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Final blog post in the "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics" series by Jeannette Burmeister: The NIH Intramural ME Study: “Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics” (Part 4) Ends with a call to action:

Widespread impacts to precipitation of the East Palestine Ohio train accident 19 June 2024 David A Gay, Katelan Blaydes, James J Schauer, Martin Shafer "From these two maps, it is very clear that extreme concentrations of multiple pollutants were present over a widespread area during the days...

They posted this: (I accidentally deleted the question they are responding to. Basically asking if they split their original study by individuals or simply by cells.) As I say in response, I think I might have misinterpreted what they meant by "samples" in the paper when they said "the train...

Not 100% sure what's going on in this study, but here's the introduction with an overview:

Plasma proteomics identify biomarkers predicting Parkinson’s disease up to 7 years before symptom onset Jenny Hällqvist, Michael Bartl, Mohammed Dakna, Sebastian Schade, Paolo Garagnani, Maria-Giulia Bacalini, Chiara Pirazzini, Kailash Bhatia, Sebastian Schreglmann, Mary Xylaki, Sandrina Weber...

Many symptoms in long COVID and other post infection conditions, like fatigue, pain, and brain fog, are hard to test for and it's easy for someone on the outside to say those are caused by maladaptive thought processes even if someone is experiencing them. What are some other well documented or...

Beyond the serotonin deficit hypothesis: communicating a neuroplasticity framework of major depressive disorder Chloe E. Page, C. Neill Epperson, Andrew M. Novick, Korrina A. Duffy, Scott M. Thompson Abstract The serotonin deficit hypothesis explanation for major depressive disorder (MDD) has...

ABC: 'Not everyone who uses a wheelchair is paralysed. This is what ambulatory users want you to know' "It's a similar story for Kate Pern, an ambulatory wheelchair user who lives with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a debilitating multi-system illness that gets...

Retraction Watch: 'Expression of concern coming for paper some used to link COVID-19 vaccines to deaths' BMJ Expression of concern: "The integrity team and editors are investigating issues raised regarding the quality and messaging of this work. The Princess Máxima Centre, which is listed as...

I think "Pycnogenol" is a single specific formulation of pine bark extract, with the name trademarked by a company.

I wish I could watch a video of these presentations. Feels a bit surreal to see PEM as the presentation topic for all the students.

Salivary biomarkers as pioneering indicators for diagnosis and severity stratification of pediatric long COVID Sylwia D Tyrkalska, Fernando Pérez-Sanz, Lorena Franco-Martínez, Camila P Rubio, Asta Tvarijonaviciute, Silvia Martínez-Subiela, María Méndez-Hernández, Alba González-Aumatell, Clara...

I hear that. I'm not confident it is the case that spreading awareness and sharing research about this field is counter-productive, but I can maybe see an argument for that. I'm too tired for trying to navigate the politics of research, though I get that it's a big factor in things like this...

This is the study they cite for promising results in post-COVID condition: Preventive effects of Pycnogenol® on cardiovascular risk factors (including endothelial function) and microcirculation in subjects recovering from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) "BACKGROUND: The aim of this open...

Thread about a study of Pycnogenol for fibromyalgia

Effects of Pycnogenol® in people with post-COVID-19 condition (PYCNOVID): study protocol for a single-center, placebo controlled, quadruple-blind, randomized trial Thomas Radtke, Lisa Künzi, Julia Kopp, Manuela Rasi, Julia Braun, Kyra D. Zens, Babette Winter, Alexia Anagnostopoulos, Milo A...

Links between air pollution and COVID-19 in England Marco Travaglio, Yizhou Yu, Rebeka Popovic, Liza Selley, Nuno Santos Leal, Luis Miguel Martins Environmental Pollution January 2021 "Abstract In December 2019, a novel disease, coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), emerged in Wuhan, People’s...

HYPOTESIS: We underestimate the risk of chemicals in water and food in ME/CFS Henrik Nielsen EUROMENE Book of Abstracts, p. 10, March 2020 "When conventional organisations of farmers and industry inform that the use of pesticides, chemicals and heavy metal are safe, they make an error. It is...

I'm halfway through Part 3 of Jeannette's blog, and I am much less happy with this study. When Walter Koroshetz said in the symposium something like "effort preference means something different to neurologists; we use it for unconscious moment to moment decisions", I just assumed that was true...