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Honestly anyone who watches even a bit of sport is well aware of how random performance can be. Some professional athletes can go on weeks' or months' long streaks of high performance, then drop down to barely contributing. The reasons for that are numerous, often small injuries that take that...

That says a lot. I remember some days ago there was some BPS ideologue ranting on Twitter about how to us patients biomedical progress amounts to "breakthroughs" while making progress from a BPS perspective is junk. And by their own admission: results where the primary outcome failed are...

It's pretty wild that when you think of it, they are making the exact same mistake twice. They are looking at sick people whose health issues are discriminated and where all available support is withheld on purpose, and cannot reason why this is happening, cannot possibly imagine that neglecting...

I'm not sure trying to decipher anything from this works any better than reading entrails. It's pretty clear that this trial formula yields completely unreliable results where the interpretation does at least 99% of the work. It's just fuzzy maths corralling guesstimates into the expected shape...

The usual condescension from one of the arsonists who soooo honestly wants to understand how to make the patients live with the fire they lit. Soooo compassionate. It doesn't need any special treatment, all it needs is to be properly medicalized, to make up for charlatans like Chew-Graham who...

Especially with the M1 chip, Macs are really great for noise level, strong recommend. Not for me though, too much trouble switching OS, but for noise they are great. But the price of upgrades, though... ouch. The base Mac mini model is one of the best deals out there, but they charge 3-4x for...

Opening with a blatant lie. Of course. Typical. None of those trials are controlled, of course. They are randomized clinical trials, somehow the continued use of RCT, which usually implies controlled, possibly distorted their thinking enough they don't even think twice about repeating a lie...

Every time I see the general argument of "the mind can X", I can only think of the fact that the Moon can fall on the Earth. It definitely won't because of its orbital alignment and mechanics, but if it had a different orbital alignment, it could, which means it can, it is feasible, possible. If...

Not 100% sure about this guy, he got many things wrong at first, but seems to be learning. It's known that his son had(still has?) LC, so good chances it's first-hand experience with the consequences. But he is influential, former White House adviser and ex-administrator for Medicaid, the...

In case anyone is wondering whether he may have influenced how the UK government handled the pandemic, it certainly appears so, and ongoing. It would be very important to have access what was said on the issue of Long Covid, how his advice over "mass hysteria" and "cultural illnesses" may have...

The continued denial and misrepresentation of Long Covid is just another chapter in a long line of suffering and neglect, and it looks just the same. The same suffering, the same patterns, the same disrespect. Thread with many replies from pwLC (and some pwME) of where they are, of what the...

This website appears dedicated to people with sleeping disorders, who face the same issues of trying to eliminate noise sources so that when they finally manage to fall asleep, they won't be woken up: https://www.snoringsource.com/soundproofing/.

I have been furiously looking for a completely silent PC for a long time, so will report once I find something that fits the bill. Fanless PCs are the holy grail but there are good options coming out lately that use large heatsinks and fans. With fans size is everything, cheap small fans turn...

As we know, Olympic and professional athletes, famous for: Being lazy Lacking self-efficacy and motivation Having crippling fears of: activity, standing, success Being women (hey at least they got that part half right) Giving up easily Catastrophizing about normal bodily senses, especially...

I just found out about SilenceWiki. Because of course there is a wiki for silence. It also has guides that look pretty comprehensive. https://silencewiki.com/ This one is especially difficult, a silent PC: https://silencewiki.com/reviews/quiet-pc-case/. It's all about moving parts. With SSDs...

I really like Nath. I think he's the right person in the right place. I'd really like to know why he's blocked from actually doing anything about it. What the hell is happening behind the scenes to create this impossible gridlock?

Well this isn't true. Most didn't expect it, even though they clearly should have, making this a clear failure of expertise. Some did, mostly based on other coronaviruses, as this seems to be a feature of the family. But especially so, the strategy of maximum infections is guaranteed to lead to...

Well that's awkward given another paper discussed today about somatic symptoms disorder where they explicitly claim that this kind of fluctuation is a clear positive sign of somatization, even when there is an identifiable cause. Well, it would be awkward if people cared about consistency. The...

When a known mafioso sits at a table and everyone greets them warmly, it may not be a group of mafiosos, but it's definitely a group that is comfortable with mafiosos. I'm definitely not comparing the researchers to mafiosos, but when scientists choose to work in cooperation with people who...