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This is all really over-padding my "evidence is completely irrelevant in evidence-based medicine" file. The thing is just overflowing. It's all so silly but also it's real life and lives are getting destroyed by complete nonsense. I wonder where this leads next. Messiahs, probably. Maybe...

The editor-in-chief of the Lancet (Richard Horton), famous for having promoted and defended the vaccine MMR paper that launched the modern antivaccine movement, praised the PACE trial for its independence and equipoise, with a team who have made asserted claims for decade that the treatment they...

It would be really amazing if someone did a study on the history of this. How the same reports have said the same things again and again, and still nothing ever changes. This report could have been written in the late 80s, with almost no changes. In any country. They knew. They know. They're...

The funny thing about this is that their own literature makes it clear that people get over this fantasy nonsense very quickly, and get the loud and clear message that medicine is not there to help us. So it's impressively delusional. They can't stop stroking their egos even as they are pulling...

Always the same dynamics as the conspiracy fantasy communities: when you don't understand how things work, everything looks like a conspiracy. In health care, it slightly shifts to: when you don't understand a condition, it always looks psychosomatic. They can use whatever words they want to...

I'm sure there are unrelated issues where something like this can help, but I find it very easy to dismiss entirely because from the start of Long Covid, many rehabilitation specialists have made assertive claims of "dysfunctional breathing patterns" that must be, unquestionably so, the cause of...

I've seen some French use the term "rééducation à l'effort", apparently it's what some health care services use. Not sure whether it's the same thing in France, but in Quebec it would be a similar root to "éducation physique", aka gym class at school. I think in the US it's also usually called...

Courts are one major place where civil rights violations have historically been corrected, and so far they have almost entirely failed us. This is, a start.

I find that "augmentation graduelle de l’activité" works best.

This doesn't get to the source of the problem, though. Yes, the states are failing, but they aren't doing this on their own. They have medical advisers, councils, agencies, departments, and so on, staffed by experts who promote the standard lie about this all being a fake psychogenic illness, or...

Well, there's a career spent in evidence-based medicine. This would prime anyone to accept all sorts of BS, especially if he shares the view that it's a superior type of evidence. Which he appears to, it is the idea behind Cochrane, after all. Literally all the evidence the ideologues use come...

His emails with the Canadian guideline project even make it clear that they struggle to find laypeople. Most of the ones around them have something to sell, and they probably have 10 health care professionals for every recovered patient they bring along. It's like a pack of sheep where most of...

It's amazing how it's obviously all theatre and no one's doing any real work here. They talk about local needs, while there is global failure. They mention partnering with rehabilitation specialists, when it's the wrong thing to do, completely misunderstands the problem, repeats the same old...

Predicting the future used to be a lot more difficult, that's for sure. Now, for anyone paying attention, the only relevant part to most news isn't what's in it, so much as either"oh, I was wondering when that would come up" or "ah, people are finally noticing that, uh?". Yet most people are...

What's amazing is that those reports never include any of the junk pseudoscience creeping all over medicine, so they massively underestimate the problem. You could probably include 80% of psychology in it as well. And that's probably an underestimate as well. Even worse is that even if...

Lots of talk these days about the artificial plagiarism machines, but I'd really be so much happier if the human plagiarism machine would be dealt with. Literally of this junk has been said and done over a million times, and it's still presented as some new insight. It's all so lazy and...

Really Dr Magooing it on turbo here. You especially have to love how they decided on those "vulnerability factors", then somehow, unexpectedly, found them. Even though it actually invalidates their entire premise, with the vast majority of those triggers being purely biomedical, while illness...

It's been clear for many years that only consequences can do it, and that it's precisely impunity that is the root cause of this failure. They are clowning around instead of doing real work and it's celebrated as better than actual real work.

So, not quantitative, then. They're calling quantitative what is obviously and explicitly a qualitative assessment. I tried looking for the paper on the high seas but can't find it to confirm that this is indeed what they are doing, but it wouldn't be surprising. This is a discipline that has...

Yes, what lots of people have been reporting for decades, is what's happening. You spend decades ignoring what people report, and you will fail to notice what they have reported. But it's completely silly to come along, decades later, and pretend to start noticing those things. This is all stuff...