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So it's not sensitive to worsening function. That's not good. In fact that's terrible since worsening is far more significant than improvement. And those: are fully generic. But always we see attempts to make scales for each individual condition out there, and for variants of conditions, and...

To borrow a relevant meme... Biopsychosocial screeching

The main objective of modern propaganda is to destroy the very concept of knowable truth. It's not 1984, where A truth is brutally enforced. Rather it's to promote multiple versions and variations of lies that are close to the truth, so that people simply give up believing in anything. This is...

I was thinking about this recently, how ghosts have basically vanished from popular cultures. Up to the 90's, movies about or featuring ghosts were common and often of a scary nature. Nowadays outside of fantasy movies, like Harry Potter and stuff, they basically don't exist anymore. Which...

Infections cannot cause neuroinflammation because neuroinflammation is not an accepted thing. But bad experiences in childhood can and it can lead to any and all illness and symptoms as long as it's all attributed to stress. Got it. Makes sense if you don't think about it. Functional disorders...

Some kind of syndrome, where buildings make people sick? Uh. How uncouth.

I remember some time ago an article featuring one of the clinical lead in Toronto who worked on rehabilitation programs for SARS patients. He was so sad that he couldn't help. With tears in his eyes, said that he'd do it all over again because it was worth it. He wanted to help them so much. But...

Spine surgery = no structural change (given definition of "functional"). People in pain use pain killers. People in pain tend to be diagnosed with a common diagnosis based on pain. Groundbreaking stuff.

And oddly, citing PACE for CBT, but not for GET. Even though GET is the main takeaway for PACE, and the main evidence for the Cochrane review. Literally all made-up.

Well, no, it isn't. In fact there are dozens like this. It's basically the current paradigm, for all intents and purposes, as found in textbooks, presentations and fancy websites. There are people who have been making it their primary income to do this stuff for many years now. So it's old and...

Kind of ironic when you think about it, that with the dominant model of chronic illness being mostly about fear, or whatever, it's almost exclusively ever mentioned by medical and public health authorities as a fear tactic to get people vaccinated. I'd say something about 90% of such mentions...

This is a great example of why after almost 4 years of this exact model, there has been zero progress in Long Covid. This is the current model, applied for nearly 4 years onto millions of people. It's widely acknowledged that there are no effective treatments for Long Covid, and here they come...

No one really takes psychosomatism seriously. It's all for show when they pretend otherwise. Deep down they know there is no actual evidence for any of this, but it's a con, where expressing confidence is the whole thing, so it goes with huffing and puffing when people point out that it's a...

Discovery of a structural class of antibiotics with explainable deep learning https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06887-8 (Paragraph breaks added for legibility, seriously what's up with academia and illegible walls of text?) The discovery of novel structural classes of antibiotics is...

Given everything, that it even crossed double digit % is above my expectations. I guess we're going to find out rather quickly whether the reduction in Long Covid is due to vaccination in itself, or due to recent vaccination. Medicine basically cancelled the control arm for COVID infections...

Some day, we may even get updates about things that happened, rather than about how things in the future, which were supposed to have already happened, may happen, some day. Cochrane simply continues to demonstrate its uselessness and inability to get the most basic things right.

It's so simple, people, just think away your oxidative stress. Mindful away those reactive oxygen species, duh! You have to think that way. No, not this way, that way! I really do wonder if the stress in oxidative stress isn't just causing some weird unconscious bias. They know what it means...

This quote bothered me. It's been said over and over again in the community. The patients know that something is wrong, they want to know WHAT is wrong, because that's how problems become fixable. We all know that unless the problem is understood, there is no way to fix it. This is a huge...

The article has been translated in English, with the title "There Is Money in Prevention", and I can view it without a paywall. https://www.manager-magazin.de/harvard/long-covid-and-the-economy-there-is-money-in-prevention-a-54022db9-428f-41d7-b71c-3f9befa58b0e The article has a table with...

So great that because the widespread denial continues, going on 4 years we're still stuck with small research confirming things that were obvious by the summer of 2020 by simply paying attention. And it really does have to be confirmed, because it's still denied anyway. So there has to be a...