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  1. Sean

    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

    To the surprise of absolutely nobody. These kind of things have never worked, and never will.
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    Patients with severe ME/CFS need hope and expert multidisciplinary care, 2025, Miller et al

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

    Internal medicine at the crossroads of long COVID diagnosis and management, 2025, Ranque and Cogan

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

    Preprint Dissecting the genetic complexity of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome via deep learning-powered genome analysis, 2025, Zhang+

    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.
  5. Sean

    Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

    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.
  6. Sean

    Norwegian guidelines in development: help with a literature search

    "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman
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    I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me. Nick McGreivy 2025

    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...
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    Patients with severe ME/CFS need hope and expert multidisciplinary care, 2025, Miller et al

    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).
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    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    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.
  10. Sean

    General thread on functional disorders in Denmark

    The very model of a modern BPS general.
  11. Sean

    Patients with severe ME/CFS need hope and expert multidisciplinary care, 2025, Miller et al

    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...
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    Patients with severe ME/CFS need hope and expert multidisciplinary care, 2025, Miller et al

    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".
  13. Sean

    News from the USA, United States of America

    Why do I not feel reassured?
  14. Sean

    E-readers (Kindle, etc.)

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

    UK House of Lords/ House of Commons - relevant people and questions

    What 'treatment'? Have you ever considered funding a robust and competent medical research programme?
  16. Sean

    Cluster and survival analysis of UK biobank data reveals associations between physical multimorbidity clusters and subsequent depression 2025 DeLong+

    Conclusions We show that certain groups of physical multimorbidity may be associated with a higher risk of subsequent depression. However, our findings invite further investigation into other factors, such as social considerations, which may link physical multimorbidity with depression. Nice to...
  17. Sean

    News from India

    most evidence supporting cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) comes from randomised controlled trials Fail right there.
  18. Sean

    Psychology Today: In Search of a Coherent Understanding of ME/CFS and Long Covid, Jake Hollis

    this hyper-vigilant state Same old, same old.
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