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There's what we see and there's what's happening behind the scenes. No doubt there is far more politicking happening right now. The few glimpses we see in the FOIed documents is probably the tip of the iceberg. They really do have no arguments, but they have all the power. The only thing...

Sadly this argument has been around for a long time and being utterly stupid hasn't stopped it from spreading unchallenged. Many of the proponents of the model claim they do not do GET, yet the only evidence for this entire paradigm is... GET. So they openly admit they don't have any evidence...

Those comments are terrifying in revealing medicine's flaws. Medicine truly only seems to make significant progress by way of science and technology, if it were left to medical practice alone barely anything would progress at all. It's PhDs that make things move forward, MDs are holding back not...

These people live in a fantasy universe. They're still not paying any attention to what the patients are reporting, simply make up their own facts as they want.

Yes. And we've never been at war with East Asia. Always West Asia. Always. Read the reports!

Ironically, it's one of the most fundamental philosophical principles that one's freedom ends where it harms others. But clearly harm has as wide a range of definitions in medicine as freedom does. Freedom is almost always the rallying cry of tyrants, not coincidentally.

The difference between the "court of public opinion" and an official court-like process. Same process with "the election was stolen" in public but admitting in front of every judge, under oath, that, no, it wasn't. They're playing politics and, as said above, as if the roundtable didn't even...

What a petulant and unprofessional response. Textbook rejecting evidence and substituting their own. Clearly what evidence-based medicine means is "evidence I agree with", which defeats the entire purpose.

I may have missed it but I hope there's nothing in the guideline about "goals", "agreed" or not.

I think ultimately it's that they only think of causes, never consequences. BPS ideologues explicitly take the consequences and assign them as causes, if they can, or ignore them entirely. So all the things that can only be consequences, not causes, simply don't make it in their minds. It's not...

Journalists and editors wouldn't know to use them. What would be useful would be to provide those photos for the commonly-used platforms (e.g. Getty), properly tagged. Although there will always be a problem that any photo labeled "fatigue" will be completely inadequate, especially as despite...

Given that it's massively important to take every media opportunity to remind people that this was an extensive 3+ years evidence review process, not a campaign of any kind, that lead to those conclusions. The only role activism played in this is to make it happen. And it did, but the...

In the sense that disability support, sick leave and other important features related to dealing with chronic illness are psychosocial, then sure, why not? I don't know why they would be classified as psychosocial but whatever. Otherwise I have no idea what those supposed psychosocial ideas have...

It's a damn shame this isn't studied in general. One of the main consequences of psychosomatic ideology is that it turns the people closest to you against you, or makes them go away in a time of greatest need.

Posts moved from Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) Could be interesting to check.

Merged thread Accounting for the fact that breakthrough infections are less likely to occur after immunization and are less severe, the risk of Long Covid appears relatively the same. Which could tell us something about the process that kickstarts it. Six-month sequelae of post-vaccination...

Wow, so you can have people answer a bunch of questionnaires. Fascinating. Truly groundbreaking stuff. How do they go from to that asserting that one such questionnaire must be "clinically useful" is just as fascinating.

Even Google is throwing in the towel on this one. First I've seen of it. We have a new label, folks! It's going to be all the rage somewhere at some point.

Absolutely nothing of value was gained from this study, so a true psychosocial study. I have no idea why it makes sense to them to single out literally the most common symptom of illness and obsess over it. Other than wanting to supply the "solution" to it, which is of course what this is about...