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It's also actually famous that this is how medicine viewed cancer when serious research started and it's as a result of a huge amount of research that they now know better. It's pretty clear by now that when it comes to predictions, unfortunately medical professionals don't seem to do any...

Weird that he talks about how horrible it is to have a disease for which no treatments exist, when this has always been the case, affecting millions. And it has been handled with mockery, negligence and the same gaslighting he seems to think is bad here, but I guess it's only bad for some? I...

Well, it's not hard to see the problem here. You can't fix conceptual flaws after the fact, and they are not "up for debate". In fact anything you do following a conceptual flaw is useless. In literally every profession this principle is applied, it's not even an option. It's pretty much the...

Uh, literally half recover, at least. Come on this is just weak. A freaking TV show about busting myths was more rigorous than this. And it was for entertainment. Why are entertainers more serious about a freaking TV show than actual medical doctors about their actual job? Do they literally...

Which only proves these people aren't serious. This was an intelligence assessment, not a scientific one, about a far-out hypothesis. And even disproving one hypothesis does not make another one true, this is blatant logical fallacy. It shows the bankruptcy of the reasoning: "there is no...

Chewing those thoughts a bit, I can't escape the fact that the people who bring those comments literally don't understand why this commission is happening at all. Legislatures, especially in several countries, do not get involved in medical matters when medicine handles them well. The comments...

At the very least, they are displaying exactly why things are FUBAR. These people are the reason why there is no help. It could not be any more clear, this is an attitude problem more than anything. They are essentially praising the very thing that harms millions, in a process that is about...

Love this account and takedowns of this clown study: This engineer has several threads on the topic of evidence-based medicine and how it's not a serious evidentiary process, in fact is probably the least reliable process used by any expert profession ever, with the exception of pre-science...

Oh wow we should really look at who is responsible for doing this and put a stop to it. Maybe even discipline those people. You know, because they do harm. Make it a lesson that sticks about exactly the wrong way to do this. She seems to still think it's just increased heart rate and nothing...

Completely whitewashes the fact that patients have been mistreated, discriminated and neglected to massive harm and needless suffering by the coercive use of a model based on denial of reality. But the information given is mostly accurate. The overall description of the illness is quite good...

This is a paper about the fact that they're doing a trial that will be published in a paper? The idea of taking into account ME and PEM is contradicted by pretty much all the choices that went into this. It's beyond any possible doubt that this BPS stuff is useless. It was invented explicitly...

It's pretty demoralizing that the general patterns seem to be impossible to grasp. It really hasn't sunk in that brain fog has been known and described for a long time in many conditions. Even formally. But always separate, no dots connected. It's common during and after chemotherapy. There's...

Can't really exclude that the combination of exertion and pain/discomfort from the experience, even simply having someone in the room, is the main factor. In severe cases, simply turning in bed can cause PEM. The tolerance is that small. The process of feeding someone this way is definitely in...

It's really incredible how Horton gets no blame at all. Wakefield did not self-publish. Horton published it in his journal. And the editorial board had to approve it. He defended it. Said the same rubbish he parrots about PACE, lambasted his critics even though they were right and he was wrong...

Ugh. Here they go again with "cause" of fatigue in the news article. It correlates, we don't know if it's causative at all. In fact there is no need to bring brain atrophy into this, the crippling exhaustion during illness, say a flu, obviously does not cause rapid brain atrophy. Medicine...

That's some galaxy brain logic here. "Let's develop skills and experience on this issue" "No, we can't, we don't have skills or experience on this issue" Shmart stuff. Truly the work of geniuses at being experts and stuff. Just say you don't want to and can't be bothered to care. We all know...

I don't think anyone is saying that. But weight loss is simply down to inability to eat enough food, no reason to complicate that. The cause for that is the whole question, but being unable to eat is a problem in itself, whether the cause is known or not. It's likely that the explanation for...

Could not find a more representative flag-bearer of evidence-based medicine and Cochrane. This is what it's really like without the mask, it's a mindless political process for the most part. What little good it may produce is vastly outweighed by all the harm. And even what little good it may...

I can't say I've seen that. I've seen people recognizing the fact that he was saying things that are true, and that's pretty much how low the bar is: it's worth praising someone simply stating basic facts. Because this is helpful to the patients. And also because it's true, which is very...

IIRC, this lab was part-funded by the US government so they could have better surveillance, it followed the swine flu (or another strain but it was def a flu) outbreak I think. Obama created a unit high up in the government dedicated to possible pandemics. There was also an Ebola scare around...