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And that's why none of this will ever work. This is too much bias. They define success not as doing a proper trial giving an accurate conclusion, but as proving themselves right. Same as it ever is and will be until this madness is stopped. This has been tried hundreds of times for decades and...

This: Is as pathetic as this: At this point I think Facebook had already spent $10B on their metaverse, and it still looked 100x more promising than everything the rotten psychosomatic ideology has produced, combined, despite looking less impressive than a college project.

It doesn't. This is where it stops: it doesn't work. Stop it with the bullshit and the lying. And you are still completely out of depth, achieving nothing and lying and bullshitting the whole way. They seem completely incapable of learning on their own.

Ah, no one believes that. It's explicitly asserted in the literature that this is also a convenient lie. No one who promotes psychosomatic ideology or FND in particular believes it's a medical diagnosis. They mean psychological and pretending otherwise is part of the Big Lie. When they say...

It's things like this that make it clear they will never fix things on their own. That even when they're wrong, even when they admit they got it wrong and we got it right, they're still right and refuse to change anything. There was no reasoning involved. None. You explicitly confused...

Just in case you're interested in what happened to them, too: @dave30th. I can't find any information about the sale price, there's only ever a mention of how Mahana (more like MAHAna, amirite?) somehow raised $80M in venture capital funding before having to either sell or fold.

I see it so often and I don't know if I'm in a minority but none of what happened to me has ever caused me to doubt myself, how what was happening to me was obviously a serious medical problem. I've always interpreted this as medicine failing me. I'm generally confident in myself but not overly...

I have no idea how assertions like this pass peer review. This is the kind of stuff that makes a complete mockery of a core process of academia.

Comparison of Digitally Delivered Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy Program With an Active Control for Irritable Bowel Syndrome https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38940439/ Ellen J Anderson, Simone L Peters, Peter R Gibson, Emma P Halmos Abstract Introduction: Gut-directed hypnotherapy (GDH) treats...

I can't find a better thread for this. I got curious today about what happened to this company, and after almost going bankrupt, parts of it were sold in May of this year to a similar company called Nerva, which claims to do "Gut directed hypnotherapy & CBT for IBS" and seems much bigger, or so...

It would really be a useful exercise to have someone go through this methodically, expose how transparently absurd it all is. We are long past the point at which this not only checks all the boxes of pseudoscience and fraud, and it's starting to look more like cartels and extremely corrupt...

Bit random but I find it's relevant to this issue. Today I saw a pre-print of a paper in which the abstract asserted that LC patients want non-pharmaceutical treatments. Not all, but some do. It was a discussion with patients about issues living with LC, expectations and what they want. And...

Ultimately, reading the excerpts so far makes me think of a biopsychosocial approach without acknowledging it. Which is all very biopsychosocial. It is dishonest, the same old dishonesty that has destroyed millions of lives and will continue to do so until it's stopped. "Let's do the same thing...

It's also exactly what every biopsychosocial promoter would argue they have always done. Because the model is fundamentally dishonest, and as such creates additional problems in that trying to solve this problem becomes impossible because every possible way of doing it ends up being co-opted for...

I literally never want to hear a single thing about this whiny nonsense and I have zero sympathy for it because none of this is anything "compelled by a biomedical model" or anything like that. It's an extremist choice that pretends that they have all the answers when everyone who pretends knows...

Heh. Most areas of deep intergalactic space have far more stuff in them.

Gets flu Days pass Puts potato in socks at night to treat ongoing flu-that-won't-go-away More days pass No longer has flu Sock potato works!

Not even science, this junk is straight up textbook pseudoscience. But the problem is that this junk is popular. It's not even them. The people who work on this are fully interchangeable, if they had never existed and other people had been involved nothing would be different. It takes every...

I can't have any other reaction but laugh at the idea that they actually use significant digits on % while evaluating... whatever the hell this is. How any of this is taken seriously is something people will bash their heads on walls for centuries. As if any of those numbers are any more real...

It, did not, though. Literally none of this is novel, it's the same old generic nonsense, it's also mostly downstream, irrelevant, or plain weird. Symptoms are associated with... symptoms? Wow, such insight. This medical astrology stuff is so damn weird. Distress is a preferred but invalid...