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I was thinking more of a letter to the editor, as some journals have. Not sure I have the energy to debate with someone that their paper is bad, all I can do is a one-off summary of the issues. This seems like the responsibility of the journal. It's an option, though. I'll see how pissed off...

Found a good example for what I mean by using GPT to write comments or papers to submit to official proceedings, a psychiatrist with dyslexia and for whom English is second language. They write their draft, then ask GPT to make it better. I really think people ought to give it a try. There will...

Seriously, this better not be the whole budget. My ex-girlfriend was studio manager for a major video game development company and their Christmas party was more expensive than this.

New CDC Foundation Program Focuses on Creating Partnerships to Address Chronic Conditions Caused by Infections, Including Long COVID...

OK this may start to get interesting about one particular feature of peptic ulcers: they are caused by the H. Pylori bacteria, but nearly everyone carries those bacteria in our stomachs, they only seem to cause ulcers when they manage to breach the lining, the factors for this being unknown...

Ugh. I don't see a way to send a letter. This cannot stand, the word pacing in the context of Long Covid has a meaning and it's the opposite of this. It should not be acceptable to distort the meaning of common words like this, it's as invalid as describing a vegetarian diet that allows for as...

I'm sorry... "phase" of the protocol? Ah, so not pacing at all, this is GET-by-lying. All exertion is the same, this is the main problem dealing with PEM/PESE. The complete inability of medicine to understand that this is about exertion, and the endless obsession with making it all about...

Pragmatic trials aren't even supposed to be used to infer cause or etiology. They are not capable of it, especially not with the evidence they have, all a bunch of "may be" and "could be" lacking a single bit of objective evidence. This is reckless endangerment, blatant disregard for the role...

One disorder, many flavors: Functional fatigue. Functional GI issues. Functional headaches. Functional dysfunction. All the same to them, but given different labels to pretend otherwise. Truly the biggest scam in professional history. It's one disorder, the conversion disorder, but it's so...

Also, we wouldn't even be talking about this if it wasn't for the accusations of laziness and the myth of deconditioning, hardly anyone would feel the need to emphasize it. It's in response to those false accusations that it's said so often. But the accusations and myths are all there is about...

Hey this is pretty close to the questionnaire I had in mind. Just take regular activities of daily living, ranked by order of exertion, and grade them according to how sustainable they are. Some similar ideas to some questionnaire that was discussed a while ago, Pittsburgh something, but better...

A recent and very relevant phrase that is about politics so will not specify but really sums up the same thing: I've been thinking lately of the value of putting this out as a challenge to the ideologues: that LC is the definitive test of their model. Only problem with that is that I don't...

In Switzerland some people noted that a lot of people are out of work because of Long Covid/chronic illness and simply asserted it is a mental health crisis. So basically blind twice over: blind about what's happening, and blind about why it's happening. With experts like this, of course...

This is a good example of actual biological reductionism. On what basis has it been decided that this single test is a reliable objective measure of fatigability? Is fatigability even well-defined enough to be of use? When fatigue is clearly not? When PEM is involved, another concept that...

True. But it seems to mostly revolve around interoception and stuff like this, about signals sent because something is being sensed. At least that's how I understand it. There's just no need to add gravity to this, it's just silly. The generic idea of interoception and stuff like that is old...

Just as anxiety can almost always replaced be with "I don't like this", stress can be substituted to mean exertion in 90% of cases where it's used. Or maybe unavoidable exertion, if we're to make "stress" meaning something more. The inability to pay attention to details is what makes it...

I didn't quite catch that, but they basically made up their own ad hoc definition, one that is obviously weird and inappropriate. Even though there are better definitions, which they reject because they are not accepted by... them. Seems like something especially problematic in the course of a...

The use of the word empowerment in particular, but also in general the idea that self-management amounts to anything other than negligence leading to needless suffering and early death for millions. We do not "self-manage" this because it's the best way, a good way, or any way to deal with this...

It's definitely true of many disciplines. Healthcare is a clear outlier on this, though. I don't really see the role of clinical psychologists on this, though. They've basically become jacks-of-all-trades about everything in healthcare that isn't medical care. I have no idea how psychologists...

Typical to form, the SMC seems to be willfully participating in the blaming of lockdowns-that-were-very-limited-and-in-no-way-actual-lockdowns leading to reduced infections. It repeats the lie that those pathogens were not seen in the last 3 years, which is actually a big tell about medicine's...