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Good article. :thumbsup: "It’s the first global awareness day for ME..." First?

Last millennium.

While the political class may have been a critical part of how the appalling mess that is ME unfolded, they will also be a critical part of the means for us to get out of it. This is very encouraging development. Big thanks to all in the UK who have lobbied their MPs.

Nor funding bodies, ethics boards, or trial oversight committees. The whole system has had to fail, at least substantially, on a sustained basis, for this appalling mess to come about.

Yep. A solid example of how a bias can thoroughly contaminate every single assumption, inference, extrapolation, and interpretation in an argument. This is what happens when falsification is no longer a methodological requirement. It is impossible for us to prove we are doing it 'right', or at...

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THIS!

Or their surviving relatives will be angry.

This. If you want to find the flaws in your own argument, give it to a competent honest sceptic to tear apart.

The health of people with M.E. is improved via access to our holistic Healthcare Services, Why the word 'holistic' in that statement?

Translation: We don't know what is going on, and don't want to admit it. So here is a word salad with dollops of hand-waving instead. Gee, I can't imagine why that is. Empire building, with prizes for everybody, except patients. Ethical challenges, like why it is okay to con patients into...

And any gains can be lost. We have all seen how the BPS juggernaut, in all its forms, just continues steaming right on, unhindered by any concerns of error or harm.

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I knew somebody who early in adulthood developed extreme RA, to the point where by his early 30s his body was seriously deformed, he suffered constant serious pain, needed full time care, and had his legs amputated because they were useless and just causing him serious problems. Psychosomatic...

I love singing and music. Used to sing in a small a capella group, and solo & accompany others with a guitar. If there is anything I am motivated to do as therapy it is singing and music. But it doesn't work. It is just another thing that makes you sicker the more you try. Trust me, I tried...

Very important thread. This.

There is no 'secondary gain' for ME. It is all major primary and secondary losses.

Done. :thumbup:

That was good, if a little different. Conducting an extended serious interview in a bubble bath is one way to make it hard to forget. :laugh:

That could cut both ways. What is regarded as 'misleading' depends on who has the power to make that call. Good. Though enforcement could be tricky.