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Interesting that he believes that. Fatigue is not an alarm signal. This has got to be one of the most common myths of all and professionals who continue to believe this, clearly they are not critical thinkers. Severe pain is the alarm signal. There is no need for any other. So it is clear...

Time for a poll? I have chronic rhinitis, but I didn't think everyone had it.

These factors on their own shouldn't explain the difference, hence we can strongly suggest there are participation biases in this study and the results are not representative of the general public.

Presumably plants must be suffering from negative thoughts before they are infected with plant viruses.

I might have time to explain in more detail later, but for now: We cannot conclude either way, due to flawed testing/modelling. It is important to point out three aspects: (a) people feel fatigue at far lower levels of exertion and only rarely exert maximally hence the body never relies on a...

Note, the first author is Georgina Newton (not to be confused with Julia Newton) along with colleagues at the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham. I disagree on (c) and (d). The problem is the wrong instruments have been used for (c) (supramaximal...

Pity this yak dung effect doesn't translate well to humans.

Almost nothing in the "self perpetuating spiral" has been demonstrated as leading to the next step.

This is an interesting proposal, but I note with caution that due to significant variations in daily activities, it can be difficult to separate the noise from the signal, unless they use long sampling times, or a large sample size. As such, the feasibility study will simply demonstrate that the...

Classic neuro-babble.

PhD students are all required to write and publish literature reviews (and it's not uncommon for post-docs to do the same).

https://www.students4bestevidence.net/blog/2016/04/05/tutorial-hazard-ratios/

Exactly. They talk about "worse CBT outcome for patients", but they only measured questionnaire answering behaviour. Those relationship factors may well alter how someone answers a questionnaire, even if there is no difference in participants underlying health!

I don't think that is the right tool for the job, because the problem is not excess of platelets but vascular dysregulation. Other physicians have reported thromboembolic events despite patients being on blood thinners...

It's too late now! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes, I went back and looked at the article again and realised my mistake, so deleted that post. Surprised you managed to read it in the 2 minutes it was up!

This comes across as a backhanded dismissal of the importance of post-viral syndromes (and CFS & ME). Doctors should be taking such symptoms seriously regardless of the cause! But that is not what he is implying.

I noticed that too, I can't help but be a little suspicious as to the reasons why... Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CqzKjwOa6WYJ:https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18437238.coronavirus-scotland-charity-warns-covid-will-cause-spike-cases/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au

The notable part is not what is written in the manuscript, but the fact that it will mostly be ignored in clinical practise as most readers will recognise it for what it is: mediocre quality research.

It's always a bit suspicious when authors quote p values, but not effect sizes in the abstract. Usually the intent is to mislead naive readers (medical doctors who only read abstracts) into thinking there is a large effect, when there is barely an effect at all.