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ALOTSSOL Syndrome (Always Look On The Shite Side Of Life)

Which means that no medical authority anywhere has the excuse that nobody tried to warn them.

Plus the PACE long-term follow-up paper that confirms it. (Which is not to downplay in any way the critical importance of that FOIA data.)

Because medicine is a protected species, who rarely get called to proper account for their, um, mistakes.

The Goldilocks theory of psychotherapy, where only the therapist knows what is just right and how to guide you there. Except... Poorly defined and permanently unresolved 'problems' are a very convenient source of income and power and excuses. 'We are making good progress, Patient. But you...

We are a honeypot to grifters and charlatans of all kinds.

It has been an extraordinarily brutal and successful hit job on our reputation.

This. You guys want to be taken seriously and get a seat at the big table? Then lift your technical and ethical standards by at least an order of magnitude.

Yes, be careful what you wish for. Better no service than a useless one. LC patients and advocates need to be a lot more aware of this problem then they currently seem to be.

Good discussion, though nothing new to us in it. More about informing the broader community than patients.

The problem with this condition is it's multi-factorial. And we 'know' this how?

Unfortunately there is going to have be a fair chunk of these basic kind of necessary bedrock studies, for the simple disturbing reason that they have not been done yet. The opportunity cost of the dominance of the psychosomatic school is as bad as any direct harm they have done. A robust...

Exactly. SOS. Same Old Shit.

I wish reporting scatter plots was mandatory.

Plankgnosis?

From that article: Existing thread for the linked NEJM piece. https://www.s4me.info/threads/the-new-england-journal-of-medicine-confronting-our-next-national-health-disaster-long-haul-covid-philips-williams-2021.21277/

I would love to see a robust compare and contrast of their claims with those a range of public figures (politicians, actors, climate scientists, etc), and every private citizen online who just happens to be female, are actually subject to in order see just how 'bad' the alleged harassment and...

The devil will be in the detail.

I'll take the clues wherever they find 'em. :thumbsup:

If it actually happened, and the provenance of the alleged threats is properly established. If. It is, of course, a qualified immunity. In return for that freedom and protection, and their expertise derived authority, academics are required to rigorously adhere to a vastly higher...