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I think in due time this may be understood as a variant of the Milgram experiment, where people in a context where they want to comply with authority may play along with instructions that end up greatly harming them, even voicing undeserved praise about being helped while being actively harmed...

Which is why they never address the common relapsing-remitting course. What, then, causes the relapse for some patients? They just got bamboozled by their own confused senses again? Did they forget they were not deconditioned anymore? Got a sudden "welp, guess I'm sick again" belief? During my...

It's all about protecting careers now, and shielding institutions from accountability. It's a disgraceful sham.

The absence of basic awareness, let alone self-reflection, of the numerous failures of this field is absurd. The same researchers who love to gloat at failure in real competing research "LOL rituximab failed, patients were sooo stupid to hope it would work" never even acknowledge that dozens of...

This isn't free speech. He's giving clinical advice in a professional forum that is objectively wrong, similar to AIDS denial or antivax. He's not giving a speech or doing a comedy skit. He's an authoritative figure presenting baseless claims as if they had evidence and are known to be directly...

That's how I see it. They were using an appeal to authority to bolster the bias effect on participants. It's a generic comment in itself, it simply does not belong in a clinical trial and shows their complete lack of respect for ethics. They basically did so much to bias participants it could...

I don't know how much weight this would bring but: how much research out there has this much potential to have this huge of an impact for so little money? Medical research is absurdly expensive, rarely pays off, most of it is poor quality, leads to nothing, has no impact on the world, not for...

To quote professor Farnsworth: it wouldn't be fair to change the outcome by measuring it.

I'll believe it when they put their hands in a flame and enjoy it by sheer willpower of dominating their pain. There is way too much magical thinking in modern medicine. For all the flak they give about alternative medicine and mock patients for trying weird stuff, many medical professionals...

Down is up. Gotta keep up!

I don't remember where I got it from but here is one issue: The part I found most damning is the 10 Downing street quote. How in the hell does it make sense for the office of the PM to laud the success of a treatment during a trial for that treatment? There is such a huge suspension of...

That's how I understand it, although I may be interpreting it. There's a threshold at which any sense will fire up saying "too much, signal pain", and it is probably lower with us, or some of us. Which is all pretty similar to how it is with the flu or any other acute illness. It's probably this...

His bio literally says history and philosophy of medicine. He literally does not recognize science when he looks at it. How can anyone be so bad at this?

I think it may be dawning on some people how big of an embarassment it will be in the (hopefully near) future to continue arguing for fairy tales. As long as they did not see the possibility of ever being proven wrong, there was little need to make a sincere effort. But the mounting evidence is...

That's basically the system that the Catholic church built to shield pedophile priests. Never a good thing when such a comparison can be made so directly. There is a serious problem of quality control and accountability in medicine. I think that's why there is so much hostility to patient...

Quite amazing that Wessely can make this all about himself, as if he could not even imagine being wrong and that this opposition had to be irrational since it contradicts what he believes about himself, about being "too good" for psychiatry, which is something someone totally said to him for...

So... if you take a group of patients, create a sub-group with additional depression, you observe that they have more depression. Wow. Genius work. Get the Nobel all shiny for this groundbreaking research. And WTF does metabolizing emotions mean? Metabolism is a specific concept in medicine...

I think that this feature of psychiatry, of dealing with the most severe cases of abnormal behavior, is what makes them unable to deal with us. There are only so many ways normal behavior presents itself, but an almost endless combination of disturbed behavior. Then when they see patients...

That's an issue I haven't seen much discussed yet even though it's a critical failure in all the psychosocial research. Every trial that uses a single measurement in time is misleading because of the wildly fluctuating nature of this disease. It would be as accurate as a simple measurement of...

I literally had this train of thought yesterday with the PS BS :laugh:. High-five.