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Don't be so discouraged about the answers on the other forum. It is literally one nice & young girl who just likes to see the best in people, probably a couple of people who just don't even know what to say and there are really only like 10 regular posters over there. We don't have a real German...

Just a couple quick thoughts: - Gysi may actually not be the worst idea anyone has had today, especially if he is involved himself (not just running the agency) and understands that this whole mess and the possibly criminal inaction of our government exposes his life-long political adversaries...

Some more history regarding tobacco in this context: https://jcoynester.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/when-simon-wessely-shoved-a-hans-eysenck-scandal-under-the-rug/ I think it is interesting that we collectively have not found a way to reliably beat this kind of stuff into the ground as soon as it...

Well, if we have to actually prove intent for §278 it will be really hard to ever get anyone sentenced under it as 'I am a moron and all my colleagues are morons, we don't really mean anything by it' is hard to disprove as a defense from and outside standpoint. Being dangerously incompetent and...

Ok so maaaaaybe you weren't the one writing those couple of letters but you are the one with the NGO-background/experience we need and who is informed of everything that's going on, so, you know, that's pretty useful anyway :) I'll invoke the ancient ritual of violently crossing my fingers for...

Thanks @Joh for yet again already fighting all the good fights while we're still wasting time brainstorming about how to properly philosophize about fighting in general! Good to hear we finally have a patient organization that is effective.

Sorry for not participating more, I've been pretty non-functional the last couple of weeks. You know how it is sometimes ;) I don't really know how the system for continuing education works for medical professionals and what the requirements are (i.e. how much they have to do and how any...

Well, for a start we can probably take a look at this document our wonderful JaimeS put together. From the roadmap document Hip put together: 'ARUP Lab in Utah, USA offers such microneutralization antibody tests for coxsackievirus B and echovirus which cost around $440 each.' As far as I know...

I am brainstorming/thinking out loud now... The problem is that we are largely invisible to the system. We need to provide objective evidence of functional impairment and pathology as far as possible. What do we have? - 2 day CPET (for those who can survive this) - ARUP labs enterovirus tests...

I meant that I would be interested to know why the Ärztekammer NR felt pressured at all and who handled this issue, because I suspect that the people who put out the last document may not have been the same people who gave the order to retract it. Sure, the overall attitude of the medical...

If I knew what my symptoms meant I would not need to see a doctor to have him/her interpret them for me. That is sort of the whole point. Not speaking about the cited study but just very generally, calculating costs based on which tests were unnecessary with the power of hindsight is meaningless...

I would like to propose a new rule: Before publication, whoever submitted a study in any kind of psychology-affiliated department must first and foremost beat the Turing test. I am increasingly convinced we are dealing with bots that put these things together from strings of random sentences...

I really do wonder how that went down internally. Maybe the psychs put out the papers and an actual doctor/scientist got to handle the letters that were sent to the Kammer... Yes that is all true, but what I tried to get at was that in reality these documents do not often change the opinions...

I was being an idiot, my browser addons blocked the script and I didn't reload the page after unblocking so the translator remained broken. Sorry for that...

The success with the Kammer from NRW was a bit of a non-victory if they can simply re-release what is essentially the same document. I don't know how that went last time and why they felt they had to retract it. In any case, I am not actually sure how much impact any of those guidelines have in...

Umm, I meant the proper channels regarding whom to send their responses to and how to best coordinate efforts so the DEGAM people can't just ignore it. As far as I know some of the main drivers behind the protest against the last document had a bit of a falling out amongst themselves and may not...

It is extremely difficult to convince the people responsible for this stuff with coherent arguments because you are arguing with the German branch of the hardest-core-wessleyites you will ever encounter. The Ärztekammer Nordrhein was responsible for the last version of this document, and they...