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The quoted tweets are the nicer ones. I guess the man who was the most hated doctor in the UK a few decades ago is still the most hated doctor in the UK. Having never budged from the reasons why he is rightfully hated, in fact having continued further into it. Funny how that works.

Dude is just not motivated to live healthily. Is the biopsychosocial explanation for his illness. What absurd crockery.

Not encouraging: "The Clinical Post COVID Society is a joint initiative between NHS England and British Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (BSPRM)"

Infection-associated chronic conditions, such as Long COVID, have been notoriously difficult to solve. Despite years of research, the underlying biological mechanisms for conditions such as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome and a...

Regardless of how laughably bad this study is, and despite the claims of placebo being untested in conversion disorder, this is not the only one: Harnessing Placebo Effects for the Treatment of Functional Cognitive Disorder: A Feasibility Pilot Study 2024 Burke, Perez et al It's not as if the...

This is extremely weird and obsessive grasping at straws. It doesn't pretend to make sense, it's all so random and arbitrary about finding alternative causes, any alternative cause, no matter how senseless and unrealistic. The equivalent of finding a gas can, chemical analysis showing the...

Pretty good, and right on that it's part of a broader problem. The author says they have more to pursue on it. I wonder at what point does this misleading advertising get countered by the growing use of "the treatment actually is the placebo" in biopsychosocial ideology, simply claiming that...

This is some impressive Big brother fuckery right here, the kind that very rarely happens because it's too obvious*. This was a plain statement of fact, and it's removed simply because it makes them look bad. It's indefensible. Very similar to Cochrane's backtracking on acknowledging that the...

They seem completely oblivious that the very construct of psychosomatic illness is itself discrimination and the source of most of its stigma. Society doesn't do that just because, they do that because this is how medicine treats us, describes us and advises how to approach us. Not recognizing...

What garbled mess

I was really stunned seeing this. It's so brazen. They're basically arguing that less rigorous is better, as has been increasingly argued in recent years, that you can simply imagine it to be better and pretend that it could be. It makes zero sense as an argument, but that's just par for the...

That this is being touted as impressive says a lot. It could not be a smaller effect, could not be more biased or misleading in having excluded the main problem in Long Covid and chosen the least likely cohort of hospitalized patients, while most with LC were not. And yet it's IMPRESSIVE in bold...

That makes it close to 10 papers from the DanFund study, and there is no reason for that. The individual papers are all on small aspects from the same data. It should have been one paper, two at most. This looks close to an academic scam, where the researchers managed to pull off getting...

I'm not sure it helps much to misrepresent the psychosomatic view as a fringe thing. It's THE thing wherever the biology isn't understood. Fringe players don't dominate an entire profession's view. The establishment psychosomatic view is basically the Empire, but in a scenario where the rebel...

And this being a physical exercise rehabilitation program, the main benefits should be physical. There aren't any. So what role does exercise even play here?! This is madness.

Only 80% primary outcome data. Minimal significance they decided is 0.03, and they have 0.04. In an open label study with subjective outcomes where the aim is always to influence what people think. With 0.03 at 12 months, and 0.02 at 6. You could not have a smaller effect than this. Somehow...

Hmmm. 4/6 = 100% OK, then. So as is tradition, it's a bust, but they report that "it may be of help to some" = effective. This is sick. There is something deeply wrong with this profession.

Even discounting the many decades of precedent, we are closing in on 4 years. Come on, this excuse is close to getting old enough to start kindergarten.

Not sure if this is new but I don't remember seeing it. The NINDS is using a platform called IdeaScale to crowdsource community input for its ME/CFS priorities. https://ninds.ideascalegov.com/c/landing I saw it from Elizabeth Weaver, who is on the committee and, I think, a neurologist.

Hard to say if this study is rigorous enough to move things forward, but it would be really great if the immunological mechanisms of SSRIs were understood and medicine were able to move beyond the misleading labeling of antidepressants. IMO the acceptance of the bastardized version of depression...