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They quote a paper by Steiner, Scheibenbogen et al reporting an association between ME and PTPN22 alleles. Did we discuss that at the time, in 2020?

Well the parroting is there but not sure about the wooden leg

We get everything re-upholstered by Steve Marriage in Woodbridge who I imagine is a lot cheaper than anything in London - if the old chair is otherwise well suited. Transportation is an issue but men with vans seem easy enough to come by these days.

I thought we all knew the brain was connected to the body (it's called the neck). I thought the BPS mantra was about mind being connected to body. Four legs bad again?

Mmm... I think I prefer the dead parrot sketch.

Well there's always the dead parrot sketch.

But would a young lass fro' Yorkshire have owt to do wi' it? Maybe if she knew that where there's muck there's brass (to rhyme wi' the US pronunciation of ass).

I think the power imbalance in these situations may just be a function of how things have to be. It is the application that brings problems. What in my experience can transform a situation? One is a change of personnel. A different health care professional may handle a problem much more...

Which is the standard approach to PWME.

I am not sure that I would entirely agree with that. I have been aware all my professional life of how horrifying the system is - all those things that you mention. I learnt as medical student how disdainfully people are treated. My files as a student were marked down because of an incident when...

Just some general points. One is that I have already made it clear that psychiatric treatment can be bad as well as useful. That is a very real problem but it should not be confused with saying that psychiatric treatment is inappropriate for what may well a neuropsychiatric problem...

I don't buy the wrong cohort argument. Edwards's group were studying people that would be considered to have ME/CFS now I am pretty sure.

I think we have already said too much about an individual case. I have explained what I base my comments on.

The sort of scientific arguments that S4ME is so good at. Based on a clear line of thought about the pathophysiological possibilities.

Having read Behan's papers and having worked in Richard Edwards's lab for two years alongside the histochemists who studied muscle metabolism (David Jones, Joan Round, Mike Rennie etc.) I think this is an inappropriate analysis. Edwards concluded there was nothing to find. He may also have had...

I can see that this is the concern but in the context of a case like this it seems to me extremely unlikely. I have first hand family experience of psychiatric care of inability to eat of psychiatric origin. Some of the care was bad and some good enough to save a life. If someone is being...

I do not want together involved in discussion of an individual's diagnosis and management. However, I would urge people to stop and think whether the arguments being used here are sound. If ME is a serious condition affecting the brain, perhaps 'neuroimmune' as claimed by some organisations...

I think it is long overdue that we realise that we are colonial structures consisting of cells of variety of sorts, some with very similar DNA content, some not. Organism is a useful term for a colony but should not imply a single life unit nor should it imply a single subjective self. That is...

Aren't they supposed to be symbiotic prokaryotic cells?

Phew.