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Was this study needed? No. Will they stop claiming that stress plays a role in FND, because cortisol or not? No. Will they keep searching for something, anything, to support their belief system? The conclusion says so with more demand for yet more useless studies about nothing.

It's been 4 years, FFS. This is very misleading. And this is false. No objective improvements have ever been shown, certainly not as a result of any rehabilitation program. Lies. Liiiiiiiies.

Uh, is the therapy equivalent of "hey, psst, you, do drugs, we got some" not as cracked up as it was made to be? Without much concern for what drugs, for what usage, what dosage, or how it relates to the problem? If it even has anything to do with the problem? If they even understand the...

None of the research actually conclude the effectiveness, they merely assert it event though their own evidence never supports it. There is simply no effort made to understand what the problem is, or how exercise relates to it. 4 years and they can't even get the basic stuff right. They don't...

Bizarrely, I saw this study promoted in many places, framed this way by McMaster university it seems, as if "busting the myth" that viruses cause neurological disease, because rather it's the immune system's response. Which is really a bizarre potato-potahto since there is no infectious disease...

Bystander activated CD8+ T cells mediate neuropathology during viral infection via antigen-independent cytotoxicity Nature, open access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44667-0 Abstract Although many viral infections are linked to the development of neurological disorders, the...

They don't even know half of it. They seem to be flagging academic mills in other countries but are overlooking the same, far more insidious, problem much closer to home. And the two are closely linked together. The degradation of academic that allows BS like the biopsychosocial ideology and...

It seems to give them the illusion of doing something that they consider harmless, because the harms of SSRIs have been dismissed for decades. Basically it's win-win as long as you simply don't count the losses. For decades it's been argued that even though it only helps a few, it's worth it...

And yet they have been widely used from day 1. Evidence is not needed here, this is evidence-based medicine. Because in truth: And yet: I haven't seen any of this. The patients have been there all along, screaming into the void, but the systems are still stubbornly clinging to the failed...

What a novel, groundbreaking even, idea. Turns out that completely ignoring patients' needs isn't a good strategy. Like putting up nets to avoid smoke. Now if only that didn't mean many more years of the same pseudoscience that completely ignores patients' needs in response because somehow...

So it: Makes no notable difference Even in patients who don't have significant PEM or exhaustion Does not even increase exercise capacity Is expensive and resource-intensive Takes precious energy away from patients who often struggle with ADLs Seems appropriate The Aristocrats Evidence-based...

Sounds like the old excuse "the print plates have already been produced and aligned on the press so it's too late" except there is no such actual blocker and they just can't bother doing their job. Or maybe their dog ate, uh, their keyboard? It's really a lot harder these days to have legitimate...

Getting a sense of cluster bombs here. Tiny code bombs executing pathogenic functions long after the mother bomb has fragmented. How weird to have insisted on "not a live virus" when viruses aren't even 'alive' and really just a bunch of proteins about which we still understand very little. The...

Reminds me of the people who trash recipes by commenting that they substituted 4 ingredients, halved one, doubled another, and the recipe is not good! I thought MDs were better than this. It's been a while since I thought that, but I used to think that. Then again when the standard approach to...

No bottle-at-sea cohort? Disappointed.

Uhhhh. OK. See, we've ALWAYS been at war with East Asia. The feud with West Asia didn't start recently, it was a long time coming, and we will win thanks to our long-time allies in East Asia. Objectively, I'm really not sure if this is actually better than dunking poor women in water to check...

The US Census bureau conducts regular surveys of various population data, and they have included questions about the long-term impacts of Long Covid. The data appear roughly in line with what Statistics Canada has reported, although a bit higher. Censuses are probably the best method for this...

Maybe some. But I've seen a number of people reporting that according to their GP, they don't have Long Covid, they have depression, also they don't have any patient with Long Covid. So I guess they are all either not coded, or coded as depression, or who knows what else. And that probably...

Arbitrary opinions are arbitrary. And without a biological explanation, it's all that medicine seems capable of doing. Weird and capricious. Basically looks like this, it all starts off as complete derp, then moves on to being serious. Somehow, the complete derp has to keep existing, like it's...

Hum, not quite. Claims. Baseless assertions. Used to support entire treatment models and derived services. It has gone way, way beyond concerns, it has been operationalized for decades based on nothing but 19th century vibes. It started with beliefs, not really concerns, but it has snowballed...