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Double-pinky swear? It's weird that everyone in the field is aware of the crisis of replicability but just continues on their merry way as if it didn't matter. Surely, my research is fine and dandy.

Not particularly, no.

Programmers with poor manners can be kept out of meetings and promotions and still be capable of doing their job, but exceptions have to be made to accommodate them and they require extra management. Bad medical professionals don't have that option, other than doing lab work, I guess. Medicine...

I dare say, this has a whistleblower feel to it. I hope it encourages more people to speak up about things they saw from within that seemed odd and unethical but did not dare question the eminence of those in charge, especially given the obvious political nature of the whole psychosocial...

Wikipedia doesn't like expert involvement so it would probably not have much effect. It works on consensus, even if the consensus is wrong. Usually works, with us it's pretty bad.

Psychosomatic infection. Now that's a new one. Quite a symptom, I guess.

Oh, but that's far too logical and obvious. How could we maintain full employment of psychosomatic experts if we don't continue with the angels-dancing-on-a-hairpin employment-for-mediocre-physicians program? It's just so damn easy. You can literally put a mat written STOP on the floor and...

Any of the researchers volunteer to be subjected to pain and try to wish it off? This basically feels like some snob billionaire scoffing at the poor and why they can't just buy more money? Live it down for a minute and you'll stop with this BS nonsense.

Holy shit! She gets it so intensely well. Still reading but this is fantastic. Read it when you can. Just plug it straight into my veins. And make it a double. Common sense: And basic duty of care: One familiar name, another less so: And the reason she gets it:

Seeing far too many similar stories lately. Of course you don't hear about all the ones who make it out fine but still, basic accessibility is still clearly a huge unsolved problem.

Yikes. Even the psychosocial researchers pretend that it isn't psychosomatic. Then argue the opposite but whatever. Even Cochrane dithers, saying that being in the common mental disorders shouldn't mean that (which it does, but whatever). Is depression even considered psychosomatic anymore?

I wonder how a company that exists "to carry on business associated with the establishment and promotion of a system of health based on a BPS model" would rate as far as institutional affiliation? Or being a chief medical officer for an insurer advising on mental health exemptions for this...

That one is a doozy. How is it OK to just make stuff up like that? When such obviously false claims are brushed off, how can any part of the judgment be considered credible? Using the same word but making up a whole new definition is not something serious people do.

I think FINE did? It was more of a hodge-podge that didn't explicitly mention CBT or GET but basically seems to amount to some combination of the two. Anyway, part of GET is convincing the patient to push through and ignore their symptoms so conversion therapy / CBT is pretty much implicitly...

This is a common rhetorical device used by shameless politicians: describing the facts in the driest possible language even though it means the same thing. (Just tune in to any of Trump's press secretaries pressers, they use it all the time) So they didn't cheat by moving the goalposts in order...

Also may be part of these subjective symptoms: Bigfoot, solar flares, swing dancing, butterflies, precession of the equinox, intestinal gas, fox puppies. If we're going with "may be", might as well cover everything that is possible. Except, of course, for an actual pathophysiology. That it may...

Oh the PDF has been preserved elsewhere, no problem here. It's just that this link that I and others have used is now broken and it's also better to have it hosted on Columbia university's website than on scribd or other document hosting.

Here to sell my plague-repelling rocks. I did a trial with people who did not have the plague after treatment. The treatment consists of teaching otter-rock-juggling. 100% of participants were free of plague at 1 year follow-up. By subjective questionnaire, I can report that they feel more...

PACE team made plans for the media blitz in coordination with the (totally neutral and objective) SMC and the Lancet during the trial, showing the results were pre-determined and would have had no impact on their conclusions. So I guess it's normalized now. This is carry-the-football...

Nice haul for someone who had claimed to have left the field because of all the "harassment". Seems instead she found a more easily abusable population, one that will comply and not complain, especially with threats of FII on parents. Science without a moral compass is bad for society. Always...