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I'm sure we can fix that... with CBT!

Has there ever been a solution more desperately in search of a problem? I guess they kind of solved that problem by just inventing a fictional representation of the problem but still it's pathological at this point. CBT will make your car go faster. CBT will make the sun shine brighter. CBT...

So the MUS project will also make it more likely that these cases are fobbed off to therapy and more people will die for being denied basic medical care. The stubborn belief that this is all harmless is incredibly misguided, especially as the problems will largely go unnoticed because no proper...

"Are you... are you one of... them?" :nailbiting: Not paranoid, no sir.

This definitely reads like the kind of stuff you could find in the sink of a MBA end-of-semester party. Just throw (up) random buzzwords and you too can make a killing!

A real journalist would not just quote (mostly) anonymous people on a forum. Which doesn't mean it won't happen, but it would be a pretty bad self-goal.

Likely either Kelland at Reuters or someone else at Guardian, which has fallen for the researchers' claims before.

Over 90% of my consults lead nowhere and likely concluded I had no actual medical problems. It is the mother of all false positives to take that and extrapolate it to mean that most consults have no genuine medical concern. Completely irresponsible and unscientific.

This is a dubious claim that is impossible to take at face value considering how many patients with serious medical problems are fobbed off. The most likely explanation is the underlying medical reason has simply not been identified. It's possible either way but this claim has no basis in...

Considering the issues raised all fall within the bounds of BMJ's own rules and guidelines, this is most definitely not something that anyone should understand, or even find reasonable. There are no known extenuating circumstances, in fact it is utterly bizarre to raise this. Coming from a...

Did someone check the local planning department at Alpha Centauri?

Damn. Well-done MEAction. Relatively easy to do technically but exactly the kind of thing that people who aren't familiar with how disabling ME is never think about.

Will this feedback include a walk down memory lane? When the 2002 guidelines were adopted, strong warnings were given by patient organisations about the predictable outcome it would lead to. Some of it warned of misrepresentation of the disease, systemic discrimination, denial of medical care...

That's the problem with flawed assumptions, it makes good judgment impossible, even in well-meaning people. Anyone looking at the material before being satisfied that it is worth touting would not know that it is bad and never think it may be problematic. The same thing could have happened with...

There are no valid reasons to keep medical guidelines a secret. It would show awareness that the material is problematic, which will create all sorts of legal implications in the future. Keep the pressure on, this is good. Surely the clinics have such material as well? Probably in the same file...

Now this has to be trolling. Is being a jerk a requirement to work in psychosomatic medicine? Who funds this fake charity?

"We have rechecked our calculations and it turns out that the end of the world will actually happen next week, as predicted. Every other detail relevant to last week's misprediction remains accurate and should not be a matter of concern, as we have demonstrated at last month's misprediction...

For decades the tobacco industry was untouchable. Until it wasn't, and they are rich as F. Even the biggest saboteurs can be beaten when you have truth on your side. It just may last a lifetime but hopefully we're at the tail end of this.

Just a thought but I think that not enough is made of the fact that PACE was a complete waste of resources. Even Wessely tries to dither about how important it is (even though he is proud to celebrate it in a proper forum, receive awards over his contributions that preceded PACE and onto it and...

Even worse: illusion of money. Long-term, this approach is much more expensive than going about it the boring way of working on a problem until you actually solve it. It only works as a fake number on annual budgets. In real terms, this is a massive, massive waste of everything.