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That really does not suggest a competent measure. At all. Envy is a well-known trait of the very rich and the ordinary rich, always looking at what others have and wanting more. It serves as a status to outdo and make others red with envy. Definitely not people who have low self-esteem or...

Yeah I would not trust anything written in my medical file. Not because it's all wrong but because it's a mix of both right and wrong and so generally useless. Yet another important consequence of having knocked this disease so bad we can't rely on much of what medical records say. Even without...

A spit-and-post is basically how 23andme and others do it and they have international reach but it gets sent to their US locations. DNA seems stable enough for the couple of weeks it would take. I don't know whether the rates of participation will justify it but I would definitely take part if...

This is a great letter. I like this letter very much. I hope it's a learning experience on the other end.

What makes us tick?

This is pretty wild. Looking forward to read more on this. Throwing another wrench in the misguided idea that only active infections matter. Especially how it is critical to the BPS model of ME, that an infection may have occurred but once gone its role should be discarded as no longer relevant...

It pretty much exactly reads like putting a band-aid and ignoring the cause entirely. Given this, giving people free drugs, the recreative kind, would actually produce better results. They may be just as sick, but they'd definitely be thinking happy thoughts. Absurd that this is the very thing...

The thing about lying to yourself is that you also end up lying to others in the process. Some people are OK with that. Others get quite pissed off about it. There are going to be tough questions to be asked about who pocketed money in this. So far IAPT seems to have avoided a serious audit but...

Apparently, psychobabble slightly different from other types of psychobabble and also totally not the thing Eysenck was talking about it's just a coincidence that he thought the same thing! I guess that must be mindfulness, or something like it. It's not magic, it's just indistinguishable...

A competent economist would have taken externalities and opportunity cost into account and understood that the benefits are an illusion when accounting for everything. An accountant would only have seen the accounted-for money and been more easily fooled. They should have gone with competent...

Ouch. That's bad. Bold move to take the same approach as the CBT-GET treatment model: don't bother checking. But the thing about not checking whether something works is that it's borrowed time when you waste this much money. When it comes to ME the losses are aggregate and hard to find. Here...

Well, isn't that almost identical to Eyesenck's theories. That turned out well. Wait, no, the opposite. The exact opposite.

How much has been wasted on IAPT already? £1B? I know it's not just CBT but the "evidence base" for it is largely built on CBT trials like PACE and its economic analysis. It showed so much promise. Unless you actually looked at the evidence, of course. Like PACE's own economic analysis that was...

Player 3 has joined the game: neurotoxins. Neurotoxin may have caused diplomats’ illness in Cuba: study https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-diplomats-canada-idUSKBN1W42QU

That's a very biased assumption. It could be that whatever "anxiety" means here is a result of, not the cause. Anxiety is typically excessive worry about specific things. If we're talking about the impact of sleep loss, we're not at all talking about the same thing. Too much caffeine gives the...

What are the stated benefits of redefining fatigue as meaning many different things? Has anyone ever bothered justifying that? Fatigue has both a common meaning and a medical meaning, the distinction mostly being down to a severity scale. What is the point in giving a unique concept multiple...

Can it really be said that those were lower if the reductions are not statistically significant? That sentence should have simply read "Event duration and psychiatric symptom severity were not statistically significant." Adding to the bias of considering them psychogenic, determined strictly by...

I checked the FACIT-F questionnaire (https://www.facit.org/FACITOrg/Questionnaires). Not half-bad, but has a bunch of questions that poorly distinguish can't and won't. However, it's miles above the CFQ as it asks additional relevant questions and is an absolute scale. Big question mark on what...

Both of which would still be listed as FND had it been more difficult to find objective evidence. Adding yet more evidence of a category error, the error being the creation of an arbitrary and illusionary category based on superficial misunderstanding. Meanwhile the literature on FND and...

But I keep hearing how it's a subjective illness experience so how can people who don't experience the thing provide any insight? Might as well ask chefs to rate what they think their clients rate their food for all that this is relevant. No, it can't. That's aspirational, not a statement of...