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I cannot think of any specific documents. It is such a huge question. But the simple answer is that it is just a theory - based on popular myths given scientific sounding names. We have no means of testing the idea that the mind influences the body beyond what is obvious - we walk to the fridge...

I have only read the abstract but I don't think this should be taken seriously. I have never heard of the journal which looks like a garbage bag online outfit (the blurb reads as if written by someone who knows nothing about medicine) The figures claimed for glycogen storage make no sense since...

That does not sound like confusing CFS with fatigue? Fatigue is being used as one of many symptoms Covid-19, amongst many. That would be similar to chronic fatigue syndrome where fatigue is one of many symptoms?

I think part of the problem is that MEA have for some time bought in to the idea of having a range of treatments rather than one size fits all and having services delivered by multidisciplinary teams. I have no real idea why they go for this other than that there is a widespread meme about that...

That would be my impression judging by the transcript of the interview. PWME need advocates who understand the level of ignorance within the medical profession, not those who profess to know the answer.

Indeed. how do we deal with the problem that, as currently constituted, these methods are not easily applicable to understanding the complex interface between biology and environment that occurs within humans who are ill, and therefore to studying the process of rehabilitation? You get on and...

Not LW, although he got so cynical about philosophy that it is hard to know if he believed anything at the end. Cartesian Dualism is of course itself a category error, because, as understood by the people who own the term, it bears little relation to the thinking of Rene Descartes. I would...

Cartesian dualism, innit.

I think I can get some idea of what you are experiencing, having had intangible experiences of this sort myself, if not quite this. I don't think there is a logical inconsistency. Sensations that seem to be of a certain type, devoid of any specifics to make them a case that type are not that...

I am more confident than I was. The case numbers are still much the same and deaths are falling slightly. Countries that had a recent wave earlier than us are seeing numbers drop right off. I think the current wave will be the last and will Peter out some time at the end of the year.

I doubt anybody does much. The prefrontal region is where higher thoughts and thoughts about self tend to be. So reduced activity in prefrontal region might indicate not thinking such complicated thoughts about how the pain was for oneself. Or it might indicate less in the way of thought about...

I am struggling to see how they hope to publish a paper on two patients?

Silly me, someone is marketing CBT of course, but why would Cochrane employ a marketing executive who believes in 'pushing' treatments? You can't make it up.

What on earth is that picture about? Is somebody selling degrees in business studies at Bridlington Virtual University?

Presumably a thesis? Except that the first author is about 60 and has a doctorate

There seems to me to be something badly wrong with this whole idea. What you want to do to optimise a guideline is to make sure you get information from all groups of people who may have important information about what the reliable evidence really is on what matters to patients and what can...

I suspect that they have not considered how much attempting to measure how much measuring things in trials affects measurements is likely to affect the measurements of how much measuring things affects measurements. They might need to set up a-committee to measure this.

That sounds like quasi-physiological theorising to me. I am not sure what a positive effect on the autonomic nervous system would be. I don't want to sound picky all the time but it would be good to sweep the cupboard clean when it comes to such theorising and move on to a genuinely...

And of course those who build their persona and social identity out of accumulating contrarian beliefs are likely to expect everyone else to collect beliefs. The difference from their own case being that those beliefs will be wrong - since the holders do not belong to the enlightened elite.

As others have indicated there are many ways in which far left and far right converge - Orwell is full of it - but I think this is something unrelated. This is simply a group of people who have found solace in the idea that they belong to an elite of minds who are one step cleverer than...