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And we know for a fact the same thing is happening with LC, it's extremely rare to receive disability support outside of very specific diagnoses that are considered permanent. I am not recorded as being disabled, technically I'm just a loafer on welfare. I don't even mention my diagnosis when I...

And yet there are at least as many trials of rehabilitation for ME/CFS, even more when going for the generic concept of "chronic fatigue", like Cochrane did, but most 'systematic reviews' only ever look at a couple dozen at most, and they do so in a way that completely hides the fact that most...

This makes it several studies showing unexpected benefits from vaccination that have nothing to do, as far as we know, with the pathogens the vaccine inoculates against. Benefits in cancer survival, reductions in dementia, and others I can't remember. This feels like a new frontier that is...

And yet this has been the standard approach from the start, so there is no "can be" here, we know it doesn't, because if it did work we'd know and LC wouldn't even be a problem. The idea of testing the standard approach and comparing it to a variation of itself is so cynical even I'm maxing out...

I don't think we'd ever get an honest answer, or even an honest off-hand comment, but there's something about that bizarre framing of "not medical, not psychiatric, not psychological either, some combination of all of those" that, mixed with the same framing of "not a cure, not a treatment, it's...

It was but this is all about power flexing its muscles over people it has complete control over. There is nothing that can be done against a system that has decided to fail, that insists that failure is the only thing they accept. They will always try to screw us over, and if we ever get close...

Reality is probably even worse than that, in that it's likely far more than 30% since medicine can't identify most problems economically, and so doesn't bother. Likely more than half of GP consults include several enumerations of symptoms that the clinician can't/won't identify mainly because...

Yeah this one is a doozy alright. How would that even work? People were encouraged to test more during the pandemic, to control the spread when sick. And then? If it was back then, what? The habit remained, despite no longer happening? How does that translate into GP consults? Going to see a GP...

Yeah, that horse has left the barn a long time ago and took residence at the local hospital. It's way too late for that, which puts the need toward treatments because even if prevention resumed tomorrow, it's way too many people affected already, and the first layer of resistance isn't even with...

I have no idea why they use the "psychobiological" term. There's discussion of PEM and ME/CFS, which isn't too far off course. They clearly mean typical biopsychosocial, but seem less militant about it. Maybe biopsychosocial is starting to lose its shine? I don't know.

All they confirmed with those methods is that those methods aren't worth a damn. The whole damn thing. They distort reality by saying there is no cure for Long Covid, when they should have said there are no treatments, and if exercise therapy is not supposed to be a treatment, then what the hell...

Only one "behavior" was identified, and even then it's not strictly behavior so much as recommendations and availability. I cannot get vaccinated anymore here, not even for the flu, so if there's anything to modify for patients, it's the systems. Unless maybe cancer patients do qualify for it...

Is it really bias if you really, really badly want it to be true to the point of doing anything to make it appear so? Is a legitimate awkward question to ask because the answer here is clearly yes, and yet it's treated as if it's not.

This stuff has nothing to do with stress, though. Among many, many other problems with it. Most of this stuff has been pushed for decades by business consultants, to boost productivity. It has failed, and mostly stopped. The whole idea is silly anyway. Now there is a trend to go with things...

It's so obvious how if this discipline is to achieve anything, they will need to separate the people developing interventions from those testing them. There is obviously no amount of internal checks that can account for the extreme biases at play. The idea that people will properly test...

I can't believe we actually have to spend energy debunking a speculative model without any evidence, as opposed to a speculative model where the evidence doesn't support the model, but it's really absurd how decades of fraudulently claiming that there is evidence for psychosomatic models and now...

Hence the whole "unhelpful beliefs" garbage they've been pushing on us. It doesn't make any sense but if it's simply used as an assertion of power within a complete power imbalance, then it doesn't matter. It's the same process as a tyrannical government where secret judgments are rendered with...

"Content-dependent". Just making shit up. Same difference. No one has ever bothered expanding on the numerous problems with this, and they sure don't bother here either. Edit: Actually, it's even worse than that. They acknowledge that it requires context to do that, but that they didn't bother...

According to astrology, astrology is correct That's.... that's just medicine. And illness, i.e. symptoms. Literally this is just illness. This is what medicine has always been about. Illness is now a mental illness. Always has been. Maybe won't be for a few years, then back again. Repeat the...

In a sane world, it wouldn't even have been anything but an odd curiosity. It our world it will keep expanding until it crashes, because it's fundamentally a political and cultural concept more than a technical one, or at least, it's massively over-hyped for purely political/ideological and...