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I will forever be puzzled at how smart people are so confused by the simple fact that people who have previously touched a very hot stove are motivated by not touching the very hot stove again and insist that people should instead be motivated at touching the very hot stove. False attribution...

Why ruin a good 2 minutes of hate with facts?

Some people do recreational anger. The "special report" on "harassed" scientists was fodder for this type. Ironically, did not bother doing any research and just repeated fake news, engaging in science denial in the process. Oh, if irony were a currency we would all be richer than Jesus and...

Saw this and it looks like a blog hosted on a newspaper platform. Pretty decent. Translated URL: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freitag.de%2Fautoren%2Fwreiter%2Feine-schreckliche-krankheit Original URL...

When all it takes is basic common sense to discredit a theory...

I don't understand why Horton receives zero criticism for his role in this. Especially as he is doing the exact same thing with PACE. He said the same thing: a vocal activist minority who just don't "like" the results, nevermind that the real results of PACE show failure and the main point of...

Bit ironic considering the recent events with Eysenck and Wessely's past support for his ideas.

Circling the point without ever touching it. At least he is circling it, that's progress of sorts. Just in case my comment does not get published: You provided an excellent example with exercise in diabetes, in that it provides a false equivalency by using the common thread of exercise. At...

That's a gigantic red flag that what is considered "involving mental health" has been stripped of all useful meaning. Bloated belly? Mental health. Loss of hair? Mental health. Soft erections? Oh, you bet that's mental health, mein Sigmund. Belief in magical psychology? Yeah that one but...

So the National Board of Health is incompetent and ideologically guided? I'm no expert but that can't be good. Speaking of doing more harm than good...

It really should not be necessary to explain to researchers why primary subjective outcomes are bad. Even if the rest is moderately competent this just makes it all too suspicious to take seriously. It is better than the typical BPS stuff, but understanding science 101 is still a requirement to...

I definitely agree that a competent BPS model would be beneficial. If it were to exist. As it is practiced, it is simply not competent. It is far too often not even basically ethical. Rather it serves as a slippery slope for magical thinking and ideological brigades. Even worse, it is...

It's seriously tragic that the people who have monopolized and sabotaged this disease for decades strongly advise against support groups, which this forum kinda works as. I was seriously demoralized a few years ago until research started to ramp up and the community started growing online. Hope...

Counterpoint: the BPS model of ME. 100% expectation of success by its creators. 0% success in real life other than questionnaires, which have very little accuracy and are often biased to get this response. F A L S I F I E D Less magical thinking. More science. Please.

Soon the dam will break. Reality has a way of asserting itself. Not nearly soon enough. But it will. It's already spilling all over the place. Crow will be on the menu.

Whatever the people who produced this garbage are doing working in medicine is a real puzzle. Some people simply aren't cut out for the job. It happens, no need to make others suffer for it. But it's the cluelessness that gets me. Mixed with misplaced confidence, it makes for a potent toxic...

All things we already knew but worth putting it to rest. I would very much like this to be followed by investigation of psychiatric misdiagnosis, which is the obvious reason for so much misleading co-morbidity. This would be very revealing. The vast majority of so-called psychiatric...

That problem will only get worse as we noticed that some clinics are using GET and calling it pacing. I doubt this is entirely new so there's probably a bit of confusion already about exact nomenclature. And some various uses of graded activity, not clear how different it is, adaptive pacing...

Well, if the ongoing attempt to psychologize IBS and fob off people to CBT could be nipped in the bud this would be great. The latest Chalder attempt was particularly pathetic. Interesting that the link is stronger for IBS than IBD, which seems to indicate IBD is a problem in the gut itself...

Prior research by Baraniuk on differences between ME and GWI: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15383-9. Exercise – induced changes in cerebrospinal fluid miRNAs in Gulf War Illness, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and sedentary control subjects