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Given his recent Cochrane review, likely trying to badmouth the community. Probably in the Norwegian press, or something like that. Do a bit like what Afflicted did to the participants. That was truly revolting stuff.

And others, apparently. I guess word of mouth got around. I remember Vogt tried this a few times on Reddit. It did not go well. It's truly amazing how these people can be so delusional about how they are perceived. They'll still go around thinking that the right patients like their stuff. You...

I think we got that. Did we get that? I'm pretty sure at least Polybio has that. But yeah we need more brains. Which sounds both creepy and interesting.

Wait are you describing then or now? Because...

There was an article about this in the early days saying he'd gone back when Long Covid started pushing funding to those clinics. Which I guess I kind of missed. Of course they follow the money. Their research is all finely crafted to produce more research. So I guess we should eventually see...

And it must be said that although in recent decades this has largely fallen out of fashion with smart people, it doesn't take going too many decades further back to find ideas like this extremely fashionable throughout the whole population, including in very smart people, even commonly applied...

OK good to know, I would have re-submitted otherwise.

This is not a fact. At all. It makes a causative claim. There is no evidence of causation, only correlation, which is consistent with being a consequence of. This is not serious, it's opinion. Although yeah we are currently in a phase where they begin with the assumption that there is no...

So, people who have more pain report more pain, and likely express more pain? What this is definitely worth a dozen Nobel prizes. The chocolate kind, but still.

Let's see if it can be followed through, maybe a bit of community pressure.

There is likely a natural variation on top of the poverty of most studies. There is no reason why Long Covid should be evenly distributed across the population. There are many factors having to do with local variants, how much they spread and many other factors that naturally lead to variations...

Right. That's very problematic. It meets some needs. Mostly minor needs. It doesn't look all bad, but it gives a very false impression of how useful this is, that this is a replacement for medical care, when it's alternative health care. And really, it's probably no more useful than a GP...

Uh, no, I don't think we can say that anymore. Which makes this: especially damning. Having just abandoned everything having to do with COVID is just incredible mass failure. It's completely unprecedent for an expert profession to just give up like this, about something they know is important...

After having their entire body or research invalidated several times on this ground alone, this is incredibly foolish and stubborn to the point of being fanatical. Looks to me like a shift away from anything about ME/CFS and towards even more generic illness definitions based around single...

Once again showing the disconnect. Someone at the NIH is quoted saying something like "this is what the patients have been demanding all along", which I guess simply means that there are trials, while the community has had a very unimpressed response that is basically, "yeah, we definitely have...

Speaking of this, I received no email confirmation that mine was under consideration. I think there should be one?

The increasing need to reduce costs, even at the expense of actual lives. The biopsychosocial model has made this front and center. There are so many diseases and conditions that medicine knew nothing about and now treats. People live longer and that adds significant burden. But healthcare...

However frustrating it is to those of us who are beyond those improvements, there is still quite a lot that GPs can do to help. Even if it's just understanding what it is and giving the right advice. It can make a world of difference, I know it would have for me. Not for everyone, and the fear...

Love this probably unwittingly dishonest list. They are very much identical, however much they could pretend that the "or" does not imply it. It doesn't imply it, it says it. The dishonesty is especially infuriating, where they say it plainly in most contexts, and reserve the lies where they...