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Without looking at the details it's hard to say but this looks useful at first glance. Numbers appear a bit low, frankly, I'm not sure how one can have a diagnosis of ME without some form of impairment, other than in remission. What's hardest is in building a sample representative of the range...

This is basically false advertisement. There is no credible basis for those claims. Making outlandish claims is a clear marker of fraudulent research. This is part of why people distrust experts. That and reactionaries who point at stuff like that and yell "See? All they do is lie about their...

Is it really research when you can predict, almost verbatim, what will in be the conclusions? And when your conclusions contain the very questions that are supposed to be answered, unanswered, is it really meaningful research? This is "research" that contributes nothing. I have no idea what...

I'm sorry but this reads exactly like detoxing or optimizing the immune system or other junk pseudoscience. How does someone make the mental leaps from inflammation to CBT? And if we are talking about the possibility of half of all mortality, it really sounds like efforts should be somewhere...

That's a weird framing. Tuller is not a "senior fellow" because Berkeley's website says it, he is a senior fellow because the Berkeley faculty decided so. Nitpicky but still, what is with the weird framing?

That's the actual suggestion they are making and frankly this is on the same level as 5G is giving people COVID.

Recovery Norge has a direct financial and reputational conflict of interest here. I understand this is a tabloid but running this is basically free advertisement for a commercial product that is organized in the form of a pyramid scheme. Recovery Norge has no other stakes involved here, they are...

They can't even do that in normal times so this is either straight up delusional or a blatant scam, likely both. IAPT is a complete disaster and they've been working on that for years with zero oversight or pressure and it could not produce worse results. BPS has been around for decades and they...

This could be good but what is the reference to the CMRC education? Involving this organization does not bring confidence in the slightest. If they even exist anymore? Seeing as they do no visible work anyway.

Oh, sure, it makes total sense to blame those most hurt by a debacle about which we had no direct involvement. Absolutely. Smart.

It's weird, I didn't really catch on just how incredibly weird and frankly insane the war rhetoric is in the first place but this is a good point to raise. If there is any war analogy to be used it's one of a hostile occupying force engaged in oppression of a vulnerable population, a completely...

Ridiculous response. This study in its current form offers nothing of value and medical authorities should not be in the business of funding random alternative treatments that exist in the form of commercial products, especially ones that make blatantly unscientific false claims based on woo...

Minor point but I object to calling this a hypothesis, it is unfalsifiable and therefore merely an assumption presented without any evidence. There is simply no basis for something so hollow and unproven to carry any weight whatsoever in making medical decisions or in guiding research funding...

Case in point. A few tweets in the thread below from Gerada were subsequently deleted after many users pointed out they were excessive and out of line. And the gall to speak of "lobbying group" when silencing patients speaking out about systemic failure, especially from someone who wields...

12 years for the Wakefield paper. 9 years ongoing for PACE. The Lancet appears to be the New York Times of medical journals, a reputation unearned for an organization pathologically unable to rise to the moment.

That was a great response. Clear and, unlike the original piece, coherent. Also unlike the original piece: actual facts. Bold move. My mind more or less exploded when I found out that Greco has an MA in Critical Theory. Seriously. I just can't wrap my head around being this bad at my chosen...

The Chinese government did the same and it was pretty controversial at the time so I hope this will be too. Whew this is so bad. And when damage control takes precedence it only further commits to the initial mistakes. Ideology guiding medicine is always horrible. This practice has to end.

Self-awareness level: -11.

I understand the difficulties, but I will put on record that it is my form opinion that the authors are refusing to retract the review strictly and wholly because of the reputational damage they and their colleagues will suffer and for no other reason. I will also add that the review itself has...

Something that is really easy to show in a formal way. Would actually be great to do that. Not sure it would change anything since BPS beliefs are impervious to evidence but at least it should be done. But we're kind of stuck in a place where we have so little funds that it would be a waste to...