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Imagine how insane it would be to admit to this while the extremely insane project of building up entire multidisciplinary teams working on medical issues not only without a physician involved, but with the explicit goal of "de-medicalizing" them has been ongoing for years. Maybe the tell here...

Especially since in the context of medicine, other sources of evidence aren't worse forms of evidence, they are much higher grades. Clinical trials, even well-conducted ones, are some of the lowest form of evidence used by any group of professionals. They are awful in almost every way, the very...

Oh. I kind of missed the full implications of that. Finding that 86% of those who fit their made-up "rule-in signs" report no such symptoms, in a made-up illness concept that is defined entirely by having symptoms without a precisely-known cause. This is the kind of result that normally...

Worse than odd. This is extremely bad and confused. It's not clear who wrote this. Dr Shepherd is shown in a card at the bottom of the page, but I doubt he did. And I'm not sure who wrote this part, an extract from another text: It's just absurdly wrong. This has nothing to do with a "dominant...

It's very difficult to determine because for any case where someone only has vaccination as the trigger they observed, it could be that a mild or asymptomatic infection was the real cause. But the opposite can also be true. If only we could have rigorous studies examining this before it was...

I doubt they care about that. They don't see the overlap, believe that pseudoscience is fine for pseudo-illnesses as most of the profession does. Principles more malleable than silly putty.

The wheels on the bus go thump-thump-thump, thump-thump-thump.

Like I keep saying, without science, the rest of health care is pretty much on the same level as business consulting. Especially delusional business consulting, to be fair. Plus, they're both very expensive and super cheap. Anyone showing graphics like this is not being serious about what...

Wow, that's close to the worst reply he could have come up with. Misunderstands the issue, mixes up unrelated problems, talks about it as some future problem, only significant if another pandemic comes along, and clearly has no intention of doing anything about it. All because the medical...

In a package in which no one should trust that the information will not be misused. It will be misused, guaranteed. In secret, behind closed doors.

That can't be the case because of mRNA vaccines. It's so disappointing how big of a clue this is, how it means that there is a common factor that both vaccines, including mRNA ones, and infections must trigger, but everything is still locked in place after all this time. But we've seen...

This page should be flagged. It definitely doesn't meet wikipedia standards.

I guess that can come out as some defense, but it's very hard to misinterpret things this much. The language in the guideline is clear enough, so it's really unconvincing either way. Paraphrasing here, but there's exactly zero way to misinterpret "do not offer treatment programs based on...

Yeah this is really impressive.

Yes, patients who report cognitive problems report cognitive problems. And, yes, we need "effective, tailored interventions". Just like on day one. Just like for decades before that. Nothing's changed. It's as if it's them who are in a state of perpetual amnesia and executive impairment...

Senator, when have you stopped beating your wife? Political polling also has the same problem when asking vague questions, such as asking people whether the country is headed in the right or wrong direction. Many will give the same answer for completely opposite reasons, while many will give a...

A principle that has rarely failed me: the answer to a question is rarely the solution to the problem. Biopsychosocial is basically the systematic asking of irrelevant questions. Yup. They were just answering the question as it was asked. It's obvious that asking a psychosocial-framed question...

The sad truth is at all human affairs are. Everyone is out of their depth and winging it all the time. Some pretend otherwise and cause disaster. Others know it and are more careful about it. You can guess which type has more sway.

Tokens always get spent.

In the Garner emails lobbying the Canadian COVID guideline program, he made it clear he doesn't care about one program or another. He promoted several in there as being equal, he doesn't seem to have any particular interest toward one or the other. As long as it's couched in mind-body woo...