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That he was invited at all as a speaker is problematic in itself, but as keynote? Good grief.

Basically the Swedish strategy in a nutshell: And the number of public health officers and other officials who have said that they'd also follow that strategy in the future says a lot about where public health is heading. Just like in evidence-based medicine, they pursued a race to the bottom...

Booooooring Yeah, you don't say? Maybe stop making stuff up to fuel the wrong side of a battle that doesn't even need to happen and has only caused massive suffering? Also, taking from the Oxford dictionary: Please stop misusing words. Nothing these quacks say or do has anything to do with...

Especially that you can't rehabilitate brain atrophy. At least not without changing the definition of rehabilitation, which I guess is where things have been headed for a while. It's all about marking people as no longer being impaired, so that you can be severely disabled, just not recognized...

They seem to be using stress where either exertion or strain would make more sense. Pretty much 99% of the time when stress is used in a medical setting, it would be better replaced with exertion, and here is no exception. I used strain above in the sense of burden, mostly because I've been...

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The stigma will continue until a questionnaire makes it appear as if morale improves, then... more stigma. Ridiculous. They reject the answer and keep making up the same one.

That is just pure nonsense. And obviously false. All this shows is that the so-called experts here have no clue what they are talking about, cannot tell the difference between illness and mental health. Which makes the whole claim to expertise likely a sham. It likely means that almost all...

Yeah, and we've seen it in action with the exercise review. Well, not "seen" so much as witnessed its complete absence. But apparently they claim it exists. Somewhere. On the 3rd moon of Saturn, perhaps.

That expects a lot out of NICE. They may have done right thing once, but it's likely more because there were people present who did not allow the whole thing to be biased. I'm not entirely sure this is a mistake they will allow to happen again. There's a good chance for a good response from NICE...

And Crawley, unless I'm mistaken. Even though she is still doing the same things. But given her work with Ladhani on CloCK, who was an author of a recent analysis trying to downplay Long Covid as non-existent, it's not really any different. But her absence here is still notable.

It truly is the old shamanism. It's something super simple, as simple as a dance, but you have to know the exact right way to do it, and only a trained master can show it to you. For a price. But all it takes to become a trained master is a week-end course. Or something like that.

It's a fair assumption, but given any random MD from the UK, what is the probability they'd give the same advice? Now make it one likely to advise a Conservative PM who badly wanted to ignore an ongoing pandemic and its consequences? Not likely to be anywhere below 90%. Wessely did a lot of...

Damn. There's bad, and then there's "90% worse outcome" level of bad. Not just useless, but actively harmful leading to worse outcomes than nothing at all. While they insist it's a complete cure and if you aren't better then it's your fault for lacking motivation, or having negative beliefs...

Symptom-defined? As opposed to... what? By definition syndromes have to be symptom-defined, since this is, you know, the damn definition of what a syndrome is. This is like when people try to dismiss symptoms as being patient-reported, the very definition of what symptoms are. It's always...

JNNP initially published only one letter, and it was the only one written by a MD who doesn't have ME. Although they didn't publish the one by the group of MDs with ME. They haven't even replied to my request to explain why mine is censored. I think they'll publish this one as a normal letter...

They bought the flavor-aid years ago. You can't return the flavor-aid. If there's one thing we've seen in recent years, and sadly it's just as true in academia, it's that admitting a mistake is worse than a lifetime of failures. Only then there are consequences, so the lesson is to just never...

Using a 12 foot ladder?

Never have to provide any evidence. Never have to face accountability for being wrong. Never any liability for massive harm done. Just move on to other stuff and repeat the exact same thing. The perfect failure loop. Seriously this is literally the absolute perfect way to fail. It's not...

Unfortunately, according to experts in so-called evidence-based medicine, he just wasn't motivated enough to get over his anxieties and recover from the sick role to make millions of dollar. Or whatever it is they tell themselves. Ex-Canuck Brandon Sutter retires after long-COVID comeback...