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This has really become a growing problem, the overuse of euphemisms and neutral language to describe a system of intentional systemic negligence with its devastating consequences and it comes off drier than a raisin in a dry heat wave. It seems to mostly manage to get the details right, but ends...

By this point we probably crossed the hundred studies like this on LC. Not a single one has found anything useful, not even a single bit of useful information, and it doesn't seem like anyone is bothered by that, they just keep coming, always looking at the same basic data with a slightly...

Actually that's pretty simple: they fill a void, and the void is so vast that at least some people will throw money at anything so the barrier to entry is very low. All which is simply a downstream effect of medicine's almost universal disdain for what they have been taught to think as...

Purely anecdotal but with enough strength to it that, combined with the fact that producing high quality evidence is extremely difficult, it should at least be respected, although it should not be taken as a firm thing, doing the same silly mistake of thinking that such thresholds have firm...

Oh, I don't know, I don't think fraud should be categorized as propaganda. There's lots of fraud, too. So much fraud. Obviously completely unrelated to widespread loss of trust in experts. No, see, it's the TikToks, has to be! It's not as if blending pseudoscience and science could actually...

None of this makes any sense and it's completely circular reasoning. Everything they claim is far better explained by the impact of the illness, with the obvious fact that removing the symptoms would make the "somatization" completely disappear, no matter how much mathemagics they want to throw...

I don't think that's a thing. What's up with the infinite imaginary speculation about finding the perfect kind of rehab, not too hot, not too cold, just perfect? It doesn't even make sense, why would that even produce benefits? "Imagine a world"-based Goldilocks medicine yet again, where the...

Hey that's also their preferred treatment. However given this discipline, PPS being useless as a concept is the point. It means it has zero chance of ending the infinite loop of failure, it makes sure that science is no threat to their belief system, by simply excluding any trace of it.

When medieval alchemists look positively scientific, rational and serious by comparison... This has already been done hundreds of times. This discipline is basically what if someone made an entire discipline out of the equivalent of a school project, always doing basic small project stuff...

LOL, LMAO even. No need for the prompting title to go straight to "oh wow this person has serious issues". Smart young man. I was assigned a psychiatrist for a few months when I was trying to find a GP who would do something, anything, to help me. Saw her maybe 10 times. As soon as I found a...

Something about the mind being so powerful it can cause structural brain alterations. I'm sure they can milk a few years of relevance out of that. Or I guess they'll go with "it's microscopic, not macroscopic"? Or whatever. Here they just assert that CBT can reverse that. Funny how associations...

Well, that did it for me, I cancelled my recurring donation to OMF. I think I gave enough over the years, and frankly the output we have seen out of OMF has been disappointing. Not that anyone else has done any better, but I have no confidence they are the organization to pull this off.

The author of this article cited a study that he claims concluded that airborne transmission is not an issue, framing it as a "potentially worldview-shifting science" that undermines the "COVID zealots". The lead researcher of the study, who was not asked to comment for the article, has posted a...

It's neat but I don't see it as having much real-life value. There is no way to know which infection will lead to long-term illness. This factor is entirely probabilistic and hidden from view. In some very healthy fit people it was the first infection that did it, in people living with multiple...

The strategy of leveraging learned immunity was meant to reduce acute illnesses leading to hospitalizations, but its proponents did not model the long-term consequences of doing so because they simply did not believe in them. So by their own definition of success, they were right, as long as no...

Oh. That makes even less sense, so I don't feel bad about it.

Given the investments and hype for what is generally called "digital therapeutics", there must be someone doing at least some level of financial reporting for investors. But they'd likely be more on the positive for now, at least until all the early projects crash down. Sadly because it's even...

It's pretty notable how their conclusion doesn't even bother with it, they just say "heh, guess it helped, just mumble something about equity or whatever". This trial is the evidence used by a company called Nerva Health, which acquired Mahana, the company that built a similar IBS app based on...

Hell not only do we tell them that all the time, how it's mainly in how it affects how others, including them, treat us that it's harmful, it's even easy to find it in their own literature, where it's systematically dismissed. They keep hearing that most of us don't fall for their transparent...

Hey don't knock sock potato. It has a long tradition of being used, and it can't be patented, so obviously this is all big pharma vs small sock potato and they're just hiding the truth but it's out there, way, way out there. /s Do you mean sock potato? It, uh, might be, but I'm not at liberty...