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  1. TiredSam

    Analysis of minister’s response in Westminster Hall PACE debate

    This bothers me every time I read it. I am a mild sufferer, by which I mean life-changingly ill but not completely housebound. GET and CBT should not be recommended for mild sufferers, because it will just make them moderate and then severe. If we are talking about ME/CFS then GET does not offer...
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    How to follow up on the Carol Monaghan debate in Westminster

    30 years has a Hillsborough-like ring to it. Perhaps now it's our turn?
  3. TiredSam

    Norway and prof. Gundersen: PACE-debate in newspaper Morgenbladet

    You mean inviting all his colleagues to join?
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    Norway and prof. Gundersen: PACE-debate in newspaper Morgenbladet

    As far as I'm aware he hasn't applied to join us, but if he did I would usher him politely in.
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    Tues 20 Feb | UK parliamentary debate: PACE trial and its effect on people with ME - Carol Monaghan, MP

    He's not really talking to her, but making a vacuous statement to everyone else, saying "read it before you criticize it", knowing that most people won't or can't. He's been patronising the wrong 17 million people for years, and he's showing no signs of stopping, or realising that we have been...
  6. TiredSam

    BBC video, 'when mental health gets physical'

    I watched the video in the OP for less than thirty seconds. Up to the point where the narrator, who was gabbling on, said "mental health has physical symptoms too" and then raced on to her next point. Let's press pause right there. Let's think about what she just said, and how many ways that...
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    Tues 20 Feb | UK parliamentary debate: PACE trial and its effect on people with ME - Carol Monaghan, MP

    It's also another way of saying "You only have to read it and you'll understand why we are right. What? You lack the scientific background to read it? Here, let me explain it to you ..." And now she can walk the walk.
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    Tues 20 Feb | UK parliamentary debate: PACE trial and its effect on people with ME - Carol Monaghan, MP

    This is Michael Sharpe's snooty way of saying "Hey everyone, she hasn't even read it!" Which he cannot possibly know. Didn't she say in the debate that her training was in science? Of course she's bloody read it. If that ill-informed catty remark is the best you've got Mr Sharpe, you need change...
  9. TiredSam

    Research in progress: A Unified Mechanism for Functional Neurological Symptoms, 2015 to 2018, Edwards et al

    What on earth are we going to be compared to next? I don't mind Naviaux comparing me to a nematode worm but I won't have Mark Edwards and his mates getting cheeky.
  10. TiredSam

    Quotes from scientists who appreciate the support of PWME

    https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/diamond-geezer
  11. TiredSam

    Public The big fat lie: Britons eat 50% more than they say

    Will that be a Wessely-Whopper or a Whitey-Double-Whopper? Pork pie with that?
  12. TiredSam

    Public The big fat lie: Britons eat 50% more than they say

    I love the way the unit of measurement is a Big Mac. Perhaps we should adopt our own unit of measurement, for example "Results in this study were inflated by a Wessely". Which leads to the question - which is bigger, a Wessely or a Crawley? Perhaps we need a sliding scale.
  13. TiredSam

    Netherlands - Women in science are missing out on dozens of millions of euros

    1. The subject of this thread and the OP is an article about gender inequality in university professorships / the under-representation of women in science. This is an acceptable subject to raise in the "Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS" forum. 2. From post 2 onwards the discussion...
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    The economic burden of CFS/ME: an initial summary of the existing evidence and recommendations for further research (Brenna & Gitto, 2017)

    I'd like to see the evidence for this. We are often accused of wasting doctors' time, when the reality may well be that many of us are in hiding from the health service and engage as little as possible. When I read the thread title I actually thought it might be a sympathetic paper on the...
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