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The fact that it has been a default explanation for several decades affecting tens of millions really puts a dent in that claim. It's true that it's absurd that no one really takes it seriously despite this. Which must be very confusing for people who believe in it. It's in widespread use as...

If I remember correctly, the IOM report happened because of the HHS advisory committee that was disbanded somewhere around, what, 2018?, for having served its purpose (of not doing anything, I guess). So without that advisory committee, there is probably no mechanism to make people do their job...

Basing from the tone of discussion of not just Gerada but others, the objective seems to be that patient complaints are awful and unnecessary and basically need to stop happening entirely. There's something weird about many comments saying the GMC does not support physician during complaints...

There are many long haulers who had a period of, I guess remission would be more accurate, between the initial acute illness and the PVFS type symptoms, but some were ill the whole time with no respite so there is really no basis to say that they recovered from the acute illness, unless we...

Oh, FFS. :facepalm: And of course like the vast majority of complaints it was dismissed, so that's basically textbook excessive worry over an unlikely event that carries little if any real consequences, because like everything it's all projection. I have no idea what is the purpose of this...

This is just bizarre, the whole concept exists mainly in psychiatry and would have been forgotten along with phrenology as a weird artifact of the past without psychiatry holding an obsession that has lasted for well over 150 years. And "largely ignored"? I mean there are only so many things...

I don't understand why such statements make it through peer review on a scientific paper. In an editorial? Whatever, sure. This is wishful thinking without basis, in fact it has been thoroughly debunked, affirming that a specific outcome must be true for no reason whatsoever. There is not a...

If there's anything to debate here it's this. How can anyone have any confidence in medicine when some of the leading medical authorities are clearly delusional and promoting blatant pseudoscience? How can they be trusted to make decisions when they show impaired judgment? None of this is...

This is your brain when you think people are "doing" a disease, it can make you think smoking is just the same thing as being ill. Obviously the correct answer is the latter either way since we know that motivation is not enough, but the profound disrespect mixed in with the hubris and arrogance...

Which may explain the shock of researchers in the field and the ridiculous level of media coverage they are pushing. This bias is everything, without it there is nothing. Not surprisingly, as this is exactly what they think is the problem and therefore seek to influence, they just know they...

The sheer amount of press this failed study is getting is seriously absurd. Especially ridiculous given there have literally been hundreds of such experiments already done. It's cult-like obsession. Though it's good to hear the right side in this debate, as long as this remains a debatable...

He probably means breathing exercises, for which the evidence also looks weak but it's big business so it must business on. It's a big problem to use such a generic term, it can be used to apply to anything from light stretching all the way to military drill school. Zero nuance or specificity in...

Would she say the same of alternative medicine? Because the same can be said. The only difference is belief in the magical powers of the mind, that something must work. The only reason people hold on to that belief is that although every experiment has failed to meet any primary objective, there...

That's exactly the kind of attitude that keeps them oblivious to it. Just like the bystander phone effect, everyone is out there saying "someone should do something" and they go right back to doing nothing, or sometimes angrily defend a broken status quo that lead us there, or just hustle at the...

EBM folk everywhere: hold my beer and excuses.

Honestly at this point just go straight with Amazon's "wellness booths" and be done with it. This is completely beyond parody, it just cheapens everything to a damn tchotchke.

How about science illiteracy? People are frankly too generous here, this is a long-standing problem that has always plagued research of all types. This is just one of the last remaining space where science illiteracy is encouraged and promoted but it's the same: researchers who want to prove...

GET was always sold as being individualized. Not true but they've been saying this for decades. But it's not as if any of this matters, they can say something for decades, pretend otherwise and nobody cares. Which is why they can lie and fail for decades. Of all the failures, the simple...

Just one example but I'm seeing a lot of agreement from long haulers that post-exertional symptom exacerbation is a preferable term. Even in those who are not quite aware of the context and history of PEM. So, easy to argue this is an acknowledged improvement. Now if only they could understand...

That's like asking Uri Geller to use spoons he didn't bring himself. Not gonna happen, they know the illusion doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.