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Title: New research into chronic fatigue syndrome https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1629700163861 This is a great report. Really did their research. Wow. Incredible achievement by those who helped make this happen. Scott. Sabrina. Dr Moreau and his team. Minister Petitpas-Taylor. Everyone else...

Technically, who knows better about politically motivated science reporting than those engaging in it? Straight from the horse's ass!

Senator Steele-John is a hero. Glad he is taking this on.

Not even sure what would be the point here. Most illnesses are "20th century" in the sense that before then we did not understand enough to know about most. Modern medicine pretty much began in the early 20th century, before then medicine did way more harm than good (BTW, watch The Knick, a...

Excellent, as always. I hope people who organize conferences and other types of public talk are made aware of your videos, they make clear and concise presentations that are ideal for this format.

This is disastrous and completely disqualifies the trial of any conclusions. When nearly half of participants are so disappointed in what they saw that they don't bother responding, that's a sign that you screwed up. It's seriously remarkable that you can find in the same paragraph that CBT is...

Bad title, as usual. Mostly OK article. Fumbled on the WHO recognizing the disease in 2015, rather than 1969. The title isn't only bad because of the fatigue but because it says research begins in earnest. That has yet to happen. The network is the step that may make research begin, it is step...

Skimming this and: multiple violations and missed requirements but it's all good because if those are retroactively fixed, did it really happen at all? Also of note: optional requirements. Apparently those are all the rage lately. Damn. Orwell would be impressed by this one. A panel openly...

A pretty good paper. Despite, as some of the comments pointed out, some language that can and will be abused by saboteurs as they are worded in an ambiguous way, but then that happens regardless so whatever. It raises the important point of how CBT is otherwise never considered curative. That...

I think that's mostly because typically something isn't considered a legitimate disease until its mechanism is known? For common parlance disease should definitely be used, there's just a higher threshold in scientific literature. Granted, that's not helpful given the reality of some people...

I don't remember exactly and not sure if this is it, I thought what I remembered was peer reviewers' comments to a previous version of the review, but it seems to be the initial response to Robert's comments that basically acknowledged the problems. It certainly highlights that those are not...

Oh, come on. How can it be OK for a licensed physician to blatantly lie like this? The results have been replicated and validated plenty, this garbage doesn't work and is completely inappropriate.

I gotta say, it's pretty funny that his specialty is about how stress affects health and even he is like "hold up, that's clearly not at all what's happening here". Good framing to highlight human failings. This is really the gist of what is happening, the same old problem of people being too...

https://consultations.nhmrc.gov.au/public_consultations/submissions/mecfs_2019a?

Granted, I am moderate-severe, ~99% housebound but have never been bedbound. But then anyone who can participate in such a study is unlikely to be this severe so it wouldn't really be applicable. Worse off and I could see some use if truly necessary to completely avoid going above a certain...

I think it's a valid argument in that whatever the explanation is for ME, it is clearly beyond our current scientific understanding as we would otherwise have gotten something tangible. The fact that we are completely abandoned meanwhile is a different issue altogether and frankly has little to...

There is probably a strong point to make about how this hypothesis conflicts with another concept promoted by the same researchers: the boom and bust. There is no such thing as fluctuating deconditioning anymore than there is such a thing as sudden deconditioning, two characteristics that are...

Agreed on that. Immediate withdrawal is the only reasonable choice to make. It is politically difficult to do and unlikely to happen but it is inevitable with time, as meanwhile Cochrane is recommending a treatment paradigm that is documented to be harmful in numerous independent surveys that...

I will just leave this here for no particular reason. It is indeed terrible. And true. Truly terrible.