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If so much criticism is of CBT/GET here, it's because of all the different schools of thought, its theoretical foundation is one of the most absurd, the quality of science the most consistently flawed despite significant funding and credentialed authors, and also the most widely applied...

I believe the "non-selective" means that it also allows other cations to pass. Cations include sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium and others. TRPM3 is most prominently expressed in the kidney with lower expression levels in the central and peripheral nervous systems, testis, and retina. Do...

One could argue that the lack of transparency protecting the CBT/GET people is one of the privileges that has corrupted them. All this privilege and never any consequences for bad behaviour is how they ended up in this mess. They wanted to be our saviours but structural problems in academia and...

Some thoughts. We want to have pictures to accompany articles because pictures make articles more attractive and can communicate things that language cannot. But ME/CFS is an invisible illness, except maybe in those patients that are very severely affected. Photos of the very severely ill...

Most of the twitter summary is okay but this part shows the BPS bias of the authors. They're already using causal language and talk about vicious circles and evoking vague mind-body mechanism. Maybe brain fog has nothing at all to do with complicated biopsychosocial interplays and chain of...

My understanding is that the proposals must be from organizations in the Netherlands, and the named collaborators must also be from the Netherlands. It's worded so that it might allow collaborators from other countries under specific circumstances. The request to write the proposal in English...

I believe in a biomedical solution because the just-try-harder and the think-myself-well and the good-lifestyle approaches didn't work. And also because over time my illness worsened and it becomes harder to believe in non-biomedical solutions with increasing illness severity. This depiction of...

Garner's behaviour explains so much about Cochrane, doesn't it? The anti-pharma and the pro-lifestyle changes bias. In the end it all seems to come down to difficulty adjusting to the reality of having a mortal, vulnerable body and the existence of terrible uncontrollable diseases. I can...

The petitioner gave a very good speech, quickly describing the level of impairment and desperation of patients, the unbelievable neglect, psychologization, and economic impact. Also the expectation that cases will rise substantially due to the pandemic. The petitioner said that his disability...

I haven't watched this yet.

The first step to building that is to recognize the need for it.

Very good article, thank you.

The patients had a "concurrent history of mold exposure". It's not clear to me what that means. Were the patients living in moldy buildings? Were they living in them at some point in their lives, maybe years ago? There also needs to be a control group because it could be a situation where...

I still can't process that Flottorp is apparently a trained scientist with an interest in quality of evidence and yet appears to believe in the lightning process on the basis of anecdotes and junk studies.

Florist diagnoses her own strongyloidiasis infection https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10503761/Florist-57-agony-dismissed-FIVE-years-lethal-snake-parasite-body.html

I wonder how many cases of disability from ME/CFS secondary to covid can be attributed to Per Fink's false claim that there is no relationship between infection and ME/CFS. Maybe none because the decision to withdraw the anti-covid measures wasn't based on this information. Maybe it was central.

With Per Fink giving advice, it's not surprising that Denmark is acting like long covid doesn't exist.

I looked a bit at that. It says "bodily distress disorder" is a term used to refer to ME/CFS. It says the illness is determined by cultural factors, that the illness is only seen in some countries and that prevalence in the US is sharply declining. No references are given if I remember right...

... then the protagonist discovers this is impossible and has to invent a cure instead, which turns out to be easier.