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Just as ineffective at it, but largely harmless? I like it.

"If someone says it's raining and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both," goes a quote often attributed to journalism professor Jonathan Foster. "Your job is to look out of the f—-ing window and find out which is true." Is 3>4, though? Who really knows? What kind of...

Hey we are Type A personalities after all! Well, some are. Not really statistically different than the whole population. And it doesn't affect outcomes. But it could! Imagine a world where it could. It would obviously explain why we all just give in to the "sick role". Well, we mostly don't, and...

The lesson only sticks as long as you're in the hole. Once you're out, all the lesson goes away, and it's all too easy for people to convince themselves that got out of the hole by being smarter. People rarely see the role of chance in outcomes. I really thought those recovered from LC in...

Uh. Seems to have missed the point, that she is one such statistic. Not that she was, she still is. It never gets removed from the record. Reminds me of people who push policies that discriminate against a population, when they are themselves part of that population. But they're "one of the good...

The label above says "a biopsychosocial model", but below is literally symptoms reported by patients. This is not a model. Models explain, this explains nothing, and it describes even less. I do think it's a positive move. Just like most papers on "functional disorders" plainly state that it's...

Textbook example of where a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be useful as a metric. This is in line with another paper posted today, which assumes that psychosocial is good, more psychosocial is better, therefore measuring how much psychosocial clinicians are doing means that they are doing...

In the never-ending game of rebranding the same old ideas, the beliefs are no longer 'unhelpful', we're just too ignorant to understand them the way they do: The premise here is clearly that psychosocial is good, more psychosocial is better, and that it mostly involves convincing patients that...

All of those are routinely handed out to pwME, sometimes in alternative to, sometimes in addition to. So it's hard to say whether there is any validity to any of those. And the standard questionnaires for this mostly have overlapping questions so even if it's not just someone's opinion, there is...

I can't really see a future where there isn't one such institute and medical specialty. Even if it happens after the breakthrough that enables it. How do you see it fitting otherwise? It straddles too many specialties. Without a home, it's too hard to get things working.

This is really the whole issue with this ideology. They can only find out that they are wrong by finding what's actually right, and it's defined explicitly on not knowing what's wrong, and deciding it must be that. It's like having students grade their own exam without an answer sheet right...

When the speed of funerals is just way, way too fast for you: "something that hundreds of millions have consistently reported for decades, I guess it could possibly be conceivable that it could maybe exist and be something similar to what is reported". It's going to be something when soon...

There are similar issues with repetitive brain injuries. I recently saw a story about a former military, I think he was special forces, who suffered what he thinks are consequences from blasts suffered in service. This is pretty close to the story of "shell shock" as well. Militaries are very...

Reading this, seems a lot like this region being involved in attention means that it's a difference between conscious, deliberate, attention and relying on learned abilities. So a musician improvising doesn't actively and attentively think about everything, about every move and every next note...

Bit odd that she dismisses the "illness beliefs" as nonsense and says that neither CBT nor GET work, but finishes by blaming the ME community for misleading her. Never blames MDs for pushing the thing she says is nonsense. Garner is definitely pushing the CBT/GET stuff, and the pain reprocessing...

Cringeworthy pseudoscience, just repackaged Freudian myths. It's hard to reconcile how rigorous some aspects of medicine are with how infinitely gullible they seem to be at accepting any and all stories and narratives that "explain" how it's not that they don't understand the problem medically...

COVID’s toll on the brain: new clues emerge https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00828-9 But how would molecules from the rest of the body influence inflammation in the brain? Research from neuroscientist Matthew Campbell and neurologist Colin Doherty at Trinity College Dublin has found...

Blaming social media is such a cheap cop-out and it makes no sense. It doesn't even appear like they asked why. Generally when people do it's because they are better-informed than previous generations, and that's just the same old nonsense blaming newspapers and books. Before that it was...

This is a wild underestimation. It speaks of a £1.5bn hit to the GDP, when the numbers are closer to400K with severe limitations, not only out of work but requiring costs from government and their families, much of which is diffuse and hard to calculate. Average salary in the UK at £35K makes it...

Fun fact: astrological readings and psychic projections, also exactly as effective whether done in-person, by phone, by mail, on a rainbow, at the bottom of an ocean, or in a dream while counting Fibonacci backwards. Same with homeopathy. Exactly as effective as a very expensive bath. In fact...