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Oh, that would be a terrible idea. Never cross the beams, this would give science a bad name and it does not need to be associated with things that are clearly not. If anything applies to this here, science is the process by which things described in this manual are taken out of it, which is the...

Simply asking a simple rating of 1-10 is just as good as any of those in most cases, and likely never falls below 90% of accuracy. Not because it's a good or accurate way, but because those questionnaires have too much fluff and confusion embedded in them that whatever usefulness they add, they...

House of Commons petition for "long COVID, post-vaccine injuries, and related conditions": https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7076. Not much meat or weight to it, but there is absolutely nothing being done for this in Canada. Health care is a provincial...

That's an odd perspective. It seems to be common in medicine, and explains so much, especially the lack of incremental progress. In most engineering fields, this is the stuff that drives us. We want to figure things out, especially odd puzzles like this. Sometimes just knowing, seeing where it...

Same pattern everywhere. Venture capital firms typically fund hundreds of startups, most fail, the few that make it are profitable enough that all the losses are worth it. Same with pharmaceutical trials. Research is mostly a brute force thing, outside of a few exceptions. Problem is that fact...

That's a weird idea. Laws can absolutely compel physicians, and they will follow the law if there are consequences attached. But what's needed is resources more than anything, and that is a strictly political process. The entire AIDS program was a 100% political process that followed a political...

This is seriously damning of the institutions of medicine. It's no different than the circus of charlatans who took over US health policy, two sides of the same coin, really. In a nutshell: this junk pseudoscience is far more popular with medical professionals than it is with the general public...

Apparently this is a new website for the Austrian "National Reference Center for Post-Viral Syndromes": https://www.postviral.at/en/.

I'm not sure it's a genuine explanation, it rings fake to me. The people who work on junk rehabilitation pseudoscience seem to enjoy their work, in fact insist on continuing and expanding it, despite the fact that they don't actually help anyone, and in fact overall cause massive harm. They're...

The paper later references the CODES trial, which is used by some to argue that CBT is such an option and that validates the model that this is a psychological condition, in fact asserts it despite the trial failing. A discipline stuck in a perpetual state of amnesia, where neither the past nor...

Myth-busters: debunking long COVID myths and misconceptions https://www.who.int/europe/event/myth-busters--debunking-long-covid-myths-and-misconceptions The myths: Long COVID can affect anyone exposed to COVID. Being young and fit doesn’t protect you from long COVID. You don’t need to have...

The overall evidence for exercise has turned out to be extremely flimsy, because it's based on unrealistic ideas about how people live, where activity can only occur in the confines of a planned exercise routine. I lost track of the number of times I've seen reports about how it turns out that a...

Pretty much everything I see out of Germany as far as what health care people are getting, nothing has changed, and so about the only measure of success here might be the decade project funding and the nice-sounding words that accompany it, but by this measure NIH RECOVER was far more...

Not really, it's not something that can be quantified, there is no "unit of exertion/functioning" or anything like it. There is also a huge misinterpretation in those scales as being mostly linear, when they are most definitely not, a thinking that 50% in functioning means being able to do half...

Seems to me the problem is more about qualitative vs quantitative data, which is kind of the same thing but also not really. I don't see the standard use of statistical tools, as is common in medical research, as valid on qualitative data, they only work on quantitative data. Questionnaires are...

"Imagine a world"-based medicine is a rehabilitation clinic that isn't able to rehabilitate a patient population, for which rehabilitation is entirely the wrong approach, asserts that rehabilitation services are needed, because reasons, despite 6 years of failing at it. Which itself follows...

This is the best they could come up with. And it really is the best they can come up with. I have no idea what any of this has to do with anything, but it really sums up the mediocrity of this ideology. The mere possibility that they don't know everything, and so all of this is easily explained...

So much is contained within that, especially the part where he still has his job. The problem is the exact same we see in politics and everything that's broken: impunity. There is no connection between failure in work and success in a career. In fact it's entirely possible to make a widely...

Very odd to put out such a press release for such a mediocre study. Almost like it's all about repetition. I have no idea how this is even supposed to work out. This is obviously not a thing, there is no such thing as anything "preventative" here that can make any difference about not...

I've been reading these people's junk for years and I still have no idea what "cognitive-behavioral factor" even means. Even reading them describing it clarifies nothing: None of this means anything or has any relevance to anything in the context of chronic symptoms following an infection...