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Here's the opening paragraph of the PEM section in the IOM report https://www.nap.edu/read/19012/chapter/6#78 The authors don't seem to have read this part, as it clearly says that "PEM is more than fatigue following a stressor".

(but we will if you don't start funding research soon)

When a lack of energy makes activities of daily living unsustainable. Followed by a list of activities that are affected.

Open access means that the public who paid for all this would no longer have to also pay the publisher to access scientific papers.

For those who have not been following this topic, the way Elsevier earns money is basically by having researchers do work paid for by taxpayers and doing unpaid peer review, then selling access to the published papers back to researchers.

Full text here https://sci-hub.hk/https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12689 I was skeptical about this claim and suspected that they had used a flawed definition of PEM. I therefore looked at the methodology. Here is what I found: They retrospectively attempted to determine whether patients met IOM...

I am often in good mood in the morning, despite also experiencing symptoms.

It's not representative of the majority of patients. About 25% of patients are severe and bedbound but of those only some are so severely ill that living death becomes an accurate description.

Interesting that people who claim to have suffered damage from the HPV vaccine are apparently labelled as suffering from psychogenic symptoms. This just fuels distrust towards the medical establishment.

That she's heading a clinic that sells this treatment has of course nothing to do with her motivation to help children.

It's an interesting paper :thumbup:

The stigma and disbelief is in part fueled by the all in the mind narrative promoted by Wessely et al. They would disagree they are sending out this message but it's hard to interpret their statement about illness beliefs perpetuating the illness any differently. Some relevant statements by...

Subtext? The message is right there in figure 1: cognitive symptoms are the result of patients paying too much attention to functional symptoms. A lot of this functional/psychosomatic nonsense seems to be born out of an emotional need to silence patients complaining about symptoms that cannot...

Some people like tripe soup. :confused:

The exorcists were baffled that nobody wanted them to do their best trying to rid patients of their demonic possession. They agreed it must be due to stigma against demonic possession.

It's worth looking at what these mental explanations actually say: they are the accusation of laziness and hysteria in disguise and a form of illness denial (referring to the idea that the illness is perpetuated by deconditioning and beliefs). They are insulting for their content, not because...

What does it mean that anonymous experts are quoted in defense of GET?

These guys need to work on their obfuscation skills. It's too obvious this is just bullshit.

Poor Alem. That's horrible. It's upsetting to know that there must be a significant number of patients who are so severely ill they have even difficulties communicating with the world.

I also found this interesting Are we dealing with multiple illnesses that share the same metabolic response? @alex3619 That is a genetically defined metabolic survival strategy.