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I do believe him when he says this, see no reason to think he'd make this up. But his description is very lacking, and I'd be far more interested in knowing why he couldn't do this when he was director of the NIH institute that is most capable of dealing with this. He could have done 1000x more...

Heh, not likely. Disability is so hard to get and pays so very little that actual fraud motivated by 'laziness', or anything that could be described as such, is so small that they'd actually lose money if everyone was tested for it, because it's just that small. And we're far from the only...

It is part of psychosomatic models to never say they mean psychosomatic. That's why they keep using new labels. They just think we're that dumb, but it's because they can get away by simply writing whatever they want to have happened.

It takes two to swallow an obvious lie: a liar and someone willing to not care how obvious the lie is. At this point I barely blame them, they're being handed praise and awards by their peers. How could they really suspect that they could possibly be wrong given this? They got everything they...

Same thing with the lazy "Long Covid is inflated" editorial. Looks like the SMC doing a push on both here. Meanwhile record sick leave news are being blamed on 'stress' and mental illness. It's really remarkable just how much propaganda there is on medical issues. I knew to some degree but it's...

This is in the Evidence-based Medicine journal of the British Medical Association. Good grief, medicine firmly is in the post-truth era. These 3 ideologues have basically been wrong about the whole thing and here they are, not only writing a "akshually, everyone else is wrong" article, but...

Just for fun, I asked a follow-up question: "Are there incorrect facts in the article? And what evidence supports the assertions made by the authors?"

I decided to ask ChatGPT about this op-ed, and it came up with an interesting answer. See, because officially speaking ME/CFS is described as, and all the evidence supports being, a biomedical illness, just lacking in biomarker and pathophysiology, this editorial proposing the same old ideology...

I'm confused as to what this person is saying, since I've learned not to trust that the words they are using mean whatever they seem to mean, even when they are used in what should be a rather simple fashion. Although, falsification, what an idea. Truly a novel concept, never before tried. In...

Ah, it's a shame so many of us got blocked by Dr Scuba, we can't rate the note as helpful.

LC communities don't seem too concerned about ME/CFS issues unless directly mentioned. For example the recent editorial in the Scandinavian journal is getting a lot of traction because it directly targets LC. So in a perverse way, the quacks wanting to expand to LC will sink them in the end. I...

Too bad we don't have any effective ones. Only had decades, couldn't be bothered to try.

Ah, but have they tried believing that the virus cannot harm them? That's all the rage in medicine these days. You stare the virus straight into its stupid face and tell it: NO! You just have to have gumption, roll up your immune system sleeves and make it stronger. If they avoid sickness, they...

The epidemiology is especially awful. It can begin in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood. Which is basically all there is. When you have to include nonsensical facts like this just to pad up a weak claim, you obviously got nothing. But if you can get away with circular references, then you...

Good old Catch-22 disease. Whatever you do, or don't do, you're at fault.

They're including Long Covid. It's named and used in the main keywords. I'm guessing that's the main reason for this. Not that it makes any sense, but that never bothered them.

Something odd happening with hashtag autocomplete on twitter. It yields no results when searching it, so this is clearly being gamed somehow. #LongCovid does not autocomplete, so this suggests internal suppression by twitter. The autocomplete suggestion is #LongCOVIDdepravity.

It's really worrying that it takes this little effort to get a PhD in psychology. Might explain a lot, actually. But the student isn't to blame here, they were clearly taught so wrong and enabled by professors who can't seem to do any better themselves that they had no chance to begin with. At...

It's also remarkable how they either just don't pay attention to reality, or simply don't care. We've had 3.5 years of Long Covid. It's obvious that most recover early on. But past 6 months, an arbitrary time that was always disputed as important by the patient community, it becomes very rare...