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Interesting that nothing more has emerged - as far as I know - from Cochrane or the press outside Scandinavia. The review is still not actually withdrawn is it?

You can choose whatever name you like. I am a professor in Connective Tissue Medicine - a speciality I invented and of which I remain the only professor!

Well, it is no less scientific than the way these neo-Freudians imagine it I am sure and probably nearer reality. The trouble is either way you cannot write down any equations that even predict vague probabilities about what will happen under specific circumstances. You cannot built testable...

Agreed, but surely its is builds showing us what scientific life is like. I get the impression that it is a bit like people being shown what life is like in the abbey with the abbott and monks all having a jolly time exchanging the same myths and singing by the same hymn sheet. Heretics burning...

I cannot quite see what this tells us about exercise. It tells us that maybe, in a dirty retrospective study, being fit is associated with living longer. Who says the fitness was due to exercise alone and not also background factors that correlated with longevity?

It seems that neurology as a subject was first recognised with the term in the seventeenth century. 'Psychiatry' was coined either 1808 or 1846, depending on who you believe. I suspect psychiatry never really took off until the craze for psychotherapy around the time of Freud. I don't have any...

I don't really understand what you are getting at @Inara. It seems that originally psychiatrists were part of neurology - so they were neurologists or Nervenartz. That is how it was in the UK and US I think. Psychiatry split off from neurology, not the other way around.

Is it possible to alert Cort Johnson to his error because this does help the advocacy case.

I thought someone had shown that if you exercise you might just about live longer by the amount of time you wasted making yourself feel ill exercising. And who wants to live longer? As if that was equal to 'health'. And of course the non sequitur is that these data relate to whole populations...

Sorry, @Inara, but I don't think that is the case. The fourth edition of Osler (the standard medical textbook) in 1901 quotes Dubief earlier. "Parkinson's disease has no characteristic lesions but on the other hand it is not a neurosis. It has for an anatomical basis the lesions of...

Carol did mention something about being too late for Tuesday although it was not clear what.

Yes, I would go much further and say all our decisions and inferences and novel ideas arise from unconscious brain computations. The fallacy I see is the idea is that there is an 'unconscious mind' similar to the conscious mind but hidden, like a ghost writer. Both are seen as 'agents'. So the...

My understanding from the meeting yesterday is that this is about bidding for a slot and maybe fixing a time for a debate in the House itself. The intention is to focus on under-resourcing of ME research and treatment and discontinuation of potentially harmful treatments rather than PACE.

Some Scandinavians seem to be getting the message and tone right. Carol Monaghan might find this helpful.

I agree. To my mind, some time around 1990-2000 medicine had got to a fairly advanced state intellectually, in terms of the scientific community having become educated in the more subtle aspects of causation. That education drew on insights published over the 1960-1995 period. Since that time...

That is a remarkably well worded quote from Finland. Nothing unreasonable, but pulling no punches.

But are they really psychosomatic?

My worry is the way round this is. I am sure there are real illnesses caused by strange things happening in parts of the brain. And those things are caused by other things of various sorts. But 'psychosomatic' is a theory and I have never worked out what that theory is. Psycho is supposed to be...

As @Esther12 suggestd, I think this is misleading and probably unhelpful @Alvin because other PWME reading may take is as fact. Parkinson's disease has involuntary physical signs that are so unique and typical that they are one of the first things students get taught to recognise. The cogwheel...

She has also published with Brian Hughes. It would be interesting to meet her.