen Jay Gould, from the The Mismeasure of Man

To the surprise of absolutely nobody. These kind of things have never worked, and never will.

Does a belief of irrational beliefs in others predict oneself having irrational beliefs about others?

An open and non-dualistic approach So open, apparently, that their brains have fallen out.

Not sure about this. Sometimes it seems to me to have an excitatory effect, at least in as much as it is difficult to calm down. Though that may be a secondary effect of frustrated drive that cannot be adequately expressed and used up.

Meanwhile, you can be damn sure the rich and powerful and their loved ones will go right on getting access to vaccines and the finest medical care science can provide.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman

So far the only real benefit I have seen from AI is the potential for greater efficiency in spotting patterns in data. Which is a very real benefit, to be sure. But it is not good at the critical function of interpreting and recognising meaningful patterns in data. That is likely to remain a...

126.com and 163.com are major sources of email spam. But so is gmail.com, so it doesn't tell us much, beyond they don't have full control of the spam issue (and may not care to try too hard).

Garner is increasingly doing more damage to his own reputation with his shrill 'look at me' act than he could do to his critics. I almost (almost) feel sorry for him at times.

The very model of a modern BPS general.

This. False hope is the worst possible scenario.

Using 'fatigue' in the name is always major red flag. This. So next time she needs major surgery she will be happy to forgo anaesthetic? The fact that pain takes place in the brain does not make it something that can be arbitrarily suppressed or wished away. –––––– I am not sure this piece...

When you look up incompetence, dishonesty, shamelessness, hubris, exploitation, cruelty, and abject cowardice in the dictionary it says "See British medical establishment on ME/CFS".

Why do I not feel reassured?

Not always, but in general links can have everything from the question mark* on removed, without affecting their function. *Including the question mark.