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Oh, did the Potemkin clinics with BS pseudoscience treatments that don't work not do the trick? How about, pseudoscience but, like, 2x over? Surely that ought to be twice as zero. This is basically like trying to deal with an incoming asteroid with prayers and magic spells, maybe some dancing...

Basically: "here, wing it". It's absurd how casually it's admitted that psychiatry is a dumping ground for medicine, and yet everyone pretends otherwise. And of course this is because there is no accountability. If there were accountability this practice would end quickly. But making psychiatry...

So the neoliberal sub is actually more rational and less conspiratorial about this than the medicine sub? lmao

So we're going to get both "no one took the serotonin hypothesis seriously in years" and "we've always known about the serotonin hypothesis" at the same time, uh? Because immediately after the paper people went out of their way to point out that no one has taken it seriously in years, even...

That was a good thread. And she took the Wise guy to task about his awful article with solid points. Tufekci was dismissive of Long Covid at first, mocked it with a few other still-minimizers. So it annoys some people but it's so rare for someone to misunderstand at first and actually correct...

I've been watching a few of his interactions over the last few days and it's almost like this dude is running PR and marketing for the BPS model, talking exactly like them, the same arguments and excuses. Something's fishy here. He is very pushy, arguing over a position that it's irrefutable...

Good grief, do they think ML is about magically solving unsolved problems? You can't train a neural network without a solution to the problem, it's literally what it uses to learn. Machine learning is similar to human learning, it requires rapid and accurate feedback about how close an answer is...

WTH is wrong with these people? This is childish nonsense. At this point I'm half-expecting CBT course for how to tie our shoes because this feels like some sort of Teletubbies alternate universe.

People do their job, no more. Here it's not expected that they should be careful, as the issue as been de-medicalized. It exempts them from any obligation, literally not their job as far as they are concerned. And more importantly: as far as their employer is concerned. They are doing their job...

Malboro --- We care about your health Facebook --- We value your privacy Literally any bank --- We're not really in this for the money Big mega chemical corp --- Because the environment is sooo important Although frankly, pretty much equal.

Hey, it's not like Fauci literally had decades to do this. Then about 2 years when it started, then grew constantly. Time during which he said things, but did nothing. I doubt he's much involved at NIH anymore so it's probably out of his hands but until the discussion turns inwards, is willing...

Good thing that no one ever said the first part then, since it's the 2nd part that's true. A small lobbying organization for a commercial enterprise that exists to promote its business interest. No one ever said this is a movement. It's clearly not. It's barely, what, 40-50 people working for a...

This is the juice. The entire field has to deal with this and just can't bother. Seems like they could go on for another century pretending that it doesn't matter, objective outcomes = bad. It still confuses the outcome for the process, reducing pain or sedentary time doesn't lead to...

Well, this is awkward. After 2.5 years of hearing "we're not seeing it in our clinics" it turns out they were seeing it, just took a very long time to notice. While being warned about it the whole time and insisting otherwise. And repeating the same old pattern with LC in neurology being the...

There seem to be problematic statements (in the replies) that don't inspire confidence that our goals are aligned or that they understand the issues. But if this is serious, getting at the negotiating table is how mutually exclusive positions can get reconciled. Maybe. Unless they intend to...

Someone paying attention would notice that 3 of those 5 have Chalder as author, a PACE author, with another one by Moss-Morris, a close collaborator. So she confirmed her own claims. That's you know they're solid, obviously. One of those from Chalder is a meta review that cites PACE, is very...

Healthcare is terrible at dealing with chronic health issues, evidence #96926494634932649326432946324983264239846329436. But let's change nothing, as is tradition, and not bother with anything. Surely someone will figure it out and this problem will just stop bothering them. Surely.

Ah, so they're doing the thing where they put words into patients' mouths and pretend the patients said those things, rather than them limiting discussion to those things. Exactly like a focus group on tomato sauce that declares tomato sauce 3 is the group's favorite sauce of all time, because...

Very underwhelming. Basically "both sides" journalism presenting the voice of the abused and the abuser as of equal value. It quotes more deniers like Garner, Sharpe and Gaffney, although Wessely declined to answer. Which is probably the smartest thing he's done in his entire career. Some of...

Well of course if you try to measure the temperature of some water using a voltmeter you're going to have a bad time, even more so if you're trying to gauge how the water is feeling, which is not even measurable. If you don't do the right tests you won't get anything useful out of those tests...