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Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(24)00038-3/fulltext Findings Globally, the 37 conditions affecting the...

Impressive that it's published on the same day as some media, including the Guardian, publish the latest bit about "scrapping" the term Long Covid, which obviously they can't do something about since it's used by the patient community, so it's not as if medicine could use it any less. It's...

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Sometimes you just have to despair at how incompetent these people are. And childish, this cartoon is completely unprofessional and dumber than a bag of rocks.

Just incredible. If you actually listen to long haulers, they overwhelmingly report that it's physical activity that made them deteriorate. It's genuinely hard to be this wrong. Most people will never be half as wrong about anything in their entire life. All these bad clinicians are showing is...

Well this is all very disturbing. For sure Nath betrayed us. He made a choice equivalent to putting a coal executive in charge of a climate policy initiative. The example of an extreme misogynist in a women's initiative also works. Walitt's beliefs are pure bigotry, putting him in this position...

Oooh, it has to be that study that only had a single certainty rating that isn't very low, and that one is still low... It is! Would you look at that, like a mirror of the ME studies, all of which are either highly biased, or biased, and vastly overhype pre-determined opinions that have no...

It's not a traditional view, it's The lack of coding in health records actually reflects the fact that it's not the traditional view, in fact this most commonly reported inflection point is widely disputed, hence the invention of the generic "chronic fatigue syndrome", detached from any...

Same old crap about functional somatic bla bla bla. This is like trying to find the source of a sound, testing for electrical buzzing, and concluding that the electrical circuit is fine means that it's ghosts. Has to be. It's the latest fashionable theory, after all. It's incredible how smart...

They absolutely don't. This is what's truly wild about this brain-dead ideology, there is nothing that ever suggests any of this, it's simply their opinion, which they don't reason into and is blatantly post hoc fallacy. Their reasoning about finding the perfect balance of words and activities...

Fantastic letter. I hope it gets published. Can a letter be published as coming from the forum itself? Without names?

We ignored AIDS. Let’s not repeat the mistake on long COVID https://www.nj.com/opinion/2024/03/we-ignored-aids-lets-not-repeat-the-mistake-on-long-covid-editorial.html Written by the editorial board of the Star-Ledger. In the earliest days of the AIDS crisis, America ignored the problem, even...

From Humpty to Dumpty. That's the range these people play with. There is as much significant variation than in homeopathic concoctions. It's actually one of the wildest things that they all seem to pretend like their dozens of identical definitions of the same thing are somehow different in any...

Fantastic article! Ironic that on the left side, one of the recommended articles is literally one of the opinion pieces going against the NICE guidelines. I'm sure it would have been too awkward to name it on their own pages, but the Guardian has played a significant role in pushing this...

I'd say that it isn't even necessary to name psychosomatic or psychological research directly. All that's needed is stringent requirements and it takes care of itself naturally. Biopsychosocial research cannot withstand rigorous methodology, the only way they can pretend to is to lie and cheat...

Goes without saying that such an organization would not sign the charter. One way to resolve this could be requiring the endorsement of X charter-signing organizations, rather than just one. Depends on how many there are in total. Not too onerous, but enough to make it sure that it isn't some...

You could easily get those results with a spooning pillow. Or maybe giving them a spa bath at home that they can use whenever they want. It's obvious that the field is unwilling to address is validity crisis. They love the fake results too much. They want them to be true so bad that they are...

I mean she wasn't lead author. She has basically been the go-to expert on pediatric "chronic fatigue" for decades, and was probably lead author on more papers than any other research has authorship. She wasn't on Clock either, instead it was some other pediatrician who never did any research on...

So, exactly as a reasonable person would expect of a seriously ill group. They make a calculation based on rewards that scales with difficulty. And being able to do less, they do a bit less. Even the controls behaved the same way, just not as impaired by their ability so applying a slightly...

Bit like that weird "forensic" paper we saw the other day. There is still this idea that they can catch people contradicting themselves and that it means something. And this is from the ME Association so it's not even antagonistic, but the idea that catching people in a contradiction is...