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Is this seriously the best the experts can do after all this time? Seriously? Everyone whined at first about how self-reports are invalid, and yet this is all they do anyway, obviously as symptoms can only be self-reported by definition, and they do it far worse than patient-led studies because...

There is so much silliness to this I missed the online part. I searched the paper for what they mean by that and I still don't have a clue. And in fact completely missed the fact that this is not about bathing at all, it's videos of people walking in the forest. So forest bathing as in sun...

Honestly, this always needs a reminder, because it's hard to believe that it happened, and shows that no one actually cares about bias in EBM, as long as the bias goes their way. If this happened with an unpopular alternative medicine trial, it would be laughed at, the researchers ridiculed...

A lot of those are BS psychosocial, though. Probably most, from the papers discussed on here. In fact, most of the papers published on the topic are still garbage, biomedical or otherwise. Medical science has an extreme version of the asymmetry of bullshit, it's so trivial to churn out nonsense...

Aside from the unmistakable pattern that mental health is now basically wellness, relaxing for a bit, as long as you can afford it, it has also completely outclassed the snake oil era in clownishness. I was also told once by my GP to go to a spa. I am still angry at it years later. It's such a...

Speaks for itself. There is no issue any profession has been dealing with in the last half-century where there was such a wide chasm between reality and what experts are saying and doing, this here basically defeats the entire purpose of having experts at all, if they're going to just screw it...

At this point it has to be said: medical and public health authorities have made lying about Long Covid not just normal but essential. Telling the truth about medical issues should not be a radical act, and yet here we are, in a state where lying is the only acceptable thing they will do about...

I will always remain baffled at how psychiatry, a branch of medicine, does not think it deals with medical issues. Or something like that. It's very unclear and frankly keeping this mysterious appears somewhat similar to how the Catholic church kept mass in Latin for so long, so that people...

Dianna Cowern is a science youtuber known as The physics girl. She knows most of the other pop science youtubers, they will likely watch it if she makes this video. If anyone remember, Hank Green, of scishow, completely flubbed LC at first in a tweet thread. I think there was a later video that...

That is very unfair to slugs, which despite their slowness do not simply slime around in circles. Or they'd die, so, you know, they clearly don't do that.

Oooh, that's a strikeout. Literally did not even pretend to take those seriously the whole time. Not even 1% of the way on any of those so-called principles. What's the point of pretending to have principles when they're clearly just a bunch of marketing slogans?

Could be horses. Could be ponies. Could be donkeys. But it could also be the ghosts of long-dead aliens inhabiting the body. As we all know, those are of equal merit when the horse has bolted from the barn long ago and no one really bothered looking for it, leading the whole farm to confidently...

The fact that this is published in The Lancet, with very likely no or only muted reference to ME/CFS, is just peak irony. Literally the Spiderman pointing at himself meme. With obviously zero capacity to acknowledge that this discrimination, not stigma this is discrimination, originates and...

There is obviously no need to publish a paper out of a single workshop for 12 people where people are told some stuff and then it's concluded that when people are told stuff they can repeat some of it back. The all-quantity-no-quality model of publishing papers for the sake of having published...

It's been over 2.5 years and no progress was made at all, medicine still hasn't even caught up to the 90's on this issue. The blatant refusal to even try is evident. Very bad idea to make such promises when the real work hasn't even started yet at the scale it's needed. No more hopium, damnit.

I don't think I've ever seen anything BPS that didn't explicitly or implicitly reattribute the consequences as the cause. Reattribution of symptoms and impacts is basically the basis of how BPS is applied to chronic illness. There is almost nothing without it because it is strictly associative...

When your "predictor" happens after the fact, is obviously a consequence, and no one finds anything wrong with it, you have so many problems to deal with that even having a predictor that happens after the fact is the least of your problems. Like having overlapping sick-enough-to-enter and...

Not to diss on sociology, but even by the standards of sociological research, this is garbage-tier. Really have to come up with terms that even the very best evidence in EBM is significantly below the bare minimum used in other professions, and this here is as much below the best EBM out there...

Even the premise of this is flawed. Even if 100% recovered, it's clear that many are ill beyond a year. Doing nothing to help people who are ill, literally denying their illness and all that derives from that, is bad in itself. How is that not completely obvious? Especially on a rolling basis...

(Unsure if she knows this applies to ME, but a rare expression of calling the emperor's clothes by someone in the emperor's guard)