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How do these idiots get anyone to take them seriously? How does the NHS appoint Hilly Raphael Quigley as the clinical lead of Oxfordshire CFS services, despite that she has no apparent qualifications, beyond taking a transdisciplinary "Social Sculpture" course where artistic bullshit gets...

It's a common type of behavior in many fields, though less common and more repugnant in medicine. Basically there are people who are very good at social climbing, networking, etc. They usually aren't particularly good (or bad) at their actual job, but it doesn't matter because they know that...

The study is at http://sci-hub.io/10.1089/152460902753473471 and isn't very convincing. 20 of the 58 women dropped out, 5 of them specifically due to GI effects caused by the prunes. The controlling of the diet was pretty poor as well, since the apple control group dropped their intake of...

I don't think it's about the gender of the author, so much as the exploitation of gender to sell something to a specific audience. E.g., the "gift-giving" pyramid scheme that's been popular on Facebook around Christmas time, dressed up as woman-power sisterhood to conceal the greed, inequity...

PEM specifically requires some form of exertion to trigger it. PEM isn't triggered by rest or inactivity, since it wouldn't be post-exertional in that case. There are also some diseases where similar symptoms are caused by circulatory problems, thus improved with regular activity.

Whoops, we were referring to droxidopa while neglecting to name it :-P I thought that was one you'd considered trying at some point via a certain program/trial, but couldn't due to the dosing being inflexible.

Drugs which can raise blood pressure are very tricky. Too much, and it can be absolute hell (and even dangerous).

I think there were some people who refused to even start on it with the restrictions on dosages. There was someone on PR discussing it - maybe @Gingergrrl ?

A combination of supplements and a stimulant, from what I recall. Phase 1 showed it has no effect. I think this is the one where they were demanding very specific and rigid dosages. People couldn't start with a smaller dose, or adjust to a smaller dose, etc, if the mandated dose was too high...

Diabetes can also occur due to mitochondrial disease. My fasting blood sugar is always higher when I've over-exerted recently.

Currently my monitor sits on the (large) tower case in front of the extension on an L-shaped couch where I can sit with my feet up. Sometimes we bump it a bit, but it's pretty stable, though definitely needs to be out of the way of regular traffic. The tower itself is completely stable, so...

That would require them to acknowledge that PEM exists. I don't think they've even said the name of that symptom.

The short answer would be that criticism is allowed by the forum rules. The slightly longer answer would be that such criticism shouldn't derail a thread which has a different focus. So in many cases it might be more appropriate to start a separate thread to discuss criticism if it isn't...

Yes, because she described the threats she did receive in the same article that published the mock-up she keeps trotting out, and the worst was "you will all pay". If the same purported threat was both phoned to Wessely and emailed to her, surely that would have been mentioned in the article.

No, the text of the article indicates the only mention of balls was in a puported phone call to Wessely. The only threat Crawley claimed to receive in that article is an email saying "you will all pay."

The article itself (paywalled) claims that the ball-cutting threat was made to Simon Wessely via a phone call. Presumably it wasn't recorded and we just have to take his word for that. But it certainly wasn't an email sent to Esther Crawley. The parts which do involve Crawley: Full text of...

This would be more interesting if it followed exertion or similar. I'm not sure we'd have much variation sitting around on an average day. A more in-depth article which appears to be about the same study is at https://meaustralia.net/2016/08/14/meet-the-scientists-dr-michael-musker/ Patient...

Ikea has some two-part "4 seasons" duvets which snap together. But either their UK site is complete shite and fails to mention that they can be part of a two-part set, or they don't offer two-part duvets there and have them as a thin or superthick version instead. Normal version...

Full text of the letter is at http://sci-hub.io/10.1073/pnas.1714011114 . Basically, they claim that they screwed up in the past and later decided their results weren't significant after all. I think this might be the same group who published a "nothing to see here" biomedical paper recently...