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And the same old divide between belief and reason, between myth and science. At its core, it's about beliefs overruling the search for real, accurate knowledge about the universe and how it works. The old fallback to easy-but-wrong answers that seem superficially correct, but cannot ever make a...

Seems like a huge stretch to me to relate this to the placebo effect as observed in clinical studies, which is largely, if not entirely, a problem of accurate measurements, or lack thereof. Or the general idea of whatever it is people mean by placebo. The Stanford Prison Experiment, no longer...

To my knowledge, there has been no such confirmed incident. Unless someone wants to count someone throwing a cup after being unfairly ejected, which no reasonable person would. I heard some people saying they saw letters that were angry and still don't think it qualifies much, certainly not for...

In code form, this is how I usually see that reasoning: if(false): // This code somehow still runs The premise, the initial necessary condition from which everything derives is false, but they still follow the illogic tree to its conclusion, which is the real starting condition according to...

Ah, reading it a bit and noticed the authors. Definitely needed and sensible. IMO the most important: From trials and research. Although the research so far has validated decades of controversy our way, it hasn't made an impact, but more importantly hasn't actually added anything that wasn't...

Even worse is that most of them are redundant. They add nothing at all to hundreds have already produced. They're clones of one another and are clearly done with zero care for the massive duplication of identical wastes of effort. Even worse than that is that all those interventions have been...

So it would be more fair to call them The Association against some quackery but for some other forms. I think the person I was thinking of is in Norway, the head of medical science that saying bad things about us. Ah well, they are so interchangeable.

Simultaneously too tall and too short. Average height? Way too average, that's the danger zone. No one finds any problem with any of that BS. Absurd.

Looks like a huge mess to me. Just treat symptoms. How? Just do it. We've always been at war with East Asia. East Asia does not exist. East Asia is a crucial ally in our war with West Asia. The combined forces of East and West Asia have been crushed. Asia has never existed. They don't have...

Starting with a lie sure is a choice. A choice accepted by editors of academic journals. Then they badly need to raise their standards because this is pathetic. This damn obsession with this CBT stuff has reached completely ridiculous levels.

Judging from the precedent we recently set: I guess it's time to learn to live with mpox.

Also, unrelated, but trying to find how much this dud of a study cost by going on their website, it looks like they've been hacked, it redirects to an online gaming scam: Ah, well. Can't find how much it cost. But this was a big study. And their conclusion is: more bigger studies. The grift...

Ah, a very biopsychosocial study indeed: it's useless, but it feels like it should be useful to the health care system, so let's do it anyway, to reduce costs, which it doesn't, in fact adds costs since you're adding an additional layer to it. So, in a nutshell: useless, more expensive, let's do...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess they prefer LC patients because they have better chances of recovering on their own.

Other than this stuff being talked about by the NIH director being significant, it's hard to take it seriously until there is real action matching them. It makes a strong record for the inevitable disappointment, for when facts actually start to matter. It sounds sincere, but all I see is talk...

Last year, the regional university hospital (CHUM in Montreal) opened a clinic for what they call complex illnesses, specifically naming ME/CFS. Today I got a call from my GP saying that my referral was rejected, they only take Long Covid. I don't think it says much about how good such a clinic...

Odd how all it takes to go off from biopsychosocial standards is to introduce anything biological. Because the descriptions above are pretty standard biopsychosocial methodology for the most part.

Like, are they aware that the chief medical scientist of their country, whatever her title is, is a huge fan of this stuff? Is heavily promoting it? I guess not.

Some organization that calls itself (translated) "Association against quackery" is criticizing what is essentially the biopsychosocial model exactly as applied to us, seemingly unaware that this borrows entirely from, well, medicine. They don't seem to have noticed. The therapists doing this...

There was a comment, and others reflecting the same thing, in the Reddit thread that @SNT Gatchaman linked to, about how they hate working the GI ward because it's almost all, in their opinion, fake/functional zebra stuff. So this is a common issue, and there is no possible way to know about...