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Yeah this is very significant. Nothing grows the pool of available funding. Not even a new disease. In fact government funding for medical research usually shrinks, leaving it to charities. "New" funding is always taken from elsewhere, so comparisons are inevitable because the actual calculation...

Especially here, it creates the complete illusion that early intervention helps, reinforced by the fact that early recovery is most common. It's really stunning seeing this after so many years knowing the natural progression of the illness. Put a potato in socks. Wait two weeks. Illness gone...

We're never getting out of this, are we? This profession is completely lost and stuck in a loop. Just completely clueless.

Shaken, not stirred.

Well now they have yet another useless publication on their influencer rating and isn't that really all that matters here? It clearly is.

This is the product of decades of wasteful nonsense. This is the very best they have to show for it. Absolutely nothing. They can't even ask relevant questions. What is acceptable is entirely irrelevant, everything stems from effectiveness, and nothing produced within the medical profession...

That is pretty much what most of us mean by specialist ME/CFS services. A rheumatology clinic is a specialist service. Not specific to a particular disease, but specific in that they have applicable competent knowledge. Chronic illnesses like ME/CFS won't be managed by GPs until there is a...

As much as the biopsychosocial ideology is more of a belief system than anything, the weird thing about rehabilitation being infallible looks a lot like simple disconnection from reality, mixed with a belief system. It fully stems from the idea that the only disability is a bad attitude. It's...

I have no idea what this is even about. It's all so damn generic and confused that it makes my political science classes look like hard science by comparison. I think they're trying to validate what they're doing? I genuinely have no idea who or what this is for.

None whatsoever, obviously. This junk ideology is literally why nothing has been done. And why would it? It doesn't even make sense and there is literally nothing out of biopsychosocial ideology that is of any use to anyone. Doesn't seem like we're losing much from this being paywalled. Anil...

It's not about comparing diseases to one another, although it is something standard, this is why every study showing differences with healthy controls is criticized for not comparing to other illnesses, but rather that the level of impairment in ME/CFS is on the very low end for all diseases...

I can't see a single way this is not a conventional rehabilitation program. Mainly because there is no such thing. Rehabilitation is always a bunch of things done without much reason other than believing it might help, then not caring much that evidence doesn't confirm it. So in this sense this...

Cheap low-effort papers to pad their resume. There is literally no other reason to keep doing this nonsense. The premise is ridiculous. Everything about this is basically an industrial mill of dead horses jumping sharks. What a waste of millions of lives.

Unfortunately this is not something where machine learning can help that much. Machine learning cannot function with massively mislabeled data. Lots of those records are accurate, but too many of those records aren't, are missing or wrong. Then again we know for a fact that a lot of people did...

Good grief it's even worse than I thought. There is no instance of AI slop that is as ridiculous as the slop humans can come up with. It's basically Musk's horny virtual girlfriends, except somehow worse in every single way because of its context. That's been the only rational conclusion going...

I do think it's fair to say that things have regressed significantly since the days Wessely decided to target us. Things looked really bad back then, but they still look far worse today under the dominance of the biopsychosocial ideology, because it's an extremist ideology that always doubles...

It's the same idea as ever. There is only ever really one idea here. This thing was bankrupt the very first second it was thought of the first time, and ever since it's been nothing but pure copy-paste. Theology is a far more creative and intellectual field of study, and it literally cannot...

I don't think I've ever seen a trial report do that. Not for real anyway. As in listing the participants' own stated reasons, unedited. It's always done in some vague categorization decided by the trialists themselves, we never actually see the participants' own actual reasons detailed. Always...

I wonder what excuse they have for the fact that there was no meaningful response, then. Obviously there's the "this is not a chronic respiratory disease population" but then why use it? And seemingly not care that it was a bust? This was more than long enough to have a positive effect. Not a...

Wait the brain is part of the body?! faints dramatically