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Aside from the absurdity of a newspaper having to conduct their own epidemiological research because the institutions tasked with this are negligent, by less common they mean slightly less common, and that's based on whatever flawed definition they used, which often focuses on "primary symptoms"...

I have a screenshot that I posted a few times before, but don't have it with me now. Also posted on twitter but now Elmo has removed the option to find them, or something.

They keep doing useless research like this and don't understand why they aren't making any progress, even though it's just the same things in infinite loops. Extremely biased in the choice of questions asked, whereas the free form answers are all about symptoms. They decided it was psychosocial...

Considering how wildly illness can fluctuate, I don't know how this would even work out. It seems like the most difficult thing in the world to even get this recorded at all, for the records to actually reflect changing reality is really asking too much. It makes sense, but the human factor...

Definitely not enough to cut, or even reduce, arterial blood flow. Moreau used about the lowest pressure possible. It inflates and deflates in a rhythm, but at its strongest it's no more than a slightly tight shirt.

Having, yet again, not found biomarkers, I was lead to believe this means they accept that it's not a real thing. Surely there will be consistency in applying standards. Oh, Shirley, you so funny.

Fortunately, all people have to do is think happy thoughts, not let fear run their lives, and exercise and everything will be fine. Very fortunate that we have this marvelous biopsychosocial model to guide us through these trying times. And it's just as fun as recess at kindergarten! What's not...

So, nothing at all to do with anxiety, then. Other than it being a label used for anything and everything, including the outcome of drinking too much coffee or intense exercise. Because the heart doesn't just decide to beat faster, everything else being equal. It beats faster on command using...

Twitter thread documenting some information packets given to medical authorities showing they were well aware of Long Covid by November 2021. And said nothing. And did nothing. It's not an impressive display of knowledge but it's at least 10x more than enough to not ignore this. They ignored...

The bastards. They just don't want to get better. This is far worse than alternative medicine when it happens in healthcare because it has power over people. It has more power than the law, even basic human rights. You have the "right to competent medical care", unless someone looks at you and...

I found a good example of what I'm describing about being able to use AI to intelligently search through many or large documents using natural language. Seems to be an early demo so keep that in mind. It works by allowing to upload a document, then you can use natural language to query it as if...

Listening to the patients yields the same, because this is almost all symptom-based and symptoms can only be self-reported by definition. Without the filter of what limited data ever get recorded. In fact the very first patient-led study found pretty much that. In fact this study is inferior to...

The real problem isn't being unable to actually assess it, it's not actually caring that they can't. Whereas when it comes to us they dismiss everything because there is no test, depression and anxiety are probably the most overdiagnosed things in all of medicine. Without a test. Without even a...

Damn this is impressive. And really look at this like the earliest smart phones and how much better they are today, except accelerate the progress 10x, and make it logarithmic.

I don't know if it will happen soon, but it will be possible within 1-2 years. AI systems like this have to be trained, so someone would have to spend resources on it. This is mostly money and labor. But being to copy (well, do a lot better and faster anyway) the process of systematic reviews...

Seems to be the whole point. And I do mean all of it, there is no secondary point to this, it's only this one. They are confusing the process with the outcome. The process of treating sick people is so they don't come back. Because why would they when the problem has been resolved? And we know...

Following the publication of the Reuters special report about targeted harassment of ME researchers, Sharpe and Wessely had a twitter exchange in which they admitted that there is no harassment or trolling, rather that there are too many complaints and requests taking too much of their time away...

So a process that, 3 years into, is still months away from publishing a basic outline of the work... could be expected to last, what 10-20 years? 50? 100? I am being serious here but at current pace AIs capable of doing true high-quality systematic reviews will beat this disaster by months, if...

Just putting up a sign at the door that says "Don't come back" would be a lot cheaper if that's the only goal. Probably just as effective, it's essentially the same message in a different form anyway. Or just close the clinic. Zero direct healthcare costs when you do that. If that's the only...

I don't even want to know what goes in the minds of the 4% of doctors who are very confident they can treat something that has no treatment. Or how much it says about medicine's problem with being confidently incorrect.