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Unless someone is going seriously all out on this, this article strongly suggests this is a US newspaper. Seems doubtful anyone from the UK would send people to NY and SF. Either possibility is interesting, though. Despite the tone, any serious journalists would have taken the psychosocial...

Just pasting the links in the text editor works as well, it automatically adds the wrapping tags.

Continuing on that thought, I don't remember a single piece of serious internal criticism in this area of research. It's all flawless, all a thing of beauty. No one says anything bad about their colleagues' work, it's all useful and beneficial and groundbreaking. Even glaring flaws are OK and...

Do people giving each other awards really qualifies as "award-winning"? I give you an award. You give me an award. You get award. You get an award. Everybody gets an award. We're all award-winning! There are many commercial organisations that do similar stuff. Basically fake "business bureaus"...

Damn. Yes. I lost track of my Orwellian acronyms.

If we're on the topic, I noticed another interesting "story" from... Bentall? He was on the NICE trial and played some hokie with Blanchflower during his meltdown. He mentioned a car bomb threat. First I've heard of it. It probably came in the same envelope as Crawley's fake ransom note. It...

Probably a waste of time as long as Wessely and Gerada have political influence. It would never be treated appropriately. Inevitably it will look pretty bad with hindsight, but we're not there yet.

Hey, no worries, the editor of Cochrane said this is common and absolutely fine as long as most people agree with the underlying assumptions. But it does make me curious about who reviewed PACE and the other ME papers. It probably helps when the editor agrees with you and doesn't even need to...

So how does it make sense to pursue this idiotic model where bedbound patients are asked to gradually work their way up from brushing their teeth over several months when the normal expected course of an otherwise healthy deconditioned person is "95% back to normal after a few days". There's...

I'm eager to be proven wrong, but my confidence has only grown over time that I'd estimate that likely 90%+ of all mental illness has a biological explanation, most likely the immune system or foreign particles/chemicals interfering with biological processes, and that most of them are treatable...

Where are the studies showing normal deconditioning from a sedentary lifestyle leads to this much measurable disability? To properly test this level of deconditioning participants in studies are made to remain bedbound under constant surveillance for months at a time (lots of it comes from NASA...

I'm pretty sure Sharpe wrote directly and on multiple occasions that it is the same in his opinion. This is what they think, it's conversion disorder with a few extra steps and I don't understand why this is excluded from the conversation whenever their work is discussed. It may be kept out of...

A reasonable person would have thought bringing forward the utter quackery of the lightning process would have been the last straw and embarrassed colleagues would be angry at this dumbing down of their entire profession but there seems to be no limit to how far they can take the magic wand...

Considering that the services have been dispensed for a full decade and that there is supposed to be data available of far greater quality and accuracy (how else could the guidelines be rubber-stamped in 2017 otherwise?), I find it suspicious that a survey is used at all. It keeps the debate...

I am pretty familiar with Internet trolling culture, it's a bit of a hobby of mine to study how it influences politics (extremely relevant to the politics of the past 3 years) and public discourse in general. It's fascinating for so many reasons. It's a culture that seeks to aggravate people, to...

It's possible that it exists. But there is an overabundance of medical professionals who say they have experienced their share of abuse, it seems to be the norm. I don't know why but some people are like that and since medicine deals with the whole human population, they will naturally...

I have not noticed any correlation between taking any of several types and my overall health. I was in remission with and without. I relapsed with and without. I slept badly with and without. I slept well with and without. My mood was unchanged. It doesn't really change anything significant...

That's the most depressing thing of all. "Fatigue was reduced". No, no it wasn't, you can't know or verify that. This whole body of research literally makes a point of pretending to help people whose health problems (I'm sorry... health "complaints") cannot be tested for. It shouldn't even be...

Using the flat surface of Occam's razor, I see. It smushes more than it cuts but I guess that works out alright too. "This criticism is invalid because I don't like it" is true galactic-size intellect. Most people would be hesitant about betting their entire career on a gut feeling but nope...