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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman It is excusable in desperate patients, even if not a good thing. Completely unacceptable in supposedly senior competent honest researchers and clinicians.

Well said.

Enough rhetorical wiggle room there through which to sail a fleet of aircraft carriers.

If I was them I would also be trying desperately to convince the world that what I was doing was nothing like homeopathy. No sirree. This is genuine establishment-certified pseudo-scientific humbug, not that fake fringe alt-med woo.

They seem to have left out the 'controlled' bit of RCT.

I think we are. Literally thousands of incomes, careers, empires, and egos – and, of course, some major government policies – depend critically on this 'science' not going down. It is why the CBT/BPS crowd have managed to survive and prosper for so long. Sure as shit ain't due to the quality...

Not just a valid answer, but an honourable one too. Those three simple but profound words are the start of all knowledge and wisdom. –––––––––––– The USA, Australia, Denmark, and Canada now all explicitly and officially accept that ME/CFS is not primarily psychological in nature. The BPS...

Plus they knew by then that actimeters in multiple studies were showing a null result (for CBT at least).

Might be some legal arse-covering going on too.

Quite specific phenomena too. Not generalised.

So are we emotionally dulled, or centrally sensitised? :confused:

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"widely accepted scientific principle" Oh puhleese. Plus, the use of testimonials is always a major red flag. Same approach woo merchants and snake oil salesmen take.

And you didn't think to follow up on that and find out why, without being prompted by others to do so? Really? Where is the famed journalistic skepticism of those in authority? Where is the urge to seek the truth, to hear all sides of the story, and hold abuse by the powerful to account? The...

Kafka was an amateur compared to the likes of Sharpe.

Blue eyes, brown eyes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott

Nah. They will just convince their co-conspirators in government to introduce a law making them immune from legal action for consequences their noble heroic compassionate research and clinical work. Not kidding.

Yeah, don't fall for this one. It is not just a matter of differing interpretation/opinion. Their work is demonstrably and woefully sub-standard, and often deliberately so.

Same shit, different packaging. They have been doing this since at least Freud. I wasn't allowed on the swing when I was 3. Therefore CFS. It sound loony-tunes, but that is the level they are rapidly approaching.

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