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A large German newspaper dedicates page 3 to a personal story about a friend with ME. Potential association of Covid 19 sequelae with ME only marginally mentioned in the text, but prominently in the caption: First it was a scratchy throat. Soon Nora could barely stand up, could barely speak...

Hilda Bastian: Steps to reduce bias in systematic review protocols (The Publication Plan) https://thepublicationplan.com/2020/07/22/steps-to-reduce-bias-in-systematic-review-protocols/

I'm not optimistic. It seems that scientific reasoning, facts and evidence don't matter much when it comes to the 'successful' implementing of BPS medicine, at least in a couple of the wealthiest European countries. See...

From the "Recovery Norway" website: Rona Moss-Morris, Professor of Psychology as Applied to Medicine, Head of Health Psychology, King’s College, London, UK: “We can learn a lot from these stories about recovery from CFS – look forward to more”. Vegard Bruun Bratholm Wyller, Professor...

https://twitter.com/maxwhd/status/1285910603505311744 A slide from COFFI popped up in the video (obviously inserted afterwards to challenge the speaker's claims) and reminded me of this project.

...and actually is expanding in medical education in a couple of European countries. From the German language wikpedia page on "Biopsychosocial medicine" : Doctor training "In 2011 Josef W. Egger was appointed to the first chair for Biopsychosocial Medicine in the German-speaking world at the...

Is there any account of what this company actually tried to do and did? Only found a source saying the company's business activity was "Human health and social work activities" and existed from 2002-2010 (https://www.companieslondon.com/uk/04364122/one-health).

https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-why-are-some-people-experiencing-long-term-fatigue-141405?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton Interesting how this piece by Frances Williams seems to differ from the one by Katarina Zimmer in The Scientist that quotes Williams. In 'The...

Just to give a hint at my current shape -- Rafts? Red rafts? (I wondered.)

Thanks @MEMarge and @Esther12 for your informative comments on 2 persons incolved with the UKRN and @Graham for your letter proposal. Unfortunately ATM not able to properly comment or outline my ideas about what could be a worthwhile involvement with the UKRN. Not sure whether worthwhile to...

From the same author: Rasmussen, Erik & Ro, Karin. (2018). How general practitioners understand and handle medically unexplained symptoms: A focus group study. BMC Family Practice. 19. 10.1186/s12875-018-0745-2. "The biomedical frame emphasised the lack of objective evidence, problematized...

Don't know where else to put this. https://twitter.com/keithgeraghty/status/1284019767028965376 https://twitter.com/keithgeraghty/status/1284028628548956160 https://twitter.com/keithgeraghty/status/1284028894895640577 (Maybe see also...

That network seems to have grown a bit... The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) https://www.ukrn.org/ Some familiar people on the Advisory Board: https://www.ukrn.org/advisory-board/ Recent event: The King's Open Research Conference: daring to shift research culture towards more...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/its-frightening-doctors-say-half-of-cured-covid-patients-still-suffer/amp/?__twitter_impression=true ME/CFS not mentioned, but...

Stuart, R., Campbell, S., Osumili, B., Robinson, E. J., Frost-Gaskin, M., Pacitti, R., ... Henderson, C. (2020). Do welfare benefit reassessments of people with mental health conditions lead to worse mental health? A prospective cohort study. The International journal of social psychiatry...

Grossarth-Maticek's self-defense (applying Godwin's law among other interesting rhetorical tools) : https://www.krebs-chancen.de/referenzen-und-gutachten/denunziation-englisch/

https://twitter.com/livingnexisting/status/1278595656039481345 According to that report it seems to me that participants benefited from exchange similar to the chats we have in the S4ME community lounge or to what people who are able to attend meetings in person do in their local support groups.

https://twitter.com/ClrBlwrs/status/1278572045077446657 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/why-reassuring-the-public-may-not-be-the-best-way-to-end-lockdown

David Tuller: Can't access their own previous work Daniels et al cite to check whether they referred to PACE there. Or to the Cochrane review on CBT? Also it's hard to check how they deal with potential inconsistencies in the findings on (health) anxiety in the abundance of Crawley's and...

David Tuller: Reminds me of a 'safe-cruise-across-the-atlantic'-analogy.