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thanks!

To be clear, I was meaning claimed success stories--we have no idea that the treatment had any impact at all

wow, very thorough! Hope you get a response. I feel sorry for the student, who is obviously being steered wrong. I just posted on Facebook about it.

Ah, thanks!

If I were writing this piece, i would have tried to interview patients who felt helped by the treatment and presented at least one such story, while also explaining that anecdotal recoveries do not mean anything scientifically and that the science doesn't show that at all. But part of the story...

i can't tell if the actimeter data are considered actual outcomes. Where do you see that this will not be measured at the very end?

The subtitle about "the impact" of emotions presupposes the conclusions. Unfortunately, given that it's a cross-sectional survey, it will be impossible to tease out cause and effect. It seems pretty clear that these illnesses will be associated with troubled emotions/relationships. We know that...

I haven't read it yet, but I know the reporter and she's very smart.

thanks. yeah, I see that. that explains why it was written this way. it's weird that it's still up, as if time has stood still for six years.

This is a current publication??

this is interesting. I never heard anyone in the 80s or 90s, before protease inhibitors changed the picture, describe their HIV-related symptoms in anything remotely resembling what I hear in relation to PEM. Fatigue, yes.

Oxford NHS foundation trust also produced the covid recovery advice based on CBT/GET that they then took down.

Good connection! I hadn't noticed that.

The journal has written us back that our letter has been sent to the authors for their response. The journal promises to get back to us with a plan of action, likely next month.

I've never understood how anyone could accurately assess this.

Gee, ya think?

Nice that they got to shoehorn in Crawley's LP study, however. I doubt this paper mentions that study's 3,000-word correction. Edited: Out of an excess of discretion, I removed a very derisive adjective before "LP study." It was true but I decided to remove the word anyway.

I wrote about that 2019 presentation from McMaster University here. The "findings" are meaningless: https://www.virology.ws/2020/09/02/trial-by-error-what-is-the-dynamic-neural-retraining-system/

Secondary generational trauma because their parents or grandparents were victims of domestic partner violence?

No, they are incapable of conjuring such thoughts or other reasonable explanations, it would seem. They are trapped in their own self-delusions.