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Note that for many years the NIH has had specific program announcements for ME/CFS research, e.g. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-246.html Perhaps in time people will be able to highlight what is the same, and what is different.

Well I think if people are told that there is a lack of researchers and this is likely at least partly due to a lack of private money, it could change attitudes. At the moment, when someone says there is a shortage of applications, this seems to often be portrayed as either a lie or all down to...

Yes, of course, two illnesses could have the same approval rate, but the pool of applications for one could be better than the other. The point I was replying to was saying that a 15% approval rate was incompatible with progress and so unfair; my point was that that's the average other illnesses...

Why assume that ME/CFS grants are better than those for other conditions? That's wishful thinking. They could just as likely be worse than better. There doesn't have to be miracle. We just need to do what other conditions that are successful at getting funding generally do: try to support as...

Free full text: https://journals.lww.com/ctg/fulltext/2020/03000/increased_ileal_immunoglobulin_a_production_and.6.aspx

A 15% grant approval rate is what other illnesses get too. The solution to me is to have enough private funding to attract new researchers and hold on to the ones we have, rather than pretend a 15% grant rate is unfair.

I understand her passion but this doesn’t prove the statement is disingenuous. For example, only something like 14-16% of applications generally get passed so only around 1 in 6 or 1 in 7. The data I have seen in recent years does show the number of applications is low. This doesn’t seem to be...

Free full text: https://www.survivingmold.com/Downloads/Dooley-McMahon_Final_Publication_-_3-30-2020.pdf

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Like others have alluded to, women with ME/CFS have many of the same experiences as men. To have a better idea what, if any, gender differences there are, mixed samples would be better. Though with in-depth qualitative research, sample sizes can be quite small, so questionnaires might be...

Seems reasonable

Remember that So that is one of the things fathers are supposedly doing through involvement with youth sports!

It's interesting to me that they explicitly mention the approach "adopts the philosophy of ' scholarly activism'" which many academics might try to avoid.

I'm not convinced those are the only 4 masculine statuses. With regard to the data from this study (i.e. the Analysis & Discussion and Evaluation sections), "hegemonic" is mentioned 6 times while "complicit" and "subordinated" are not mentioned at all; "marginalized" is mentioned twice ["he is...

Where they attempt to summarise the existing evidence with regard to men: The bolded bit contains quite bold statements. I've no idea whether the papers referenced justify such claims, I suspect the evidence isn't strong, if it exists at all.

I've no problem with the following:

It's a generally sympathetic article. It doesn't include anything that resembled CBT or graded exercise therapy approaches or ideologies. I did find quite a bit of discussion of masculinities frustrating as I will elaborate below.

https://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/17973 Full copy of article pre-publication (55.15Kb) https://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2086/17973/Wilde%2c%20Quincey%20%26%20Williamson_Final%20copy_Accepted%2030-04-2019.docx?sequence=2&isAllowed=y This version doesn't include the photographs.