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Fascinating look into the inner world of reactionary politics, the Brownstone institute is a libertarian "think tank" (i.e. opinion-havers paid by rich people) that has been hostile to any pandemic measures, ideologically aligned with the Great Barrington declaration, and how it strongly...

The STAR*D Scandal: Scientific Misconduct on a Grand Scale https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/09/the-stard-scandal-scientific-misconduct-on-a-grand-scale/ That happened to be the same year that psychologist Ed Pigott and colleagues published their deconstruction of the STAR*D trial. Pigott had...

On this, there really needs to be more attention paid to Barry Marshall's work. He won a Nobel prize for showing that most peptic ulcers are caused by H. Pylori, but has continued his research since and found that most people carry it, and in fact that some people who don't carry it at all have...

Only loosely Long Covid, although it does mention it. But I never could have imagined the extent of propaganda and mass beliefs could attain such absurd heights like this in, of all places, medicine. This is genuinely fall of civilization stuff. It does mention COVID, but somehow still decides...

ME being classified as a neurological condition will be news to 99% of neurologists. Oof. Skimming through, overall this is a very bad look for neurology. Their general lack of understanding makes their obsession with psychosomatics, on the basis that if they don't know it it must be fake...

That's what allows them to get away with it. It's the "non-specific" thing, where anything that isn't a unique snowflake just doesn't count, because of the way differential diagnosis requires them. The more common something is, the worst they are dealing with it if there isn't that unique...

Wow, they're actually blaming patients for their terrible approach to medicine? Obviously if you implement a model that encourages to ignore symptoms and reduce testing you are going to miss out on many conditions. It's the classic throwing the baby out with the bathwater. You can't have the...

Artificial intelligence for breast cancer detection in screening mammography in Sweden: a prospective, population-based, paired-reader, non-inferiority study https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(23)00153-X/fulltext Findings From April 1, 2021, to June 9, 2022, 58 344...

Amazing what happens when people understand there are simply no consequences to misbehavior. Cochrane is a leader on this, has paved the way for a new gold standard of systemic misbehavior and total indifference to their mission. What I don't understand is the indifference and dereliction of...

This is ridiculous in a "let's make the minimum wage $100K/h", which is meant as a joke. If we are to believe the numbers about mental illness, and there is no reason to do so as they are obviously wildly inflated in part by making all unsolved diseases and illnesses to be mental illnesses...

"Independent" "study". Obviously there will be no objective outcomes. And calling this a study is a huge stretch. No one is studying anything, they are merely pragmatic trials through which astrological aromatherapy could pass if someone manages to get approval for a biased enough study...

Have they tried hypnotizing them? Maybe dousing them in the blood of roosters slaughtered at midnight? Perhaps given them a small voodoo doll in their likeness to cherish and nurture? While they're there. Maybe the interviewers didn't try hard enough. Maybe they don't want to do their job and...

They sure do. But at the end of the day, currency can be counted as a precise quantity. As can the quantity of goods produced, tax revenue, imports/exports and the numbers of consumers in various areas or grocery stores, along with other basic data points. That makes it a very hard science...

Well, they're not coding for ME. Or even CFS. And we're not fixing this broken ass profession any time soon. There's no requirement to wait 6 months, or any arbitrary period, for PEM, and that's often used as an excuse for ME. It's disturbing how unmotivated this profession is at knowing. Just...

If they want this money to deliver something, they need to move away from a grant model and build long-term foundations through an institute model that guarantees stable careers and a high level of cooperation, especially leveraging grad students, who typically do most of the research anyway...

This sure is a choice. A terrible one, a common one, but it is a choice of some sort nonetheless. It's ironic that the BPS model has given prominence to this kind of extremely reductive nonsense associating high level behavior to a single molecule. How "holistic". Same with dopamine being...

It really doesn't. Not even a bit. It's very easy to find out that this cannot even be the case, trivial to falsify. It's hard to excuse this as even laziness at this point. It's refusing to even look at any of the evidence. This is actually casting doubt on medicine being a proper science...

I'm glad that Todd Davenport is part of this. He is as good an ally and as professional as it gets. I'm not especially concerned with the possibility of coding for PEM not leading to coding for ME, people aren't being coded for ME already, and encouraging the use of the PEM code can easily...

Quite a nice workaround that evidence-based medicine has. A similar ruling should apply to Jon Stone's neurosymptoms.org website. But it's OK to hype invalid claims in EBM, things you can't do in advertising. No need to advertise if you can promote fake clinical evidence, however. It's marketing...