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Interesting: Technically this is not an ME study but it would likely qualify as the largest study on the disease to date. If the funding is truly adequate anyway. I would like to know more about that study, who is funding it and to what amount? Because the money can never be found when it comes...

Tabloids gonna tabloid. That no one else would run that ridiculous airing of grievances says a lot by itself. And the weird PACE post-hoc analysis that was basically self-published. They are a small fringe that managed to get attention but have run out of corners to paint themselves into. These...

Meh. That will age very poorly, it already smells pretty bad. These people frankly sound unhinged and detached from reality. Not exactly smart to make it loud and clear they are completely oblivious to what is happening to us and repeating the same old tired lies about this representing a small...

It's really puzzling how "it's better than nothing" is argued as significant. "Better than nothing" is literally what people say and mean when they receive something they don't want or intend to use, that it will be of no use but still something, even useless, is better than nothing, meaning if...

Literally a check on every single feature other than assertions of claims of a conspiracy in the scientific community, but only because the pseudoscience has effectively succeeded at regulatory capture. Which is massively worse and represents complete system failure. Meanwhile "professional...

Yiiish. This does not inspire confidence in the slightest. I would say my confidence in Cochrane's ability to do the right thing has dropped significantly and it was already close to zero. It shows significant organizational dysfunction for the editor-in-chief to be involved to such a degree...

Does this look to anyone else like they couldn't get a serious journal to publish this and basically self-published? Look at the the board of this backwater journal, basically a who's who of quackery.

I'm really not sure how people can seriously argue this is not a belief system given this is what makes it into published literature. What doesn't make it is even less credible and here we are literally discussing "I have witnessed". Arguing that personal anecdotes should be considered more...

Uh? It's basically the foundation of psychosomatics, or something like it. That's what pinning chronic illnesses on the mad speed of modern life means, or whatever many forms that argument takes. It's explicit in neurasthenia. I'm not sure I've ever seen a psychosomatic model that did not...

Especially given how trivial it is to run a queue system that alerts about wait times, say by SMS or email. It's a simple failure of will to remain stuck in technical limitations that don't exist anymore. Hell, most of medicine should be asynchronous by now, having to interact with people for...

Unfortunately that relationship change was a one-time deal and no lesson was learned from it. In fact the scientific/regulatory community, Fauci included, basically outdid themselves not learning those lessons and failed even worse after that not-learning-of-lessons. That would have been great...

It reflects such a sheltered life for someone to seriously argue that modern life is more stressful than what our ancestors endured. I'll always be amazed at the mediocrity of it, it doesn't even pass the laugh test. Yes, buddy professor of the mind, you totally have it worse than our...

Let's rephrase it a bit and see how it goes: “Got well from MS with shoving aged urine up her ass. The brawl started when she wanted to help other patients to recover”. By all means go ahead and defend the equivalent of shoving urine up the ass to cure MS. After all the LP company claims their...

Selective reporting of data is not an acceptable practice. The plan was to measure activity at the beginning and end of the trial, not do some BS analysis trying to cherry-pick random correlations from only one initial measure. This is infantile in its incompetence. Mythbusters were more...

Just watched it. Much better than the first video, where he had confused some of the BPS research as being significant, rather than, you know, what killed the field for the last several decades. Frankly pretty good overall, though still clearly unaware of the decades of history and, especially...

Liaison psychiatry is just a recent re-branding of psychosomatics. Like BPS was just a re-branding of psychosocial. Same substance, just wearing a fake mustache. Same as FND is conversion disorder. Same as MUS is hysteria. And all those things are also the same thing as each other. It's entirely...

A full century after the first lines of debate, the very same lines are still being debated. Exactly as is, without change or progress. It's hard to dispute that when the same people are literally bringing up the exact same debate from a full century ago as being relevant to the debate happening...

They're thought-terminating clichés. Their intent is to kill debate with irrelevant waffling. Pure sophistry and completely inappropriate considering this is not a debate at all, there are millions of lives at stake and debating ignorant opinions is a sideshow to distract away from the evidence...

My initial symptoms were pretty bizarre, mostly neurological. It became significant with months of headaches and dizziness, then sudden loss of consciousness, dizziness, shaky on my feet, lightheaded, tachycardia and whole-body shaking as if I were hypothermic. I had trouble focusing, could...

I've been seeing far too many articles talking about a post-pandemic period, not just asking if but basically arguing it's over. We don't all live in the same information universe. Some people consume nothing but tabloid rags and Facebook memes, if anything at all. Some journalists are exactly...