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Aside from the second item, those are basically the core biopsychosocial beliefs. Mehmet Oz is the television personality Dr Oz, in charge of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and of course Bobby Kennedy is RFK Jr. The overlap between quacks like RFK Jr and biopsychosocial beliefs is almost a...

I don't see how those are especially different. In fact, this is quite typical, especially when you add the difficulty children have in expressing themselves about it, and the expectations of those listening to them, which always make most of the work. But one big correction is that it was not...

As is obvious in most cases, treat the illness takes care of the symptoms and removes any and all of the "mental health" consequences. It's possible that there are exceptions where it works the other way around, but it's really obvious that the imbalance may be as strong as 99:1. And it's...

Are we? I'm not getting that impression. There is still an unhealthy balance of null results and fake positive results, all supported by the exact same conclusion to keep this mess going: give us more money to do it again. Plenty of trials are still pretending that they have something, it...

It's so much worse than this. They explicitly argue that the output is the input, just because it's what they prefer to be true, however absurd and comically unlikely it is. Which is tradition, and is even more absurd. They show significantly worse understanding of human nature than any of the...

It pretty much says it all, doesn't it? That everyone understands this is not even a concept of plan, hardly worth mentioning.

That was actually a literal response by Michael Sharpe to all the criticism about PACE. He pretty much said "well if you don't like it, just do your own $8M trial". And that's when I truly understood that this industry is simply not serious, and most of what they do is performative horseshit...

Or at all. Mostly they seem to hate the idea, see them as a black mark on their reputation, and hide behind authors who assured them that whoever thinks they saw an error is actually confused, and that their work is impeccable. Then they act very confused about what to do next, wishing that the...

I'm almost a broken record on this, but: this is something the software industry has mostly (/somewhat) solved. Because our job isn't about programs, or computers, or software, or anything like this, it's information. We deal in information, in how to create it, transform it, assess it, transfer...

How does nonsense that wouldn't even get a passing grade in an intro class get published like it's a real academic paper? This entire discipline is basically like oppositional defiance to Occam's razor: I won't even consider the most likely, and the only reasonable, explanation, here's a...

Whatever politics they are trying, and failing to play, it is at best controlled opposition. It's borderline sycophantic, even, and it disgusts me to see it. No one should have praised this mockery of a plan, it is only deserving of strong and furious condemnation. This is not about a group of...

Along with a few comments from elsewhere, to show how this is not a few bad apples, but a whole bunch that is itself the source of spoiling. We have a few threads with those. They leave no room for interpretation, and even being restrictive, such as comments from previous articles in Pulse, or...

Basic accountability based on results? Can't see that happening. And while this line would normally be a fine joke, it's just a fact. This is all about the most basic accountability that every other profession has to face: based on results, on what has been delivered, on whether it made a...

Talk about throwing stones from a comfortable glass mansion. And utterly clueless, which is one of the main reasons why the patient community has to do any of this in the first place. The problem is not that social media is replacing medicine. The problem is that medicine has completely failed...

Also it's a small detail lost in all of this but can these jerks quit blaming us for the name already? As if it matters! We didn't come up with the stupid name! And chronic fatigue syndrome is an even worse name so look who's talking?

Yes, Dr Magoo, those have definitely not been included so far. No one has ever looked into that, ever. They mention how bad the studies are, I guess all studies that don't find anything are bad, but completely overlook how completely incompetent the psychosomatic pseudo-research is. And this is...

Keeping in mind those are verified comments from GPs in a GP magazine. This is why I keep mentioning that the comments we see on reddit are all very typical of the medical mindset. They are not extreme, in fact they are very much average. They feel comfortable saying horrible things because they...

They will find that those rehabilitation models are promising, but more biopsychosocial research is needed to figure out how to deliver them properly. Buys a decade or two doing nothing useful while more lives are lost. As is tradition. Failure is the only option, because success would bring...

The amount of confusion, nonsense and outright lying is completely incompatible with the most basic professional behavior. And, again, Dr Magooing it: no one's ever done that before, few studies have been done, also many studies have shown this works, it has been widely used for years to great...