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Gonna need some high-quality ointments for that burn. Oof. When the alternative medicine industry is very slowly telling medical authorities "this looks very fishy and you should reconsider because even for us the woo is laid on way too thick", again, is as good a sign as any that the medical...

Such "treatments" have officially been in clinical use for 2 decades in Australia, over a decade in the UK and many years in other countries. What. Are. The. Outcomes? Why examine the experiences of clearly useless and baseless pseudoscience mumbo jumbo? Especially as it's clear from those...

Some promising things but we are about, what, 3 years into that process? Which itself is one specific process out of efforts dating back years prior. There's moving slowly and then there's this. I just want people to stop getting hurt by charlatans peddling the worst form of snake oil ever...

100% A broken process produces broken results. The process is broken and cannot be relied upon to produce better results until the process itself is corrected. The process allowed an irrelevant and misleading question to be given way more attention that is deserved. There is simply no basis to...

Oh so this is like what they did with PACE for people who dropped out they just used the last score. When you normalize fraud you get more fraud. When you need fraud to push something to the starting line you have to keep the fraud all the way through the race. But fraud gets heavier and...

What the hell is this word salad? Lies, damned lies and statistics.

Exercise is good. I always loved exercise. I miss exercise. It is not a treatment for post-exertional... let's go with exacerbation. I have a feeling the name PEM may vanish from vocabulary soon enough. Though maybe not the best choice of acronym. The BPS cult will promote their exercise...

Definitely that one.

Radical transparency is the way. Put it all out there, lift the veil of secrecy. That's what's so powerful about Tuller's work, it's like open source journalism, it's accountability by sunlight, the best and strongest disinfectant (not actually true but whatever bear with me here). One day PhDs...

Because it's actually fatigue and other symptoms and way more serious than it's made up to be? Yeah, we know. But fatigue is fatigue, whether it's light or crushing, the same way as a bee sting and a total bone fracture are pain yet on wholly different levels. It was always catastrophically...

Wow. Even worse than it first appeared and it looked like a dumpster fire right out the gate, though clearly long before that. Lessons learned from PACE, SMILE and the rest: cheat, cheat all you want because nothing you do actually matters, the ends justify the means. Then lie about cheating and...

Given support for yet another methodologically-flawed experiment, I don't think she'd consider those problematic, merely the ends justifying the means. Of course in any other context for a non-discriminated disease all those flaws would individually be disqualifying but that's the beauty of...

Those past decisions are the only ones that affect the present and future, until other decisions supersede them anyway. They are the very reason this is happening in the first place. I'm not surprised that Cochrane hopes to hinge everything on future decisions but this is not compatible with...

Not so much debunked as wildly misleading in the first place. Every symptom is unexplained until it is and diagnosis is neither easy nor straightforward. Medical science is so far from being complete that to argue that anything that can't be readily explained in a few seconds cannot exist is...

What? It's literally a reflex that is often done-and-gone in a few minutes. There's literally an entire field of published literature on this being a systemic problem with well-documented disastrous consequences. We are currently living in the golden age of psychosomatics, it's never been more...

Way too much emphasis on fatigue. This will confuse a lot of people unnecessarily. I completely dismissed CFS for years because of this, the obsession with fatigue at the exclusion of everything else is rank incompetence. In fact I see a lot of comments from longish-term COVID patients...

Thank you for this. It's especially problematic that the reliability of the review was confirmed as inadequate with no relevant warnings while it is still being cited in clinical practice without those issues being acknowledged, and not in a small way but by NHS trusts themselves. Frankly that...

Religious-like conviction. "I've seen anecdotes" + misrepresenting a methodologically-flawed experiment that is obviously not a proper RCT and actually showed the opposite of what she argues. Also a few positive anecdotes of dubious applicability somehow far outweigh thousands and thousands of...

Why is this newspaper blatantly doing PR here? Really weird and hard to justify.

But not on a randomized sample. Not everyone is susceptible to this kind of manipulation, even discounting the fact that they select for the mildest patients and, mostly, not even ME patients. You have to pledge belief in the treatment, this is a required selection process for LP. This cannot be...