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"No one can be so stupid as to say that ME and post-covid do not exist." It isn't stupidity that is driving the denial.

It's déjà vu again, folks.

And these are based on what evidence (specific to ME)? Especially that hoary old chestnut, the "boom and bust" cycle?

negotiated In the same kind of way that you can negotiate with gravity or oxygen.

anamnesis That is, taking a patient's history. Why use that word when there is a perfectly good plain language version? Science-based explanations as well as the bio-psycho-social model So science-based explanations and the bio-psycho-social model are not the same?

Fundamental causes may involve biological factors (such as early childhood trauma and early life stress, emotions, a propensity of anxiety, witness to violence, maltreatment, or childhood sexual abuse) If that is their definition of 'biological' then I think I am on the verge of spotting the...

Donated. :thumbup:

At this stage in medical science any claim relying on placebo/nocebo is bankrupt from the start.

And without any understanding of what the symbols it is manipulating actually represent. Which is likely to remain the core problem with AI, at least in its current form and degree.

I am very much banking on the usual non-linear transition for this kind of attitudinal change. It seems like most of the (hard earned) pre-conditions are now in place for it. (Which is no guarantee it will happen, but if it is going to then the current situation is what it will look like just...

That's quite good. The message seems to be slowly getting through.

Patients can be our own worst enemy.

They have been refining their 'methodology' for some time now. It is good at reproducing their desired results, but without actually properly testing them.

I'd require measures of both activity patterns and PEM. We must get away from allowing self-report measures on their own. Apart from any other reason, we need some definitive answers here in order to stop the constant drain of research funds into ever more self-report based studies that...

This.

Some members of one side of my family have an essential tremor, some since childhood, including some of the otherwise healthiest people I know. It often runs in families and I have a mild episodic one too, mainly in the hands and arms, but also sometimes also the head/jaw/tongue. Mine started...

Only if methodological rigour is compulsory. Otherwise this shitfest continues on.

@DMissa Thanks for the extra detail.

The single most important and practically useful advice I have ever heard about assessing any study is identify and test the assumptions underlying it, because that is almost always where they will fail. Go for the assumptions, and you will rarely be wrong, and will save yourself a lot of time...

I think there is often a confusion in research between regulates (controls), and interacts with (affects).