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This looks to me like part of 'the system'. It allows very open and democratic but is the complete opposite. You get elected if you are the right sort of chap as defined by the right sort of chaps. Anyone casting doubt on any other right sort of chap will be politely told they will not be needed...

This appears to be an abject admission of failure: "Agency officials don't plan to begin requiring that homeopathic products get approval — officials say that would be impractical" Why would it be impractical? The case that precipitated this seems to be one in which atropine (belladonna) was...

I think it all becomes too speculative to link a relative with AS to ME. But it would be an interesting epidemiological question as to whether there was a familial link.

I had not noticed this thread. In general I agree with what has been said. However, it is a bit more complicated because 'auto inflammatory' tends to be used for diseases that at least sometimes feature inflammation but which are not known to be associated with a specific auto reactive antibody...

I hear that message very clearly, Trish. Men may get treated as flabby wimps but I am aware that for ME there is a significant sexist narrative.

The total that has come in is I think around £11,000. Jack is hoping to get it up to £15,000. Not far off!

Your question is very clear @Inara The answer is actually quite complicated but not too difficult to understand. The person who explained it best was a vet called David Bennett who had the nice touch of showing all his dog patients with the face blacked out for anonymity! To make use of a test...

No, it does not in itself indicate anything strange because a similar proportion of normal people also have autoantibodies. Autoantibodies are not necessarily a sign of anything wrong.

Very kind of you Trish but I am the norm. Male dominated research on males simply does not exist at least in the UK. Far fewer resources have gone into prostate cancer than breast cancer. Far fewer into ankylosing spondylitis than lupus.

I am certainly not suggesting any banning. I just think that science-based and evidence-based and fetus are rather more useful terms than diversity. And Trump gets votes by waving words like diversity in front of his supporters. On the Guardian today someone is reported as having said how...

It is just that there is no reason to us the word 'diversity' in biomedical science because it is a term for a pseudoquantity that has no relevance other than to politics. I can well see diverse being used. But what is the 'diversity' of three white women a black man and a pussy cat? Is it...

Rubbish, @Valentijn, epidemiology has always included breakdown by gender and race. That is how we know that more men than women died in the great Spanish flu epidemic. This business of 'male dominated research' is loony. Most medical graduates in the UK are now female with a higher than...

I don't think diversity has any place in this sort of document. Diversity is a code word used by the left where the US right use 'poor' - both mean black. If you mean black say black. Diversity is used to manipulate situations just as much as right wing terms. I have never had a reason to use...

I remember way back thinking that maybe one should not make too much fuss about the 'feasibility study' since it would not produce data that could be manipulated for inappropriate conclusions. I also remember being puzzled that I had never heard about a full study going ahead when the results...

Absolutely right. Antibody titres bear no relation to how well the thyroid is doing. The ones we measure are probably not even the ones involved in damaging the thyroid. They are just a useful indicator that the damage is autoimmune. It's a bit like weighing your shopping bag to see if you...

I'm not sure the spelling is what matters. I think the suggestion was that someone was practising as in practising the piano rather than practising medicine. Maybe not quite up to speed yet.

I think Charles still represents MEA on the CMRC but this may have been a smaller meeting. In fact it seems to have been so small that only Holgate and Crawley were there, bar some media people. Hopefully Charles will log in here soon enough. He said he was having a rest from social media but I...

I think if individual Universities/Colleges ran their own publishing they would be motivated to police their own people's standards otherwise they would rapidly get a general reputation for being 'dodgy'. Institutions with good staff doing good work could afford to lay everything bare and still...

The sight of that woman would make me run a mile. She isn't even wearing a blue cardigan for Christ's sake.

Charles Shepherd said to me yesterday that he has being having a bit of a rest from social media with the other place debacle. However, he is now aware of the move to S4ME and I suspect will surface again in a while.