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Long form article in New York magazine, that is frankly disappointing given its length, and a mere single mention of ME/CFS as a precedent for Long Covid, and only in the context of brain fog. Which, despite what the article says, is not a "medical catch-all" for anything, it's not recognized at...

I hear that so much out of MDs, how they find it frustrating to deal with us because there's nothing they can do to help. Which is really puzzling, since there must be thousands of conditions for which there's nothing they can do to help. Most of those aren't as bad as us, in fact most are...

All of this is a direct consequence of medicine's denial. None of this should be a surprise to anyone, you can't deny major illnesses like this without causing havok. Literally every problem here isn't just medicine's responsibility, buts its creation and perpetuation. But I'm really confused...

Not many threads on Chikungunya, but this could be relevant. And the implications of this strategy are actually pretty significant, as there is no current method to detect cell-to-cell transfer, and we have remained stuck in the old "can't find the virus in the blood = no more virus" paradigm...

It probably made sense from the comfort of a lab and public health models. Reality simply has a way of asserting itself that doesn't care much about those models, how people and politics end up driving everything in the end. No model could have predicted that medicine would end up basically...

Honestly, the Stanford prison experiment wasn't all that bad when you look at what psychology has become. At least just as legitimate. Definitely not the least bit more serious. They might as well try proving that people falling to the ground have always wanted to trip. After having been tripped...

Red blood cells deformation is making a comeback, uh? It's really incredible how almost everything ME/CFS has been replicated with LC. Just not as a unique snowflake that applies to everyone and remains stable in time. A shift as significant as having to use high resolution video where usually a...

And they'll keep saying so anyway. It's been their model from the start, and these people have shown a consistent pattern over decades of not caring one bit about evidence. That's why they started with assumptions devoid of any evidence. Many other awful researchers have started doing the same...

Somehow, it's so bad it actually reminds me of the TV series V, about alien reptiles replacing human beings, and so many humans siding with the alien reptiles. It's a common trope, not just this series. I never thought humans could actually side with a virus, do everything to maximize its...

Many good replies already, but if you can think of any, this could be useful. Davis is a prominent voice in the LC community and has the hear of many researchers.

He has a PhD? WTH? And it's not even a joke university, apparently. Or, I guess maybe it is. His thesis (https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/5221/1/Parker%2CPhil_Thesis.pdf) appears to be on something like the LP, called The Rediscovery Process instead, for substance use disorder. And it is...

They don't have a damn clue what CFS is. They looked at a box that said "fatigue" and looked no further. I don't even get how this happens not just at all, but routinely, in what is supposed to be a serious profession. It's basically the professional version of doing a report on "youth in...

The sub-types are not cleanly separated, though. So they are more like sets of possible outcomes that aren't mutually exclusive. Like how car injuries don't have types of injuries that are mutually exclusive with falling from on high, or sports injuries. The obsession with cleanly separating...

Good point: Somehow I doubt it makes much difference whenever GPs are being sold this BS in some official context where other GPs are gushing over it, but it actually shows just how easily doctors will peddle pseudoscience when they feel like it, and they can get away with it. It can't really...

In a sense, they want delusional thinking, or think that it would work best. They want people suffering from an illness to be in denial about their illness and its impacts. It makes zero sense, and reminds me more of poverty piety in some religion, in trying to glorify destitution as some test...

Assessing the Utility of ChatGPT Throughout the Entire Clinical Workflow: Development and Usability Study https://www.jmir.org/2023/1/e48659 Methods We inputted all 36 published clinical vignettes from the Merck Sharpe & Dohme (MSD) Clinical Manual into ChatGPT and compared its accuracy on...

Aside from being a superficial and mediocre study, published 8 years after it ended, this would then dispute all their claims about behavioral stuff, or whatever. But of course their conclusion is always the same: give us more money so we can waste it doing the same useless nonsense we've been...

They're using "predict" out of correlational data that is mostly arbitrary labeling. They decide to frame this as "all or nothing" or "catastrophizing", it's not a thing in itself. They're simply moralizing out of observations that are banal in themselves. Disabled people have limited energy...

Good example of two wrongs being added up to make a right. Neither are any good, the problem is clearly with how things are evaluated, that they can find that something useless is "superior" to another useless thing, and back again. Without ever thinking that there's anything wrong with using...

I was told that not doing harm was kinda important in medicine... especially that helping a few is not a valid excuse for harming others. Which is clearly happening here, because the system of healthcare is fully self-contained. When those within the system know of harm and do nothing, there is...