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Wow. I get the feeling that if we were to look in their desks, for at least a few of those people we will find a skull, calipers and books by Malthus and Charles Murray. The ugly personal politics are oozing, believers in the just-world fallacy. This has nothing to do with science, just people...

There are so many ethical and methodological violations that it's hard to keep track of. Is it the one that was super shady or the other one that was extra unethical? But sure, let that person hold statutory authority over vulnerable children in a very controlled setting that has long been...

Getting more coverage. Still frames it as a completely new thing, though. It's not as if there's a long-documented history of viral outbreaks leading to this clinical presentation or anything... Because even if 99.9% of those patients end up fully recovering, the very idea of prolonged illness...

Considering that the government adopted guidelines based on claims by some that knew so much about the role of individual psychological and psychosocial (why even separate those two?!) factors that all other efforts could be stopped and their model, based on affirmation of this knowledge they...

Is this the one where an MD made the weird comment that people used to think that mono could lead to ME but don't anymore? It would be swell to correct and especially try to understand where that disinformation came from. It's really weird how sometimes random opinions about ME seem to be voiced...

The end. Poor questionnaires that ask leading questions make for bad research. The questionnaires are vague, non-specific and their very choice represent incorrigible bias, amplified by outcome-seeking analysis. Enough of this weak pseudoscience.

Unfortunately important to get ahead of this as there could be attempts to marginalize us further by associating us with this. The people involved in this make it clear it's just conspiracy theory galore. It's pushed a lot in some... unsavory... political circles with lots of overlap with...

Give us the opportunity to influence policy without our views being hijacked and distorted by academics...

Don't know if outside of Norway is OK but I can't see why not. If anyone else signs it, the form doesn't seem to work on the translated page but works fine if you just go to the original URL: https://www.underskrift.no/signer.asp?Kampanje=7935. I would have wanted to leave a comment if...

Ah, a replication study! This is the gist of Eysenk's "cancer survival is related to attitude", which Simon Wessely dubbed (loosely paraphrased) "possibly the most significant finding in cancer research in decades". That's the beauty here, that one can make jokes about absurdly bad...

Pre-print, but interesting. https://osf.io/usztn/

I thought about this more and I understand why he said it was unhelpful: he thinks PVFS is psychological. Which is incredibly revealing because apparently he's Cochrane editor on infectious diseases, actually thinks PVFS is psychological and found it very unhelpful to be dismissed as having...

Ironically, it's basically right there in the text: "it could improve". Don't ask about what "improve" means, though, by her own admission she doesn't know and won't commit to a specific thing because then that could be tested and measured, thus removing the suspension of disbelief. That's...

Wow. Fascinating. A case study in self-gaslighting and being faced with irreconcilable cognitive dissonance. That's what PVFS is, the illness simply remains, fluctuating, weird, exhausting. Remarkable how his descriptions could be found nearly verbatim talking about ME. The doubt. The insults...

15 Children Are Hospitalized With Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to Covid-19 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/nyregion/children-Kawasaki-syndrome-coronavirus.html Very worrying given how common the calls are for to essentially expose children to the virus since they display few symptoms...

This is obviously going to lead to much suffering and everything but I'm kinda looking forward to the cognitive dissonance that the unfortunate physicians who will remain ill will have to face hearing this nonsense while experiencing the complete disconnect with reality. Especially those who...

I was trying to figure out the point of this meandering thought salad and, yeah, it's a sales pitch: In a way this is good for the wellness industry since those children will be in need of more wellness after having been subjected to wellness, kinda like selling both the poison and the cure...

If only that were true. It really should. The reality instead is mostly "out of sight, out of mind (and nevermind the complaints)".

I could write the conclusion right here and now. They will cherry-pick dishonestly-worded biased questionnaire answers deliberately conflating illness with mental distress, using it backwards to show that mental distress and fear of getting sick with COVID, are the main "predictive" factors...

Pertinent and timely. Those issues indeed are effectively more important than ever with COVID, as they directly concern future harms that are already known and will be forced onto, coercively and dishonestly, to this unsuspecting patient population despite decades of well-documented harm. One...