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Their "masks don't work" review, however, very popular in conspiracy crowds. I keep seeing it used as "definitive evidence", despite Cochrane actually coming out to do damage control and insist it doesn't mean that. People who would otherwise never trust anything out of Cochrane...

Hmmm... given the wording, I wonder if this actually falls under the rules here. They're not marketing this as a treatment for ME, they're marketing this as a training program for, uh, practitioners, I guess, to enable their clients to "enable recovery success" from ME. The clients aren't...

Ayup. There is some muscle mass loss, but it's only anything extra from the base mass, what is gain from using and growing them. When flexing, it doesn't seem any less than it was. I've lost a lot of weight in recent months so they are especially easy to see, still as well-defined as ever. The...

The before and after comparison is much more valuable than this, as unfortunately, there is no guarantee that this means anything. It's really as if medicine is unable to accept what asymptomatic infections mean, what they imply and especially how the policy of mass reinfections basically...

The paper. Synthetically glycosylated antigens for the antigen-specific suppression of established immune responses https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-023-01086-2 Inducing antigen-specific tolerance during an established immune response typically requires non-specific immunosuppressive...

Wow, this would be incredible if it works. "All" it would take is to identify which antigens are being marked for attack and simply deactivate. Still leaves a lot of work but this could be revolutionary, make autoimmune diseases treatable, even curable.

Not even a word from Bastian makes her whole involvement, or lack thereof, seem even worse. She is the face of this now, she is supposed to be independent from Cochrane. Cochrane has a lot to deal with here, they will consult with their lawyers and no doubt do a lot of coordination with the very...

Ah yeah that's what I meant. Poorly phrased, just about what he meant by "more". And for what it's worth: Should probably assume that this means through the EU, as there is a proposal for major funding and Germany is the biggest player in the EU.

The NIH are highlighting this paper on their News & events. Protein may be linked to exercise intolerance in ME/CFS https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/protein-may-be-linked-exercise-intolerance-me-cfs At a Glance A study suggested that high levels of a protein may reduce...

I think those are related, in that 15M Euros have been made available, and Lauterbach wants 60M more:

BMJ: What happens inside a long covid clinic? https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1791 7 September 2023 Shows how there has been zero progress, despite us having been right all along. At least some are moving away from the reconditioning model, advising pacing with the caveat that it's not...

Maybe it was poison. Maybe it wasn't. You can get doctors to know about things like LC, but you can't really make them understand it. "Up to 6 months", for which of course there are plenty of claims as such, from eminent sources. What a joke. And apparently they did joke around, until they...

Drug trials have different requirements than behavioral stuff. In that they have actual requirements. And standards. And some accountability. Because rich people's money is involved. It's easy to see why there are strong incentives not to report them, given the drop on their stock price...

cost-effective lack of accessible treatment Hmm. I don't think they gave this one much thought. Are they imagining that if they could devise treatments they would be cost-effective? That's just imagination. Like if wishes had wings, we could fly, presumably cost-effectively. Or are they...

They certainly increase the risk of being labeled as such. That is correct. Especially given how bigotry and prejudice intersect, and those are issues featuring both by the boatload. But that is not the same thing at all, what with there being no test for it, and applying a diagnostic process...

Twitter thread on a FDA stakeholder meeting on Long Covid:

Threads, the Twitter alternative made by Facebook/Meta, is censoring several terms related to Covid. It appears to include words related to illness, as well as Covid, which would naturally include Long Covid. Searching for those simply comes off as "no results". It appears to be a general...

Letter to the editor: What Long COVID Prevention Strategies Suggest About Its Pathophysiology https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofad466/7264811?login=false Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz, Howard Hu, Jeffrey D Klausner Our hypothesis is analogous to the setpoint hypothesis in...

Almost nothing that they propose is feasible to put through randomized trials, since they are never conclusive, simply do not allow for competent evaluations. They are basically dozens and dozens of small adaptations, which feature such doozies as "sitting, rather than standing", which when...

Meh. The entire model is completely outdated. Journals aren't even needed, they add no value, and it's clear that the approach of peer review before publication doesn't work, plenty of invalid stuff makes it through and it's mostly treated as a "it's published, can't be any flaws in it, lalala...