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It's not valid and entirely political. Truth is, the main reason why there is so much poverty, suffering and hunger is because there are people who oppose solving them. It's no longer an issue of ability, it's entirely about will. But it used to be that we simply weren't able to, we didn't...

I think that kids these days are calling this "functional". Just mild alterations of no significance, nothing that CBT can't fix with some gum and plasticity, or whatever.

So I guess they're working around the requirement that this be spent on biomedical research by just gathering the old psychosomatic team and using a wink and a nod that they'll tooootally be doing biomedical research, which authorities know fully is false. And of course they'll be doing their...

And it really should never be forgotten just how much of this there is the literature surrounding us. They may say that they don't think we are malingering/feigning, but they sure said it a lot in the past, and in the present, and in writing. It just depends on who the audience is. It's it's...

Very different thing, it's just wrong attribution, usually as a result of negligence at figuring it out, or genuine ignorance. It's like how infectious diseases used to be blamed on spirits/demons or bad air. The people were ill, not because of demons or spirits, had nothing to do with that...

And why would it not be feasible to walk across a room or brush our teeth if there's nothing wrong with us? Ridiculous nonsense. They're not talking about the acute phase here, it can be long after and when they all insist that there's nothing wrong so there should be no reason why simple things...

And that's exactly what the money wasted on this nonsense was supposed to do but instead they wasted it all on charlatans who can't produce anything of value. Scandalous. Happening in the Netherlands, in Australia, in Canada, handed to Cochrane of all people, the giant NIH fund. They're just...

The patients mean competent. They hear... whatever they want to hear.

There was a lot of talk about that on the Long Covid subreddit in the first 1-2 years. Haven't seen anything about it in at least a year. A patient community made mostly of people with no medical training is able to move on from useless treatments. And yet some professionals can carry on making...

I like this a lot better than medically unexplained. At least it's honest. Although they're very wrong about why, this has nothing to do with mental health stigmatization, it's denial. Plain old denial of other people's experience, a tale as old as our species.

Unnecessary if. They're doing it precisely in a way so that results don't matter and to make it available regardless. It's foot-in-the-door medicine, once it gets in, it never gets out. Treat it like vampires, never invite them in. What's most baffling is that this is super generic and...

Uh, I guess it's a "mild alteration" for 1/3 not being able to remain standing up for 10 minutes. It's not like being to stand up for 10 minutes is something common in every day life and has further implications. No siree. All perfectly mild.

Also, I'm about 99% certain that AI will mark the end of this ideology. It will be brutal in saying that it's complete BS. The 1% I'm leaving out is the possibility that doctors spend a few years ignoring it, trying to convince AIs that they're actually right, unable to process why such a smart...

Definitely never in the way that it is used by experts. I never really thought about it. Only heard about it vaguely and mostly never expected that experts could just make stuff up. Now having read from the actual people who did, I can clearly see that they are charlatans with extremely loose...

Or the next cohort comes along. Guaranteed. Probably not identical, but issues like this are sadly common, and they are very rarely studied at all.

Oh, dang it. Then again, modern astronomy did spring up out of astrology. It took centuries to get those measurements and it was mostly astrologers doing it for most of it. But really that's all astrology contributed, and mostly accidental.

So apparently there is an "epidemic" of brain fog in Sweden, some 200K by one estimate, and they are "super puzzled" as to why. There seems to be some mention of a possible link to "so-called post-Covid syndrome", or something like that. Sweden may be famous for having infected their whole...

I don't think it was noted before given his habit of blocking all of us, but this is seriously impressively wrong for someone who has literally claimed expertise on this very topic. I guess "few" and "no" means tens of millions and adds up to trillions in economic losses, with who knows how...

Oh, I did not notice this. But it doesn't help clear up the confusion of using the same word for a different thing. Tiredness and pathological fatigue are indeed so very different, but here they are using the same root word. It's so often used precisely to cause confusion, the biopsychosocial...

There have been a few exchanges on the commentary with Paul Glaziou on twitter, and sadly he does not appear to be any serious about this at all. I thought he was a bit removed and just taking sides reflexively over the evidence-based medicine angle, but he is the same as the rest of them. Feels...