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This system doesn't work without complicit doctors. Unless those doctors are disciplined, it's basically condoning the practice. It's easy to blame greed, and it should, but none of this works without the complicity of people who think nothing of spending 2 seconds to click and deny. They even...

It's truly absurd that this is cutting edge medicine at a time when we are on the way to build AI, fusion energy and have built incredible tools like the LHC and James Webb telescope. And this really is cutting edge medicine, it's no longer fringe stuff, it's as mainstream as it gets. In real...

Reasonable. One of the only good features of the US health care system is tort. Likely this makes it impossible to make a case since there can be a medical "expert" to dismiss the case on grounds of it being a conversion disorder case study. Maybe not the only reason, but this is almost...

Nothing new. Psychiatry has long been used as dump. NIMBY (not in my back yard) is always very strong when no one is responsible for something. It's someone's else responsibility. Surely. Probably. One thing they know for sure, it isn't there, and everyone agrees.

The mistake here is thinking that the BPS model is separate from mainstream medicine. It isn't. It is the model of mainstream medicine. It has two modes: scientific and biopsychosocial. One mode works and is applied a lot where people care about outcomes. The other is the default alternative...

I doubt this can be simply undone and she seems to block so many people that it would be hard to find out who was blocked how and for why. Those tools don't leave a trace. So it seems like the right way to do it. Not that I see any reason to, I don't see TG doing us any better than Garner. But...

The current new thing being trialled by the community is nicotine. I don't think it will last long but this is the kind of thing that happens when professionals are negligent. I'm pretty sure we're not hearing the worst of it. This is all going the way of the AIDS crisis with having to source...

It's a cheap rebranding of the conversion disorder, so it already had 150+ years of expired shelf life. Without the coming AI revolution it would probably last several decades, but the end is nigh. I think we'll be seeing a huge peak that will fall completely flat once a breakthrough occurs...

A dude pushing the mythical psychological conversion disorder is being quoted in news media saying the exact opposite of what he's doing. Hard to fault people for falling for it, we've been sold out completely to the quack industry. It looks like the bold new frontier, the people selling and...

Much easier way: right-click on a link to the tweet and open it in incognito/private new window. For tweets that are hidden because of block, you can do the same on any tweet under it and see the original one. To get a clickable link, you can always use the timestamp on the tweet.

Only possible explanation. There is literally no other possible explanation for this change. It's the magical healing presence of those strong professional hands. All of this actually shows how the "white lab coat" effect was manufactured by simply saying so and, somehow, believing in it. This...

Hard to say. There is no review and only reviews seem to list a working group. It has a concept page (https://data.cochrane.org/concepts/PNAR4gNOmrsWxn), unlike ME/CFS which doesn't have one. But there is no mention of a responsible group. Somehow they only list 7 studies. Not sure how that's...

I don't mean confronting her about her behavior. I don't care much for that, people are weird and there was intense peer pressure. I mean the whole scandal. It has to happen eventually and people who took a stand on one side can't gloss it over. Millions of lives were and continue to be ruined...

Ironic, that Greenhalgh makes the same argument she dismisses with us, then Topol trashing the BPS model as nonsense, that was great. Not sure if he knows Greenhalgh is a strong promoter of it. Then discussion goes directly to, well, what Greenhalgh and her buddies did to those of us with...

But they are taken very seriously. Not the patients, which is the pretense here, but the conversion disorder is taken more seriously than at any time in history. We are in the golden age of this ideology, it's never been more influential or used in real life. And the medical profession will...

They actually did that. I mentioned the Handmaid's tale without seeing this, simply from how the situations are identical. It's hard to accept that they don't understand that there is some overlap, but, like in the Handmaid's tale, they truly believe it is for the greater good and that they...

This review is about as good as the current state of the field. Meaning there are only open questions, pieces of puzzles, and no answers. Not even a guiding path yet. This is what it looks like when there are only questions and no answers. It's a good overview of the map of the field. This is...

Ah, then all I can see is to see if accessibility features can help with typing. The only smartphones with keyboards are bulky, and frankly it's mostly just Blackberrys. It makes sense, it's just that all the alternatives have their flaws.

Astroturfing also applies. It's a term that contrasts grassroots efforts, like the ME community, to attain justice. Astroturf is the fake grass they use in some sports. It is being used massively here to promote the conversion disorder. RecoveryNorway is a good example of astroturfing, they...

All dependent on how each study defined LC, usually poorly. This approach has yielded nothing and most professionals don't believe in prevalence numbers because they're all over the place, and the rest is generic, or as they like to say when convenient: non-specific. I can't believe how much...