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Weird. I do not consider any change in the CFQ to be clinically significant. None at all. At best it's a secondary measure and a very poor one over a secondary dimension of this disease. It is not a measure of anything other than the researchers' own misunderstanding of the problem and promotion...

There is such overwhelming evidence that Wessely's psychomagic is harmful that it's hard to keep track so just copying this here in case. We keep seeing those surveys independently confirming the same thing that it's easy to forget they have also been showing the same thing for 2 decades...

#1 says to be generally less precise, #2 says use precise terms and #3 says don't use precise terms. Galactic brain in here.

That should probably read "increased pain and lower physical function"?

And there's a solid comparison to make that the people who hijacked ME with their psychosomagic nonsense are to ME what HIV deniers are to AIDS. Their involvement is just as toxic and as devoid of attachment to reality. Main difference is the HIV deniers were kept out while the ME deniers hold a...

Gonna have to work on step 0 first: do not allow negative results to be fraudulently manipulated into false positive ones. Most people would assume this is not possible in this day and age. Sadly, most people would be wrong about that.

Just like it's a "high priority" subject at the MRC. High priority, unless you expect any credible research to be funded, of course.

Pretending to be the real victim is a hallmark behavior of bullies. It doesn't necessarily mean that, as we are definitely victims of bullying and harassment and claiming so rightfully. Difference is nobody believes us because of bullies who force their ideology into actual medical malpractice...

Considering that we know: Participants in sham control arms also tried the active treatments Trial leaders took no effort to account for what patients did (that we know of anyway) and so themselves were not necessarily aware of which patients tried which treatments Trial leaders promised sham...

Occam's razor says the obvious is rather that the assessment of anxiety-related symptoms by questionnaire is a lousy measurement subject to manipulation and is about as reliable as asking participants to self-rate their current blood oxygen saturation. Those questionnaires are always biased in...

Probably nothing will beat a sharp pain in the gut at the slightest trespass into eating too much that ME has brought me. That and the constant nausea. And the bloating. And the pain. I already mentioned pain, but it's actually a different kind of pain. Like, layers of pain. Want to eat a tiny...

AKA cherry-picking. The lack of concern over blatant cherry-picking is very disappointing, especially after written admission of making choices based explicitly on results they prefer.

Not a good look this close after the SMC does a thing about fake news. Because this is fake news. Being slapped in the face by a tribunal was not enough I guess. As a public charity, isn't there a way to have them put up or shut up? And demand records? This is false and libelous. Lying liars...

:dead: That sounds like "cognitive" homeopathy. What complete trash. I really dislike this magical psychology thing. It is extremely silly.

This is the only redeeming feature of the US system. The notion of a physician being concerned about missing a diagnosis is so laughable to me as to be dismissed as delusional. Most of my consults have been less than 5 minutes and many asked me zero questions about what I said, only general...

It's a systemic problem. Physicians don't have the time or resources for that. They are often thought and instructed to minimize investigations into complex cases because they always come at the cost of pushing back acute cases that will quickly deteriorate if not addressed quickly. Truth is, a...

Checks calendar Uh. Weird. Looks like the calendar on my PC is broken. Same with all the ones online. Anyone has the same problem?

It would be devastating to IAPT and the various MUS/FND/CSS/PPS/BDS/BSS/HTML efforts under way. There is a lot of sunk cost into those. Cochrane caved to politics, plain and simple.

What does that say about the numerous research currently under way from the usual suspects? Most of those trials and studies are roughly on the same model, methodology and premise as the papers that went into the review. Schrodinger's research: it doesn't exist until it gives the right answer.

Ugh. Using the Montreal cognitive assessment, used specifically for severe dementia, shows how utterly clueless these dolts are. This is a test where it asks you identify among 3 animals which one is the camel. Come on, this isn't serious, it has nothing whatsoever to do with what we are...