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Predominantly female professions are paid less than predominantly male professions of equal work. This is sexist because women are being paid less than men. That men working in the predominantly female professions are as badly paid as women does not mean that gender is not the basis of the pay...

How about the failure of peer review in medical/science journals as this could take in The problems of subjective measures in open labelled trials Failure to report objective measures used Outcome switching Problems with research definitions of conditions (Oxford criteria, etc) Failure of...

Is this this something we should be investigating here at present or do we let @dave30th run with it and see what happens? I had meant to start looking at the other projects that rely on the same supposed 'ethical approval waiver' as the School Absence study, but am in danger of pushing myself...

We have come to expect this research misconduct from the BPS cult members, and I had assumed a contributory factor is the fundamental disrespect they seem to have for people with ME both in relation to their theories and in practice, however is it more wide spread than this? Increasingly we are...

The final article in @dave30th 's list of the eleven studies currently suspected of inappropriately avoiding the ethical approval process was submitted for publication in March of this year and actually published less than four weeks ago. I am not reliable with dates or time, but this is surely...

I wonder if behind what he is saying is the nice ameniable patients that let us call their condition whatever we want and do what we tell them have a genuine condition, but those patient insisting they have a biomedical condition and reject our advice are 'wrong uns' that are making things up...

Thank you @Michiel Tack for all the work you are doing in collating this important information.

Has anyone attempted to systematically look at the condition or conditions triggered by mould? It seems to be there are a range of possibilities in how it may relate to ME: mould exacerbates pre existing ME, so it does not cause ME but does make the symptoms worse (avoiding mould would lessen...

If I remember my undergraduate anatomy correctly the vagus nerve connects to the external ear canal and to the stomach, so perhaps sticking our fingers in our ears and wiggling them about or even eating a large meal could be seen as stimulating the vagus. Even if singing in the shower does aid...

You are probably correct @Trish, though it is hard to believe that someone is so unaware. The fact that he deleted the tweet at least indicates he is aware that it makes him look bad even if he has no understanding why.

At least Sharpe retracted the tweet, and, albeit with some ill grace, attempted an apology. Perhaps even he is becoming aware of some of the internal inconsistencies in what he says, and perhaps even a little embarrassed when confronted by the realities of life for activists like Alem Matthees...

@Brian Hughes, I am reading 'Psychology in Crisis' with great interest. It is the first book I hope to finish for a number of years. Brain fog means difficulty in integrating information over longer sections of text, so each chapter has to be reread several times. Currently about a month in and...

Yes looks very interesting, so I have ordered it, though reading whole books is hard going. I am still working through Brian Hughes' excellent book "Psychology in Crisis".

The references relating to GP training and to service delivery, as well as encouraging GPs to think of psychiatric diagnoses as a first not a last resort, repeatedly stress approaches designed to keep the patient on board through feeling valued and understood, but are intended to placate and...

Presumably at present there is no record kept of diagnoses of MUS as a perceived coherent psychiatric syndrome that are subsequently demonstrated to be incorrect, so we have no idea how often such a diagnosis delays the accurate diagnosis of serious and potentially treatable medical conditions...

Here is another quote from 'Implementing a psychotherapy service': What a nightmare, no wonder the clinicians this group work with find themselves getting distressed and stressed.

Here is yet another one: "the more investigations and referrals they receive, the more difficult it becomes to help them" from Implementing a psychotherapy service for MUS in a primary care setting https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5742798/ which cites Barsky A.J. Hypochondriasis...

This whole MUS edifice is so depressing, most of the GP training seems designed to encourage ignoring the patient's symptoms whilst appearing to be empathetic, and it is largely based on the very shaky foundations of CBT and GET research eg 'Addressing the needs of patients with Medically...

Several of the references suggest basic blood tests be used so that these can be used by the doctor in explaining that there are no underlying medical conditions (see Burton 'ABC of medically unexplained symptoms') but the implicit suggestion seems to be that further tests and referral to non...

Here is a clear statement in the 'Guidance for health professionals on medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)' Royal College of Psychiatrists, which states "Investigation causes significant iatrogenic harm" see https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/CHECKED MUS Guidance_A4_4pp_6.pdf It has a reference...