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Many ME/CFS scams of this nature have come and gone over the years. It always boils down to the scammer claiming he/she has a high accuracy diagnostic test or a potent treatment/cure, always presented in a fuzzy-on-the-details manner while presenting himself as a rebellious lone wolf scientist...

Microwaveable hot packs Sleep (the most effective intervention against pain for me)

Pretty funny study if not for the fact that it will be used as a weapon against ME/CFS patients. These marginal associations don’t exceed the ambient noise / crud factor that afflicts this sort of questionnaire research and can easily be explained by the common method bias. They measured...

Another scam no doubt.

Nature Communications (garbage open access journal), not Nature. Big difference.

The problem with this study, like with most studies of this type (epidemiological trawling through EHR), is that the definition of outcome is quite crude. Everyone here probably has brain fog but how many doctors will actually put down something so serious on your record: Most ppl complaining...

According to the supplement, the risk of developing fatigue on phenytoin was not significantly reduced compared to either levetiracetam or valproate.

All of these things have already been tried in ME/CFS (which is what long Covid is) and shown to be useless.

I’d say if they had anything publication-worthy, we would have heard it by now.

Not surprised to see this. We’ve seen other LP advocates who claim to have been cured drop out of mainstream employment and become public spokespeople for the alleged cure.

Sweeping generalisation there from SW’s wife which serves the agenda of pushing everyone back into harrowing commutes and cubicles.

That was my first thought. Whole new cohort of ppl to terrorise with GET.

It’s really scary and demoralising seeing GET vultures getting their claws into another patient group. No amount of debunking of bad research seems to stop the BPS juggernaut. They just use a different name for the same illness and continue as if nothing has happened.

Already out of date before it’s even launched. That strain of Omicron is superseded by others.

The most gullible? And even in those, the intervention didn’t work. I don’t understand how these people keep getting funded for this sort of work.

Another worthless trash study aiming to rediagnose patients with MUS and treat them with CBT which has already been shown not to work.

Yes. I’ve never seen an ‘expiration date’ set like this.

How convenient.

Agreed. It’s also telling that they deliberately chose not to do what most trials these days do which is to obtain written consent for data sharing. Not that it’s even necessary to reanalyse the original dataset in this case. Unlike in PACE where the data analyses were fraudulent, here it’s...

I just noticed this: “Bona-fide researchers” meaning all data requests from filthy plebs (ie patients) will be denied.