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Including the inability for the deluded to see that they are deluded, to insist that they are not. The projection is very strong here. The self-awareness, on the other hand, entirely missing.

Very liberal use of "predictive" all over the place here. May as well say that negative transactions in a bank account predicts purchases, or that people throwing away the boxes of recently purchased items predicts those purchases, when really they are just facets of the same thing. Nothing...

Somehow I keep seeing entirely new terms for the same old stuff. Illness anxiety disorder is a new one for me, although there are several nearly identical series of words amounting to the same idea. Today I saw neuroplastic disorder as a replacement term for Central sensitivity syndrome. I'm...

They did. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/life-coaches-and-running-clubs-to-help-get-people-back-to-work-m3ffs3vxh I've often remarked that the entire CBT/GET paradigm and the "exercise is good for health" models all basically amount to therapeutic recreation. Nevermind that the people...

That they still include migraines in this just shows how intellectually bankrupt this whole ideology is. If it wasn't for Marshall and his team, peptic ulcers would still be THE main, uh, I guess it's "mind-body syndrome" now, and we all know that. But even though migraines have had significant...

Yet more evidence that the entire paradigm of evidence-based medicine is garbage. In most of the studies, everyone is reported to have improved. Whether it's true or not, this is what they reported, because they can't properly assess any of this. It's all completely arbitrary. In some cases...

Ultimately, Cochrane has fallen to the Iron law of institutions. Without external oversight or accountability for results, every institution inevitably becomes about its own continuing existence, and the leaders of those organizations make the organization serve their interests, ignoring any...

Oh, that's far from the only reason why many are arguing that it has psychological causes, although the "purely" here is just red herring, everyone pushing psychosomatic ideology has the same spiel about biopsychosocial causes, nevermind that psychological carries 99.9% of the weight. They may...

I know they only use it as an example, but this error of thinking is just so damn common and it's truly absurd that we still have to deal with it. Who sounded the alarm about AIDS? AIDS victims and their loved ones. That's it. It took years until anyone else joined in, and there were major...

The first paper from this group basically concluded "Long Covid? Doesn't appear to exist". It was a terrible paper. This is also a terrible paper, it's lazy and uninterested. It features prominent deniers of Long Covid and chronic illness in general, and they sure did a poor job of even defining...

This is really the best way to achieve something with those billboard campaigns. They need to be placed where medical authorities and the people making those decisions are. It won't sway them, but it will be massively shameful once something happens and they insist that they had no way of...

From 2016, they literally sold it as effective from the start. Again. Like they do every time, and their scam gets promoted as is. 7 years later, the scam is exposed, and I don't think there is any doubt that no one will change anything, they'll still be pushing CBT as a cure, online or not...

So Cochrane fully stands behind the "masks don't work". Of course. Nothing was done incorrectly. Everything was perfect. The Leader is good, the Leader is great. We surrender our will as of this date.

Sounds like Cochrane highly approves of Garner's method of evidence synthesis consisting of "my personal anecdote proves it beyond any doubt, and we should promote positive anecdotes and silence negative anecdotes about mind-brain-body-spiritual conjoinship healing, and also healing hands and...

I think it's the best angle, in fact the only one that matters, and even more so with the fact that this is obviously treatable, since it resolves naturally in most cases. This isn't like ALS or degenerative diseases. One day we will be able to prevent those, but repairing the damage is...

If anything, the lack of regulations probably made it worse overall since it allowed a lot of fake research to gain status. We can pretty much see the same impact with evidence-based medicine and the biopsychosocial model, it's a free-for-all where anyone can say and do anything they want, where...

So just like the FITNET Crawley paper, they compare 2 useless treatments, found them to be equally ineffective, but conclude that they are both effective, since the trials are biased to produce an effect. They effectively do basic arithmetic where A=0, B=0, therefore A and B = 100%, since this...

They did a cost-effectiveness study of 2 useless interventions, found they are equally useless, and will continue using both. And wasted over £1M on this crap. And they'll likely get more to do it again some time later. The aristocrats Evidence-based medicine It's one of those things that...

Long Covid advocates send “unhappy holiday” cards to their representatives https://thesicktimes.org/2023/12/26/long-covid-advocates-send-unhappy-holiday-cards-to-their-representatives/ This month, the organizers of Long Covid Moonshot put together an “Unhappy Holidays” card, letter, and calling...

Was a good read, but it's not really more complex than the easy stuff has been discovered, and it's the same thing everywhere. The next generation of chip fabs (the factories that make computer chips) is expected to cost nearly $30B. That's 30 BILLION dollars for a single factory. Just to build...