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It would be well worth the money but I don't know who could spare the funds for this. Of course this should normally be a required step in the psychosocial alternative model of medicine, if it were a legitimate area of research. Some of the studies don't even involve genuine control arms but...

Uhhhh... that and avoiding deterioration, with a direct corollary that the treatment itself should not either, as well as many other types of benefits. Increasing activity is the tail end of treatments, a whole lot usually happens on the way there. He speaks of later stages but increasing...

Right! It wasn't in the review itself it was simply in the library, listed as a relevant paper for CFS.

That makes exactly as much sense as claiming to have a Parkinson's mouse model by subjecting mice to cold and therefore have them shaking uncontrollably. And for good measure, it's equally cruel. Superficial similarities are a specific problem of classification and no expert should be confused...

Probably diagnostic. Some MS cases are fairly straightforward but most aren't so it's not universal. It leads to the same uncertainty and have-you-tried-yoga? until a diagnosis is officially made. Essentially it takes specialist expertise to confirm a case, the biomarkers aren't sufficiently...

I wouldn't say it has a conflict of interest problem. I would say it has many. And a crisis of reliability. And a refusal to acknowledge it or change anything about it. And promoting the creep of pseudoscience within medicine by merely adorning a psychobabble hat, rather than the usual spiritual...

I think it's good that physiotherapists have knowledge of ME but I don't see what use it could have to ME patients other than for unrelated problems, where the specific limitations of ME are taken into account rather than treated as hostile noncompliance to be referred to gaslighting "therapy"...

Irony taken all the way to 11. He is describing himself exactly, with painful precision, and somehow thinks he is describing his critics. I don't know if it's delusion or projection, or likely both. He is the very problem he is describing, a perfect avatar of Dunning-Kruger and Peter principle...

Likely followed by a talk on vaccine safety by Andrew Wakefield and a panel on the scientific method sponsored by Goop.com and NaturalNews. The talk is the pros and cons so I guess it's worthwhile debate to involve people smearing, bullying and insulting patients trying to engage with health...

Ooof. The contrast between public and private research should be a punch of embarrassment in the gut of everyone involved in the public side. One's a clown car, the other is actual research by serious researchers. It's like a two-stage festival where one side plays real bands while the other...

This shift happens to align with the disastrous status quo. It is actually the foundation of why things are so bad, integrating woo-woo alternative medicine into the fold of genuine medical practice by lowering the bar for an alternative research tract built on clinical psychology, itself in the...

It's almost inevitable that proponents of spiritual-based alternative medicine will use this opportunity opened by psychobabble-based alternative medicine. It will be quite interesting, to watch people slowly come to that realization and be confused about why people can't tell the difference now...

So the journal raised issues with the paper and still published it. Cochrane did the same with its reviews. Medical journals with an international reputation and outreach are knowingly publishing papers and reviews that do not pass their own peer review criteria and disavow all responsibility in...

The premise of those statements is that in GET is some secret ingredient based on specialist knowledge, which is not the case. This is a common trope, basically a No True Scotsman fallacy, that only real GET done by certified professionals, blessed by the PACE bishops, should work, even though...

Color me skeptical. "Hey, chief, should we, I don't know, validate that description?" "... nah"

Only one reply by Erik and it's a pretty apt. Can't really fish for replies he could pretend are abusive since he blocked nearly everyone who would bother. Victim mentality only works when you convince others of it, that's all he's trying to do. But his rambling article is so bad that I doubt...

Too bad this is always skipped and never actually happens as indicated. It's literally impossible with available tools and techniques to make that distinction. May as well rely on the confirmation of a unanimous decision from a panel of fairies for all that this description matters. And who...

We know the answer to that. The logic over the safety of those treatments is entirely circular. They are safe because there are no reports of harm and it is not possible to report harm because they are known to be safe. The trials did not do due diligence and neither is the implementation of...