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Sadly one thing these people have in common is an inability to learn from experience, even their own. And a clear pattern of projection, they all seem like heavy catastrophizers and clearly project their own inability to deal with illness onto others. Gerada is the same, these people would not...

Nature journalist.

All evidence I have seen so far suggests GRADE is potentially useful but fully manipulable. In a nutshell: it is not itself a reliable process, it offers no guarantee that the outcome even respects such things as reality and the linear passage of time. Put it in the right hands and it may be...

Two TV reports on the program: It is both encouraging knowing this will inevitably make progress, this is a larger effort than everything up to this day combined and with plenty of room left to spare, but also incredibly insulting, personally but to the tens of millions, likely 100M+...

I think that's the paper he's talking about. Saw him comment on it a few days ago, of course getting every detail wrong and cherry-picking things that the paper doesn't support. As is tradition.

Somehow I doubt this person would justify this logic as a generalizable case, that if it's published it must be true. We have reached meta-cherry-picking: cherry-picking what gets cherry-picked. Especially with the new Cochrane policy of giving a veto to authors over retraction, a veto that is...

Like I said: Assertive opinions have to be justified somehow, even if there is no relation between the assertion and the citation. I assume this line came from Greenhalgh but it's interesting that the author of this patient paper was not even consulted as to whether this actually makes sense...

There is pretty much low quality evidence for anything you can imagine. It's literally what separates things that are real from those that aren't. By creating a standard that is below ground, everything goes: all the pseudosciences and alternative approaches, no matter what the evidence, they...

This is literally made-up of imaginary numbers presented haphazardly without making any sense. It doesn't take into account most of the costs and so literally doesn't do an actual cost-effectiveness. And obviously something that is not effective cannot be cost-effective. It quite literally...

I read this more as "we will make problems for those patients" from someone who intends to make problems to those patients. None of this is serious, reality is too abstract to these people, they are moving pieces on a board without any understanding that those represent lives like their own...

My assumption is this is what's happening behind the scenes.

It's good, except complete naive that it is a common problem, certainly no need to go back a full century to look for examples, which says a lot. Medicine has completely dismissed and trivialized brain fog, psychologizing it as usual, and now some of the very people who would gaslight it have...

Carson is mostly talking nonsense in this thread but I think this may be a hint into the process that is taking place behind closed doors: requiring PEM is "making up a new definition" and thus the process is invalid. Without the context of the pandemic this may have worked, nobody knew or...

Inside 'post-Covid' clinics: How specialized centers are trying to treat long-haulers https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/inside-post-covid-clinics-how-specialized-centers-are-trying-treat-n1258879 In case anyone is still somewhat envious of the attention long haulers are getting...

One inescapable conclusion from the systematic pattern of arguing that there may be a relation (and that relation must be causal and in the preferred direction no matter how many straws have to be grasped to pretend this is a serious argument) no matter what to every null result is an admission...

From the various people showing increasingly shrill panic, I think the biggest implication here is not what this means for treatment for ME but the snowball effect this could have in EBM. Because let's be frank here EBM has revealed itself to be a completely incapable process, one that produces...

Like a stuck record spinning round round. Without Marshall's team peptic ulcers would still be stuck in the psychosomatic void of failure, saying the exact same things as this nonsense here, exact same as the old nonsense there:

What I read from this is a frank admission that doctors do not understand the experience of illness until they personally experience it and I don't understand how it's not considered alarming because it's true and probably the main reason why medicine makes so little progress. I also see no...

The cited paper does not support this ignorant statement in any way, it's itself very speculative and a position paper on LC from people unfamiliar with ME who claim no such expertise. Might as well have made a reference to google.com for all that the citation supports it. Which makes it all the...