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I ask myself that question routinely and there is frankly no good reason other than people not wanting any bad news about what they are doing, basically doing the equivalent of creative (aka criminal) accounting of just counting income and ignoring expenses. Which is actually a Simpsons gag...

Flottorp is completely incoherent. Almost reads like drunken ramblings. This wouldn't even be an acceptable quality standard to run an ice cream shop. These people are complete amateurs, I have no idea how this is considered serious and credible.

"What if we actually compared apples and oranges?" said very weird people. Really starting to think that the main reason medical research is so expensive is because so much of it serves absolutely no purpose and has no chance whatsoever of providing anything of value, that there is a tendency...

I'm having a hard time deciding whether this is a low-effort content mill or a serious article. Covid-19 Fatigue Syndrome: Finding the Unknown and Unknowable https://pro.psychcentral.com/covid-19-fatigue-syndrome-finding-the-unknown-and-unknowable/ Serious or satire? I really can't tell.

Oof. This is especially bad. Some of the graphics make me think of conspiracy theorists putting random labels and arrows on various concepts and pretending it means something. Seriously you have to look at it to appreciate it in full. It mostly boils down to cheap philosophy over the duality of...

This is a terrible response from the Lancet. The op-ed is in June's edition, they were not overburdened until then and I see no reason why psychiatry should be so overwhelmed by an infectious disease pandemic. It's insulting in its weakness. This is not how scientific debate works. Stifling...

Excellent. Again. The whole series is just excellent. It's nice to see faces to familiar names. The absurdity of this being known and documented and happening alongside the descent into madness in Norway and Denmark is frankly incredible. I've only had a few short episodes of severe symptoms...

Pretty much :) Although I think of it more as "energy efficient". I have to say it comes in handy when having to deal with the ME monster, I was energy efficient before I had to be.

This all really sounds like things they easily should have planned for. If the plan is "paint myself in the corner" you can't really use the fact that you are stuck in a corner as an excuse for being stuck there. This is typical for BPS but totally inexcusable of journals and various oversight...

It's only one person's perspective but I am generally speaking a stoic, stress response is not really part of my behavior. I have kept perfectly normal conversations going while smashing the brakes to avoid a close automobile collision. Twice. It's not a skill or anything, I am just generally...

Really missing a chef's kiss emoticon right now.

That it takes the single most disruptive event in human history for medicine to "discover" something that has been denied for years despite ample evidence.

Ridiculous. There is no way to measure focus in any meaningful way and obviously stronger symptoms are more noticeable. Good grief this is so juvenile in its incompetence how these people are even allowed to work on important matters is beyond reason. One of the most fundamental problems in...

Very insightful and necessary discussion. It only marginally concerns us but only because this is about the much broader issues in evidence-based medicine. That line about author bias, though, absolutely perfect. The underlying problems are as fundamental as it gets and are far from unique or...

There's a reason placebo is the control for nothing in formal trials: it is nothing. It's a measurement error that occurs only about things that can't be measured. Whenever anything is measured it disappears, because that's all it is, an imprecision from being unable to formally measure...

Uh. Good catch. Another lie exposed, again. Official lie, even.

With the Cochrane review and NICE guidelines coming up, I expect there will be more of this. It's always maximized for PR effect and there were pretty much promises of scorched earth attacks on Cochrane if they did the right thing, it's likely that this will be even worse given the high stakes...

Well this is interesting. Odd, but interesting.

Somehow that's never part of the discussion even though it has incredibly damaging impact, all the way to denial of medical care. These people are literally our bullies and like all bullies they always play the victim. It's disgusting, morally bankrupt.

A project from what seems to be the Stanford Division of Pain Medicine surveying the patient community over the notion of pain catastrophising and how to better define and label it. I did not manage to offer an alternative name. I am not fond of the proffered alternatives either. It's pretty...