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Sarin Gas as blamed for Gulf War Illness - BBC I don't know whether this will hold up, but it makes sense. I wonder what Wesseley and his mates in the British defence forces think of this.

Mine too - perfect. Just to be clear, although I don't think anyone is suggesting it, the Pretorius story doesn't involve high or low platelet counts. They do talk about platelet activation. Has any properly independent lab confirmed the finding of micro clots? Presumably it's not that...

Is there any evidence for childhood abuse causing brain inflammation that stands up better to scrutiny than this study?

This is indeed a paper that keeps on giving. Yes, for Table 2, all of the percentages for reports of various childhood abuses are wrong Table 2 - total 300 women Emotional abuse 56/300 = 18.7% not 20% Humiliation 48/300 = 16.0% not 17% Threat 20/300 = 6.7% not 8% Sexual abuse...

While it's true that Table 2 shows that an association between sexual abuse and MS was significant, I thought it was fair to say that the paper in its entirety doesn't constitute evidence of an association between childhood abuse and MS as claimed by the authors: This is because 1. the other...

Thanks Joan. This paper was a bit different, as they asked the women to recall childhood abuse after childhood but before most of the women who went on to develop MS had done so. (Only 97 out of 397 had MS at the time they answered the survey.) Actually the women who had already developed MS...

Sure, but this study didn't actually find any correlation between MS and childhood or adolescent 1. humiliation (‘Has anyone over a long period of time systematically tried to subdue, degrade or humiliate you?’), 2. threat (‘Has anyone threatened to hurt you or someone close to you?’), 3. or...

Thanks for sharing this @Wyva. That's sad news; the frustration of Mr Choutka is apparent and very understandable. I'm sure the effort will have brought better care of people with ME/CFS in the Czech Republic nearer, even if it is still some way off. There must be doctors in the Czech Medical...

I think this is worth looking at. (Just as background - This is from a Cochrane resource https://s4be.cochrane.org/blog/2016/04/05/tutorial-hazard-ratios/ The authors of this MS paper acknowledge this, noting that hazard ratios for confidence intervals that include 1 are regarded as not...

The supplementary materials has this about the adjustments. No further detail is given. It's worth noting that these adjustments relate to the woman at the time of the study, when she was pregnant. The fact that the woman is a single mother or has a low household income now is not a perfect...

One last observation. It looks as though these pregnant women were asked if they had ever suffered from the three kinds of abuse, so as a child, but also as an adult. The findings relating to abuse as an adult are not reported in this study. Perhaps they will be reported in another paper. Or...

Yes. It's conceivable that traumatic experiences in childhood do somehow make a person more susceptible to later developing MS. But, there are other more likely explanations for an association between childhood abuse and MS, with poverty likely to be the common factor. Further on the...

The reported percentage of the women in the sample who reported childhood abuse developing MS was 0.49%, compared to 0.36% in the women who didn't report childhood abuse. So, if the 0.36% incidence in the women who didn't report childhood abuse had applied to the 14477 women who reported...

https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/2022/03/08/jnnp-2021-328700 Abstract Objective To study whether exposure to childhood emotional, sexual or physical abuse is associated with subsequent multiple sclerosis (MS) development. Methods A nationwide, prospective cohort study based on participants...

(I'm basing my comments only on the info in the article.). This has the hallmarks of a company selling snake oil. They are planning to do a market research study - this seems to involve asking consumers if they liked the product. Studies like these tend to produce positive statements that are...

from the NZ Doctor "In this article from the Public Health Expert blog, we review the impact of Aotearoa NZ’s Covid-19 response strategies on mortality patterns during the first 2 years of the pandemic. We find that NZ experienced an increase in life expectancy, decreased winter mortality, and...

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Oh, for goodness sake. I haven't been tracking Gez Medinger closely, but I thought he had been reasonably sensible. Seems he's succumbing to the idea that personality and trauma are responsible for getting Long Covid. I guess the idea that you can overcome Long Covid by fixing your...

If you or anyone wants to do a project like that, please consider whether it might be able to be part of the forum somehow. I expect the committee would be happy to consider ideas.

I am surprised that Paul Garner would draw attention to this poor study of 'pain reprocessing therapy'. If I was one of the select group of people that Paul Garner allows to reply to his nonsense, I would say: 1. It is interesting that Paul Garner chose to praise this particular study, as it...