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I made the mistake to search a SW quote I remember I found most telling -- stating that it's irrelvant to distinguish whether people actually have ME or have the belief of having ME.*) Couldn't find it. (@chrisb ?) Instead I faced the abundance of SW's inconsistent quotes (not all of them...

Not necessarily in my opinion. The way the investigators report and promote the results seems to be problematic though.

The most exciting news for me was to see Chris Ponting as the first expert on the SMC website. Also, his critque seems to be the most relevant. Is he also being quoted in the media coverage? It's a pity the Stanford press release didn't do better. "Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome...

Don't know either. I guess this is going to get rather thrilling either way due to the reasons others wrote before. Hopefully, Berkley's crowdfunding website won't break down on April 30th. ;) I could only spare a very tiny contribution and split that up between an even tinier amount via the...

I would like to see a similiar piece, perhaps with shorter questions, in the New York Times or the Guardian.

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2019/04/17/tuller-bad-science-biopsycosocial-chronic-fatigue-me-cfs/

Has this new paper by Stone et al been mentioned yet? Indrit Bègue, Caitlin Adams, Jon Stone, David L. Perez (2019) Structural alterations in functional neurological disorder and related conditions: A software and hardware problem? , NeuroImage: Clinical, In Press, Accepted Manuscript...

... but an illness: https://www.neurosymptoms.org/limb-weakness/4594358036 There seems to be a difference between disease and illness? (I have to admit that I don't understand the difference. The German language has the terms "Krankheit" and "Erkrankung", but I'm not sure if they mean...

Agreed. However, as others have pointed out, the term 'functional neurological disorder' sometimes seems only to replace the name, but not the concept of conversion disorder. In addition, the cited figures might indicate that many more conditions than FND in the strict sense of the term are...