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See also: "lie detectors". They detect something. It's an actual objective measurement. Does it detect lies or honesty? Of course not. An effect is irrelevant, it's easy to have "an effect". "The book moved on its own" is an effect that can be argued to be a ghost. Means nothing at all, people...

I wonder how the people at Cochrane are handling it, especially those involved with decisions about us. What do they think of one of their section editors and major figure promoting blatant quackery and basically bigotry against patients? I'm not sure I'd like the answer to that. Especially...

And obviously large puddles on the ground lead to large clouds. And famine is what causes crops to die in the fields. Are these people aware that being sick as a young adult leads to exactly this? Again they are looking at the very obvious and normal outcomes of a situation and simply can't...

What is it when a "clinic" chooses the easiest, most likely to "recover" patients, regardless of what they do? A sham, is what it is. They want the salary but they don't want to do the work. Document here:

They hear patients saying that health services don't understand anything about the disease, that it's the main obstacle to improving things, and their conclusions seems to be that they are unable to understand it any better that and therefore nothing more can be done on their end. How are these...

If it's not done systematically I don't see how it could be useful. If it were done systematically it very likely would, but it wouldn't be obvious until it's done systematically for long enough, and it isn't done since it hasn't been done yet and therefore not judged to be useful, since the...

Nothing groundbreaking or new but an interesting quote to follow up on. Here of course we meet the problem of denied disability. It's not that they aren't disabled, it's that they aren't recognized as disabled. The outcomes for both scenarios are of course vastly different. Long Covid’s...

Many of those symptoms are present in the acute phase. But they wouldn't know that because it would require listening to the patients and taking their reports as useful information outside of the specific context of in-patient admission. In the acute phase of an infectious illness, medicine has...

Lots of bad comments about this so far, looks heavy on the BPS.

Easy to notice here how few people are asking for such information...

It's pretty shocking to see a frank admission that there has been no progress in decades, no prospect of helping anyone or changing the situation any time soon, followed immediately by: "let's not do anything, though". This is criminal neglect, knowing that people under your responsibility are...

It's a genuine fact that the word has been so thoroughly distorted of all meaning that it's effectively useless going forward. It's not something that can be improved, it would take too long and be too confusing, not even counting how many would simply refuse to adapt. The psychiatrists who...

Would be interesting if someone looked into this. Of course this was predictable but since it's a private industry it all happens with extra secrecy.

Understanding Long COVID: The Unseen Public Health Crisis November 19 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/event/understanding-long-covid-the-unseen-public-health-crisis/ Many familiar names: Introduction Michelle Williams, Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public...

Looking forward to when this group discovers planking and warns of an epidemic of mass depression reflecting a call for help. I do wonder how long will the ridiculous trope of "people are talking on the Internet, the thing invented to facilitate mass communication and reaches over 50% of the...

Not exactly what one would call a deep thinker, uh? Did the virus not get the memo, that they are restricted to the lungs and are forbidden from moving elsewhere?

Moved post Looks like a big paper that will deserve its own thread but useful Twitter summary. Published in Nature so expected to be pretty big and evaluates a roughly 7% prevalence of Long Covid. Likely a conservative underestimate, as it always is, so the floor, but not sure at which time...

Not explicitly related but also not quite unrelated...

So far this is by far the LC study that has gotten the most interest with physicians, as best as I can see. The asymmetry of bullshit works just as well in medicine, it turns out. You can tell how many are thirsty for this. It's easy to see how some people latch onto this opportunity, it's so...