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Uh, well, they can be. They can also be the exact opposite. I guess they must strictly mean pharmaceutical trials because the whole mass of biopsychosocial trials has not actually discovered a single damn useful thing and is in fact getting worse over time. Because of course for trials to...

I guess it's an approach. Looking at the exercise program, it's a pretty normal exercise routine that healthy people can see significant improvements on, as long as they have slightly above average level of fitness to begin with. It actually takes pretty good fitness and a lot of energy to even...

It's not a perception that can be fully controlled or managed, but it seems that there is a huge problem with how people understand "pre-existing conditions" as basically "were going to die soon anyway", rather than literally anything that can be diagnosed, including things like relatively...

Presumably this would be because of higher levels of pre-illness fitness? Loss of muscle mass over years of sedentary life is simply a given, and it's distinct from deconditioning.

Physicians have been sold this lie and bought it whole and are sending sick people with PEM and other chronic illnesses that have nothing to do with lack of fitness or a deficit of exercise all the time, so it is good that physios know what to do about it. But unless there is an additional...

I have not seen any evidence for the Goldilocks zone either, where everything about the exercise has to be "just right". It's a common trope, always used as an excuse for why this type of exercise at this intensity level on this schedule and coached this way doesn't help this person, but it's...

Sometimes I wonder if after all this messaging rejoicing the good news of how "only" vulnerable people were dying of COVID has led to most people just assuming that COVID killed everyone who was vulnerable and therefore there aren't any left. Which, ooof. But also years of messaging promoting...

And it's not worth much without pre/post data, as reading speed varies a lot between people. My reading speed is probably half of what it was. My reading comprehension, probably a tenth. I still read faster than most people. Comprehension has definitely dropped well below average, though. I...

Yes, it's important to check Thetan levels with the Thetan measuring machine. Or something like that. So, Thetan levels have nothing to do with anything, then. Or not, it's not as if this is any better than ye olde ink blots in a discussion about someone's mother. I genuinely have no idea who...

They also vary too much over time. I can't even remember another study that bothered to track this, it's always single points in time. The only study that did this was the second Body Politic one, and it showed how those symptom profiles shift and wane massively over the course of the illness...

The one where the bottom goes on top?

I genuinely trust politicians to do the smart thing here more than I trust the medical advisers who would tell them what is the smart thing to do to put it accurately. As long as the smart thing is in the form of "this will save X billions per year", which is a pitch they already got and bought...

There is, but it all comes with the baggage of how programs like this are basically considered "good enough, no need to do more" from decades of being used to justify doing nothing. This context can't be ignored, a program like this can't make up for everything else being broken, and it...

It's not the patients who need education, it's the professionals. The idea of teaching things they don't understand to people who understand it better is completely ridiculous. Most of the rest has nothing to do with education, it's inflexible systems that punish sick people for being sick in a...

It, uh, does not.

This completely misunderstands what sick people place our hopes into. False hope has essentially destroyed the person I used to be, it has caused major trust issues with, frankly, literally all of humanity. However long I live I will always have a default position of distrust for anyone holding...

No one has that kind of power and influence on their own. This is power given, not taken. People choose to throw the patients down his trash chute. They want this, they don't care that none of this works any more than he does, and are just as guilty as he is of spreading propaganda. In most...

Oh yeah well I mean it in the sense of "words have meaning", not the propaganda that co-opts common terms to strip them of that meaning. Do we need health care? Yes. Involving several types of professionals/disciplines? Yup. It's OK, though, nothing bad has ever come out of distorting the...

This is such an odd counterpart to wealth privilege, which is all about gaining access to exclusive things that the general public doesn't have access to. All it takes is to be born in the right family, or some random chance event, and no one will bat an eye, but extending accommodations, which...

We all agree that we need "multidisciplinary care", we just don't agree on anything else, including the disciplines involved and what they would do. Which is literally everything. Might as well pretend that we agree that food is needed while one side wants the food to be edible and on a human...