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I don't think that's a fair comparison. At some point, NFTs were worth a lot of money, they had a lot of value. Completely speculative unsustainable bubble value. But value nonetheless. Not just the promise and potential of value, people actually produced, sold and bought them with the intent of...

I don't think I've seen research that relied on very fit pwLC, when they are clearly not deconditioned yet in the medical sense, and how their performance evolves over time, how they compare with those who recover, and how their physiology changes. Only the large observational studies are...

This is an odd conclusion that really misses the point. Without social media, Long Covid would be completely ignored. And yet they conclude to be wary of social media, and to defer to experts, who missed Long Covid entirely and are still largely dismissive of it. They don't seem to notice how...

Dude just has his effort preference compass all screwed up. It points to wherever his interest lies. Double entendre intended. But it is nice that NICE pointed out the hypocrisy.

I don't know why it took 32 years to publish this, or why it's paywalled, but whatever it's done. And it looks rather good. I've been waiting a few days to use this: And of course it's even worse here because it's not even a metric. But trying to optimize an outcome like this always leads to...

Lies, damn lies, and complete bullshit. This is the study they use to base the validity of those 'signs' being rule-in evidence.

And then of course the usual standard is that it must be demonstrated that it does not cause harm. It can't be assumed that it doesn't, it has to be shown that it clearly doesn't. This is something they all know about but it doesn't apply to biopsychosocial junk. It was one of the main...

So it's an element of gamification with an element of gambling, levering either or both effects. Neither of which has scientifically accurate models, it must be said, and gambling is all about the law of big numbers with a small number of outliers accounting for a huge % of the total, gambling...

I really don't like that comparison and don't think it's valid. The experience of being stuck at home for a but during the pandemic and being stuck at home because you are ill are as different as the experience of being in jail for a few weeks is to being held indefinitely in a prison where they...

And even when the rewards are higher, they are so laughably small that they are completely tokenistic for all intents and purposes. My thinking about this worthless test, I don't think it's valid in any context, is precisely about token rewards. Video games provide the best example of this, and...

Damn I need to find that image again. How did it go? "Intervention X for condition Y with variant Z for sub-group A-W" and they just run through the combinations in endless ways. Even though they are all fully generic and the entire ideology is all about ignoring all the actual details and...

So starting from the premise that there are no evidence-based interventions for this, they... more or less copy-paste the current model of generic 'evidence-based' recommendations that they pretend are 'bespoke' because they're so generic that everyone takes different things from it. They've...

Pretty telling that the two bottom items are literally the bulk of the biopsychosocial approach. You know, the one that is 'holistic' and 'patient-centered', but consists of 'teaching' things they don't understand and coercing us to do things that harm us. And it's not on the ladder but...

There's at least that other, far more likely and rational explanation, that happens to be the opposite of what is alluded in the paper's text: that the opposite of choosing the low effort is happening, that we want to make the effortful choice, but our brain, knowing better, is telling us that...

Zero attempt at validity or at making sense or reason of the facts. And nothing's changed. The words and labels have shifted a bit, but as reflects the video of Brian Walitt talking about fibromyalgia, from 2015, the exact same ideas are still the basis for ye olde conversion disorder that is...

It's like an aggressive mix of the sunk cost fallacy and the foot-in-the-door strategy. They fight to get their foot in the door, then once the systems have bought the BS they have shown themselves unable to walk back from it, to the point where they will avoid making any assessment of efficacy...

Well thanks for those who made a deeper analysis in the BS effort task. It's really holding up so far that this study is worse in context, and the more context you add the worse it is. All I can say about the effort task, beyond being completely inappropriate here, is that by comparison it...

So what does this add up to? Deconditioning they cannot find evidence of. Functional deconditioning? But it's also physical and sets over time? Even though it sets in rapidly early in the illness? And fluctuates? And what is physical about it then, if the usual findings for deconditioning aren't...

X has not been comprehensively studied. Here's a systematic review and meta analysis of this poorly studied issue. Most of which consist of biased and poorly conducted half-baked efforts. This is the kind of brain dead nonsense these people produce. And it all amounts to worse than simply...

I routinely see this in the wild in the LC community. Seems very invasive and not especially convincing. About on par with HBOT and acupuncture, frankly. In terms of how often it's discussed.