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He was Secretary of State from 2012 to 2018. I am amenable to the argument, should anyone care to make it, that, as such, he was in no position to influence government policy, but many things could have been differently in those years. He was happy to take on the junior doctors - less happy to...

EDIT in response to Andy Yes...but what fundamentals have changed since the time he was in office. For these purposes press interest is not deemed fundamental.

I just feel sympathy for someone who, after 14 weeks or so, regards that as a long haul. There is still much to experience.

"He said it was good to push James into relapses." Presumably that statement is not supported by any experiment conducted on James and relies wholly on inferences drawn from other evidence. Surely there has never been any evidence from trials to support such a conclusion. It must be doubtful...

Preparations may be in hand for a change of strategy. Someone I know, who is no more vulnerable today than two months ago, has just received a letter notifying of the vulnerable status and told to remain indoors for three months and, if sharing accommodation, to isolate from the other person. An...

We need to look at the evolution of this idea and its relationship to ME and its use as a way of bypassing concerns. Does anyone know, off the top of their head, the first use of the term and by whom it was used? I feel that it was used by the mid 1990's, and feel that Sharpe was an early user...

Essentially that the personal characteristics of the patients and in particular their presumed psychological vulnerability led to the perpetuation of symptoms. This was the work carried out on staff at Fort Detrick funded by the US Army Chemical Corps. It was introduced to the UK by Eisenberg in...

I wish someone would ask him whether he believes that Imboden et al's conclusions as to the factors leading to perpetuation of symptoms after Asian flu will hold good for Covid 19, and, if not, why he thought them relevant to ME, and how he distinguishes them.

Does not the realisation of the depletion of one's bank account count as a downside or unpleasant side-effect?t

Time to roll out the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. It always worked in the past.

That was not the sort of matter I had in mind.

My post is off topic and I do not wish to derail the thread but I would like to posit this idea for people's contemplation. Is this wholly inappropriate response to a problem driven by an awareness of the CMRC constitution in its early form. There seems an eerie similarity to the much trumpeted...

Is the silence to be expected, given the likely advice which might be given by "m' learned friends"?

Can it really be true that "philosophers of science" are engaged in such a silly enterprise as "debating the specific identity of the condition"? EITED for typos

Do they make clear what specific measures in the research will seek to overcome this apparent bias?

Furthermore, it is difficult to think of a pathological mechanism by which gradual increased activity could be harmful,8'9 even in the minority of patients with clear cut neuromuscular pathology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1371151/pdf/brjgenprac00083-0040.pdf I suspect that...

Is this a new idea? A presentation alone is sufficient to constitute scientific evidence? Surely that would be mere anecdote. Looks like there needs to be a change of name to ANZMESS. The additional "S" could stand for "secret".

In Whitty's defence, he does not specify that exercise is a "good thing" (whatever that might be) for the individual patient. It seems to be some abstract notion of "good thingness" that he is contemplating

It seems reasonable to assume that people who never learned the art of punctuation, as indicated by their first sentence, are unlikely to be able to describe complex ideas. Where should that comma go? EDIT This may be thought to be nit-picking. It is not. The authors describe "relationships"...

That "little joke" by White seems entirely unprofessional. Whatever happened to "equipoise"? Get him on a witness stand, somebody.