Search results

History of the profession in a nutshell.

And meanwhile we're stuck with them but it's them who whine about being stuck with us even though we don't even want them around and they know it. Such an easy fix for this. But egos. Just freaking narcissistic egos. Also lots of legal liability but who's counting?

Ah, well, at the very least there is no confusing the fact that those guidelines have been deprecated, the message makes up the whole page. That's good. Which says either of two things: no one checked, or no one cares. The person who wrote this could not have possibly been mistaken about the...

Ridiculous.

Much earlier than 12 months ago, but still.

The fact that their own models are always circular thinking was the most giant tell ever. Still is. The conclusion is everything, the rest is just noise.

Remarkably, and predictably, this is being covered with zero reporting of how the discrimination (not stigma, this is discrimination) is the same for us, for the exact same reasons. I've seen an article mentioning other discriminated illnesses, still avoided mentioning us. It was a UK...

Are there ever going to be actual breakdown studies? Every study so far is pure statistical analysis, there is no granularity to the data, they're all just pooled data compared to other pooled data. There is no tracking of individual data points, it's data without any depth. Even bigger studies...

They really are trying to moneyball this, trying to fit the right combination of factors that support their conclusions. These people actually dismiss well-defined (if one bothers to learn them) entities as too vague, and yet their entire thing is: And it's caused by "stress", which is...

IIRC they used the last answer submitted. Which is clearly making up data. This fact alone would normally be a fatal error in any serious professional setting. Inventing data is obviously not permitted in a serious process, in research it's blatant misconduct, even when it's a trivial amount...

Complete radio silence and a fully secretive process make it impossible to know. I don't think anyone outside of us is aware of this. Even though it keeps getting cited, this is pretty niche. Maybe this is taken into account, doubtful though. It would make sense to emphasize it. I assume that...

This is basically turning into a running gag, but leave it bad physicians to notice a common medical problem, smack in the middle of their "expertise" but they missed entirely nonetheless, and find a way to argue that it must be whimsical and about other stuff, therefore probably not medical. I...

It sure is true that they are widely available and have been used. They are essentially useless, but it sure is true that they have been used. All this stuff most patients can do easily. It's everything else they can't. Stop wasting professional resources on amateur stuff that nearly everyone...

Decades and millions wasted on a psychosocial model have not come up with anything as relevant as this small nugget from someone who is new at this. Regardless of anything, all of their work combined has never managed to grasp the reality of chronic illness anywhere near close to this errant...

Agreed. Frankly, Long Covid has essentially made this review irrelevant. Not just the update, the review itself. There is a brand new crop of identical(ly bad) studies and trials being done for LC, in addition to the move toward even more generic and vague fluff in the form of FND/MUS...

Whatever the real answer happens to be, if it's all about the T-cells it would make such an iconic moment of Wessely's "enough with the T-cells". Doubtful that any one thing is the whole answer, but this would be in the same vein as "bacteria can't possibly survive in the stomach" and peptic...

So far I've seen mostly good comments. And lots of familiar and friendly professionals seem involved, like Todd Davenport and a few others I noticed. Looks positive so far.

Some of this tweets trashing Cochrane or GET and a few private messages with other people have been shared on many of his tweets and to others praising it. He genuinely doesn't care because no one else seems to, there are no consequences. We've been showing how the claims of harassment have been...

It's resonating especially poorly with long haulers. One pattern I noticed in the first year, whenever discussion of the overlap with ME came up, was the many people who said they didn't have much fatigue so it didn't make sense to them. Kind of familiar. It still pops from time to time with...

Thank you Caroline. It's becoming increasingly clear that the entire EBM paradigm needs to end, it's nothing but politics behind the scenes and marketing in public. Taking the incident with the fraudulent papers that, when taken out, don't really change the outcome and how it doesn't bother...