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Well this is a dumpster fire. Looks like things are going to get much worse before they get better. Of all the fields of science that should regress this badly, that it is medicine that is going all in on pseudoscience is seriously messed up. Fuck it let's go balls to the wall and just bring...

That combined with the positive self-reported results from the Rituximab trial makes it clear that subjective outcomes should be entirely eliminated as primary outcomes. Secondary? Sure, indicative of something possible, at best. But as primary outcomes? Might as well be doing particle physics...

I still have a hard time accepting that there are people out there who think this is serious research. This is a cult, not science. Alchemy was seriously more rigorous than this. The words sound smart but they mean nothing. Just an endless circle jerk over the color of the emperor's naked ass...

By far the most ironic thing in all this is how, despite the psychosocial belief system, most ME patients seriously downplay their symptoms. They have no idea.

By what illogic is a 100% psychological model transdiagnostic? There is not a single aspect to their model that is not wholly psychosomatic. It even reduces it further by strictly limiting to imaginary thoughts and beliefs, which make up a tiny segment of psychology. Especially when it...

From projects like this I'm really looking forward for an evaluation of the entire body of psychosomatic medical research to show how, other than terminology, it still parrots the exact same tropes as a full century ago, unchanged and just as hollow. The phrasing may be different but the...

You can see that clearly in people rehabilitating nerve damage. They strain through the effort like they are doing high-intensity training, sweating and breathing hard, even when all they're doing is raising a leg or an arm. This aspect is seriously underestimated and with the rising FND crap...

That's the difference between a cruise ship, the HMS PACE, and an exploration vessel: it has a predetermined destination and in fact the whole of the journey is built around arriving at the destination at a time set far in advance. The outcomes used are so random, as if they just threw darts at...

Interesting. This looks preliminary, but promising. Looking forward to more. The left field has entered the chat

I don't think so. But simply taking the example of Australia and the UK, having implemented guidelines based on the psychosocial model for 17 and 12 years respectively without showing any significant improvement makes that point. We just don't have enough good quality data to make a direct...

Yeah, the blood thing is a bit too on the nose as this lot has pools of blood on their hands. Made a difference alright. Like the bubonic plague. That made a huge difference in the same direction.

Particularly given the growing body of evidence that shows a massive gulf between the perception and claims of its promoters with patient surveys and research that still find ME at the very bottom of the quality of life index, with no difference between countries that adopted the CBT/GET...

Reckless is probably more apt than lax. Whatever the circumstances and beliefs, to simply not perform even the most basic monitoring, quality control, evaluation of efficacy and safety checks on medical treatments is simply unacceptable. It doesn't matter that people involved simply use the...

Perfectionism in psychosomatic research seems to play about the same role as aura in spiritual-based pseudosciences. It's that undefined thing that can be used to mean just about anything and can be "measured" to show just about anything you want, whichever direction a belief system needs it to...

This almost reads like a parody of human behavior. Very infantilizing. I can almost hear the sing-songy praise.

This is entirely "work will set you free" mentality. It's telling people to be content with breadcrumbs despite being declared "fully healthy" by some jackasses who pretend it's completely normal to have the same ability to function as an octogenarian all throughout your 20's. I was a...

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That would be great. Is contact with Monaghan mostly ad hoc or does someone have a continued relationship with her and/of her office? Normally the opposition/shadow minister of health should also have some interest in this. It's clear misuse of public funds and blatantly unethical to dispense...

I recently got a notice from Amazon about the totals and as of June 9, $10,680 was raised for the OMF, with a recent quarterly total of $1,022, out of a grand total of $134.9M to date. Sadly doesn't work from Canada.

The Wikipedia page on the LP is a huge mess, highly editorialized and not up to encyclopedia standards at all. At least it's listed in pseudoscience.