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All only possible because of the mental health exclusion. You know, since they can't tell if you're faking mental illness. Or what mental illness even is, or how to define it other than its more superficial outward behavioral features. And have gotten this algorithm wrong literally millions of...

WTH did I just read? This is genuinely QAnon level of holy crap.

But psychiatry has totally moved on from Freud, uh? Totally.

Literally the #2 complaint I see in long haulers on the issue of psychologizing LC, right after all the gaslighting and harmful psychologizing, is how they cannot get any help for mental health exactly because of all the gaslighting and decades of failure psychologizing chronic illness. They...

2 posts moved from the long covid in the media and social media thread. Not that the NIH is an arbiter of this, but they are likely using a conservative estimate so this gives a pretty hard floor.

Can't read most of it but it's pretty self-explanatory: It's seriously unhinged for medicine to actually be comparable to flat Earthers at time, incapable of learning from experience. Completely absurd level of failure.

Yes, people who believe in a thing, accept that thing. Homeopaths commonly accept that homeopathy 'works', to a greater or less extent. This is basically the definition of something being fashionable. Because everything is projection in this ideology, so is the idea of fashionable diagnoses...

Simon Wessely appointed interim executive dean at KCL. Notice that the announcement doesn't contain a single mention of the work he was awarded and knighted for, not a single mention of the things he is most famous for. That's how you know those are real accomplishments to be proud of, when you...

I saw a similar comment from a physician saying something similar but about exercise and lifestyle, that 90%+ of diseases could be avoided if people weren't just stupid. It's the underlying thought process, the magical thinking, that is the problem, however it gets justified is irrelevant, it's...

No one needs more oversight than people who assure you they don't need oversight. Especially people who have made it clear they have always needed all the oversight and for whom lack of oversight has caused them to fail completely at this very issue, which they insist they need no oversight for...

The class action lawsuits were already guaranteed to be huge. They will be so much huger, just straight up gigantic. Just straight up seize all the budgets for psychosomatic medicine for the next century and use it to repair the catastrophic harm they caused, and fire everyone involved, not a...

Posts moved from the Long Covid in the media and social media thread (I think this is a GET study, from what comments suggest) Edit: from the horse's mouth

Getting real hard for medical authorities to criticise Chinese Traditional Medicine at this point, or even any cultural medicine. Or any alternative medicine. Or just about any pseudoscience. The entire basis for what makes alternative medicine problematic is making baseless claims. Baseless...

That's a key missing piece that's almost never discussed. It's emblematic of failure, to simply not have any process, or even interest, in trying to figure out why things failed and how to improve on them. This simply does not exist, the idea is to move on, never hold anyone accountable...

And, frankly, is the main reason sports are impressive. Seeing machines built specifically to accomplish a task? Boring. They literally can't do it differently, unless broken. Human performance is so difficult to achieve, that's what makes it all worth watching. It's so hard to not only attain...

Says it's only an abstract for now so paper should come out later. The idea that not finding evidence of infection in the blood positively means no virus is present is frankly bizarre, especially given common knowledge that many pathogens are latent in almost all humans, even more so that many...

Yeah oddly enough, this would exclude me if it were part of it. I can technically have some limited supplemental income but it's a hassle and I don't know the impact it could have on my disability. It's not worth the trouble. All expenses paid with consideration to the patient's condition is...

It definitely is what Victorians thought. It's also what Simon Wessely said many times, insisted even, actually got awarded for crushing a patient movement protesting against his ideological nonsense. It's basically exactly how he framed it countless times. But it sure is what Victorians...

The motion to research Long Covid has been defeated, the Dutch legislature has decided they do not want their population to know anything about Long Covid, or the government to have any information that may lead them to have to do something about it. Meanwhile, apparently, diseases stop at...

It's precisely existing standards measures to "screen" for fatigue that are broken here. It's more in the form of a screen that pops out from beneath the floor yelling "get out! get out!" until you get the message. I honestly have no idea what they are expecting here, that this isn't done and...