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I'll see your 2003 citation and raise you this February 19, 2002 citation in The Guardian. It's from a letter to the editor in response to an article of February 7th titled "The Making of a New Disease."

I haven't tried to compare all of the names side-by-side but I did notice that Dr. Derya Unutmaz of The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine was new to this letter. The previous letter preceded the grants made to Dr. Unutmaz and his lab for the study of ME/CFS which were made by the NIAID...

Personally, I can't imagine anyone being so crass as to hijack the Knight-errant's ocean-liner metaphor simply for the purpose of comparing the fateful story of the S.S. Titanic with the increasingly desperate attempts to save PACE.

I noticed this sort of mildly twitchy hand tremor starting when I was 19, about three years before onset. It's more noticeable if your arm has no support and your hand is just suspended in air. You can't keep the individual fingers still no matter how hard you concentrate. It has faded as I've...

First author of the paper gives a TEDx Talk in 2015 titled "Reverse Aging," but he's basically talking about rejuvenating the body/brain with HBOT. Says we only use 5% of our brain. Hmmm....

I had this test a couple of years ago. In my case, I believe the radioactive tracer was Technictium-99. As the webpage you linked to said, if you are unable to do the treadmill test, they can give you something (possibly something like amyl nitrite) to speed up your heart rate, if necessary. I...

The author of the Stanford Prison Experiment was actually the co-author of the introductory textbook used in my college psychology course. According to Wikipedia, it's a very widely used textbook, but I can't recall if it discusses the prison experiment. It and the Milgram Experiment were...

"Seven years of college down the drain!"

I was curious about this, too. I would assume that it would have to be quite high in order to get a p-value of 2.5x10^-12 ( 1 in 400 billion compared to the typical significance threshold of 1 in 20 ), but maybe not with the huge number of subjects without CFS. The total number of subjects...

This kind of reminds me that, when I was really young, like between 3 and 6, I would get a pretty bad headache, and generally feel terrible, if I accompanied my mother to a garden nursery to buy plants, etc... I would complain, but my mother seemed to be incredulous that anything about the...

Yes - the disability law firm mentioned in the article seems real enough and is located in Toronto. https://www.sharelawyers.com/

I ran into a "news" website that looked like this once before while following a link to an ME story. It looked very "synthetic" and had a page of "reporters" photographs that made me suspicious of whether those really were their "reporters" or were just some "stock" photos. It seemed like just...

The daily newspaper known as "The Chicago Evening Post" ceased publication... in 1932. The online entity by the same name showed up less than a year ago. The Wikipedia article on it is somewhat amusing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Evening_Post

I always though psychiatry combined the power of a floor wax with the delicious flavor of a dessert topping... [Unfortunately, you have to sit through a commercial to see.. "the commercial."] https://view.yahoo.com/show/saturday-night-live/clip/40020440/shimmer-floor-wax

:) Yes. of course. I'm just wondering if the two terms refer to the same thing.

@Samuel Well, they attribute it to "molecular mimicry" in this 2005 paper. Whether that explanation has fallen out of favor, I don't know. ETA: In the video directly below (well worth watching again), Mark Davis uses the term "cross reactivity" to refer to the T-cells going after both the...

I believe an example of what he is talking about would be when the bacteria that causes strep throat (S. pyogenes), left unchecked, winds up leading the T-cells to mistakenly attack the heart (valves) due to "molecular mimicry," ultimately producing rheumatic heart disease. I think this can...

:laugh: I'm sure that is an exaggeration, just like those the rumors that if you stand too close to him your twin will age faster than you do.

Fascinating stuff. It's interesting that there even is a toxin that can disable the mitochondria without killing the cell. I wonder what it's called. I've occasionally wondered if ME might not be directly caused by a pathogen, but rather by a toxin in the gut (produced by a microbe) which is...

The concept of Self-Replicating Machines has been around for a while, going at least as far back as the 1940's when the idea was fleshed out by mathematician John von Neumann. For that reason, they are sometimes referred to as "von Neumann Machines." The concept was rapidly linked to space...