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This describes no progress whatsoever. It's the same old garbage that has been argued for well over a century. By their own admission, they only rebranded the labels, while changing nothing of the underlying constructs. Again. And again. And yet again! Obviously this does not lead to progress...

Antidepressant users report urgent need for services to assist with withdrawal. https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/psychiatry-through-the-looking-glass/202309/findings-from-a-survey-of-530-british In a survey of British antidepressant users, 70% experienced "severe withdrawal effects"...

What is the point of evaluating health anxiety in a medical setting? I don't think anyone has ever really asked that question. It's simply assumed to be necessary. But what is the expectation, what is to do, if someone actually has health anxiety? That isn't already expected of medical...

Sure thing. It came from this Reddit thread.

Wasn't it in Norway that they (Wyller?) blamed the failure of a CBT trial on some imagined "negative vibes" about it in the press? Or some BS like that? When you allow people to get away with fraud and BS, no surprise, all they can do is optimize for fraud and BS. It's like an entire education...

This is very good. Clear and to the point. Does not mince words in key areas, such as talking about continuing harm, since plenty of harm has already been done. Many thanks to those who signed to this important document. The right side of history is never comfortable, but it is rarely that...

Judging from the references, looks to be cellular stress on nerve cells. They look quite good actually.

Excellent article! I left a comment, I hope the article is widely read. And for sure revanchism is fitting here. The level of bad faith we continue seeing from the people most responsible for this disaster is completely ouf of bounds for any respectable professional. It belongs in politics, and...

Saw this on the LC subreddit and the creator wanted it shared. Not that much patient-created content out there so here is:

This is in Italy, but several of the researchers on the pediatric Long Covid study, ClocK, are open deniers and minimizers of Long Covid. Most MDs don't believe in it, many have been openly dismissive, even mocking of the very concept that COVID is not completely harmless outside of very rare...

Hmm. I'm seeing a few incorrect details here, including of course that not all LC is ME: When speaking of "the US government", it means the executive branch, of which the office of the president is independently in charge. Congress is not "the US government", it is the legislature, and the US...

I've seen several comments and he seems to be raising the overlap quite extensively. Lots of praise for how clear his message is. He has limited ability to do things, ministers aren't all-powerful in parliamentary democracies, but his messaging has been rising along with the reality of just how...

You can bet that they will still be given high grade for randomization, since they will use a pseudorandom number generator after their initial filter. Cookie points for doing wrong. Evidence-based medicine is not a serious paradigm.

Don't remember that one, but I will never forget Simon Wessely addressing this "placebo" in PACE, saying something to the effect of "the placebo is one of the most powerful interventions we have". A placebo is literally a null comparator, comparing something to nothing, and by the definition of...

How is that different from a study of medical astrology that excludes people who don't believe in astrology? It isn't. Obviously. But decades of increasing bias have lead to a normalization of fraudulent behavior like this, so much that any criticism will fall on deaf ears. Medicine believes in...

Hmmm. I wonder if there might be some other factor that healthcare professionals are exposed to more than the average person and may explain this. Especially nurses, as this sample obviously massively skews toward. Some kind of factor in their workplace, one that causes acute illnesses, spreads...

"You're not fatigued, you just think you are". Yeah, no one ever thought of that before. This is just high-level genius. For sure this is not already a very common belief, dating back beyond a century. Nope, this is brand-new novel insight right here. Preliminary stuff, needs decades of...

The ease with which this complete nonsense was accepted as valid is terrifying. I don't think anyone could actually point to any credible evidence, or even explain what it means, and yet it's basically accepted as a solid fact. Only using muscles at the top? What even is this foolishness? I...

This is an impressively biased study. Completely unserious. They paid no attention to what has been happening from the start. Did a quick search for confirming evidence, and found few? I'm not sure how that's possible, there has already been a significant number of such studies. All poorly done...

The denominator is the whole population. Even 1% of the whole population is a huge amount of people. For the whole civilization, it's almost 100M people. 100M is a whole freaking lot of sick people. No one could pretend they didn't understand this when they encouraged the whole population to be...