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The people who promote antivaccination and insist that Long Covid = Long Vaxx especially love it. That's the kind of company our biopsychosocial overlords love to keep around, doesn't seem to bother them one bit that people who are always wrong about everything love their ideas. They also seem...

Ah, yes, the old "everything I don't like is bad" thing. People used to say the same thing about reading newspapers and women riding bicycles. What's next, a questionnaire to assess the neurotic, or whatever no one cares, tendencies of people inclined to overuse BS questionnaires and interpret...

I'm afraid this is now the basic methodology. They'd rather have fake positive results than make real substantial progress. And having something to sell is also now the norm. Medicine has made alternative medicine more lucrative than it's ever been before, since the lines don't exist anymore...

Medicine is the central bank of this currency. They are the ones withholding it here, stop blaming broader society for your profession's failures. None of this is accidental or organic, it's been a deliberate choice for which the horrific consequences, the same exposed here, have long been...

Obvious nonsense. They obviously can't tell the difference between, frankly, symptoms. Patients with this, patients with that, it's all the same to them. Without knowing the pathology, they're completely aimless. The conclusion makes no sense, they claim that the aim is to study effectiveness...

If your construct is based on "having symptoms" and you ask people with many symptoms whether they have symptoms you will get a very confused result that is largely poor interpretation of a concept made up entirely to falsely attribute "having symptoms" to some magical psychological process...

I still think this is something that will inevitably happen. If not before a breakthrough, then after. It's too different from the rest of medicine, it has no other place elsewhere and needs a break from the old sclerotic ways. IMO the best way to go would be to fold the AIDS institute into a...

Bit similar here: SSRIs differentially modulate the effects of pro-inflammatory stimulation on hippocampal plasticity and memory via sigma 1 receptors and neurosteroids https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-023-02343-3

I've seen some discussions lately of fluvoxamine and its possible relevance to both COVID and Long Covid, especially given their "other" properties. I've long suspected that SSRIs have much more to explain their impacts than some "antidepressant" effect, or even the simple blocking of serotonin...

Beyond “Psychotropic”: Repurposing Psychiatric Drugs for COVID-19, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Cancer https://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/beyond-psychotropic-repurposing-psychiatric-drugs-covid-19-alzheimer-disease-cancer/ Importance: “Psychotropic” drugs have widespread reach and impact throughout...

Wishcare, the medical equivalent of wishcycling. "Just rehabilitate them", nevermind that rehabilitation doesn't change anything, has never shown any evidence of being useful and has not produced a single useful bit of knowledge in decades. It's such mindless lack of thinking, it makes them...

They never had to. One universal thing you find about psychosomatic ideology is that nothing they say is ever criticized by their peers, with the only exception coming from the small number who understand chronic illness. Everything they say is taken at face value, accepted as a fact, never...

Yeah, imagine someone doing that. Imagine doing that officially, in a way that has real-life and massively harmful impact. That leads to massive suffering and death, to families being broken, to marriages and relationships ending, to careers being cut short, to poverty and misery and early...

I have had a deep interest in US politics and the broader phenomenon of political culture for years, how it plays out on the Internet, disinformation, trolls and the like. I could speak about this for hours without preparation (if I had my brain back) as easily as I could talk about ME. You are...

Similar excuse as QMUL's BS answer that they don't have the resources to get the PACE data. Misbehavior going unpunished leads to more misbehavior. Funny how that works. It's going to be very hard to justify there not being giant lawsuits for all of this. It's even more nakedly corrupt than...

Overall, not much more coverage or impact than our own annual awareness day. Given the size and interest that LC has garnered compare to ME, this makes our own efforts impressive. I was hoping there would be more, but I can't say that I'm surprised.

Well, authors of this paper, you're in luck: it always did! It was defined as broadly as possible to include all health impacts of a COVID infection. However the expectation was that medicine would take it from there and make it less broad and more refined. That sadly did not happen, and much...

The only thing I enjoy about grifts like this is that they're saying exactly the same nonsense as the most pompous eminent professors of psychosomatics out there, who either don't know, or don't care, that their pseudoscience is explained exactly the same way by people doing a similar private...

Those are very generic and common things. They don't have much to do with "the science of happiness" and there is no indication that anyone is doing any of those things because of some class from years ago and not for other reasons or motivations, especially for being so common. And I don't...

This badly needs to happen and is a good foundation. But even seeing this plan looking at 5 years before it could realistically produce any results fills me with despair.