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Essentially that the personal characteristics of the patients and in particular their presumed psychological vulnerability led to the perpetuation of symptoms. This was the work carried out on staff at Fort Detrick funded by the US Army Chemical Corps. It was introduced to the UK by Eisenberg in...

I wish someone would ask him whether he believes that Imboden et al's conclusions as to the factors leading to perpetuation of symptoms after Asian flu will hold good for Covid 19, and, if not, why he thought them relevant to ME, and how he distinguishes them.

Does not the realisation of the depletion of one's bank account count as a downside or unpleasant side-effect?t

Time to roll out the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. It always worked in the past.

That was not the sort of matter I had in mind.

My post is off topic and I do not wish to derail the thread but I would like to posit this idea for people's contemplation. Is this wholly inappropriate response to a problem driven by an awareness of the CMRC constitution in its early form. There seems an eerie similarity to the much trumpeted...

Is the silence to be expected, given the likely advice which might be given by "m' learned friends"?

Can it really be true that "philosophers of science" are engaged in such a silly enterprise as "debating the specific identity of the condition"? EITED for typos

Do they make clear what specific measures in the research will seek to overcome this apparent bias?

Furthermore, it is difficult to think of a pathological mechanism by which gradual increased activity could be harmful,8'9 even in the minority of patients with clear cut neuromuscular pathology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1371151/pdf/brjgenprac00083-0040.pdf I suspect that...

Is this a new idea? A presentation alone is sufficient to constitute scientific evidence? Surely that would be mere anecdote. Looks like there needs to be a change of name to ANZMESS. The additional "S" could stand for "secret".

In Whitty's defence, he does not specify that exercise is a "good thing" (whatever that might be) for the individual patient. It seems to be some abstract notion of "good thingness" that he is contemplating

It seems reasonable to assume that people who never learned the art of punctuation, as indicated by their first sentence, are unlikely to be able to describe complex ideas. Where should that comma go? EDIT This may be thought to be nit-picking. It is not. The authors describe "relationships"...

That "little joke" by White seems entirely unprofessional. Whatever happened to "equipoise"? Get him on a witness stand, somebody.

Is that "not" intended? It seems "de trop".

It might be reasonable to expect that they will not emphasise the psychoneurotic elements of any long term sequelae until the health of the Prime Minister is assured.

Some of us have memory problems and may have difficulty remembering which historical issues may be discussed, and which not. Is PACE still on the permitted list?

One can only hope that Holgate was not fairly reported. If he was, he seems to display the sort of "equipoise" that would be appreciated by those on one side of the debate.

It would be interesting to see if this pamphlet is in any way different to the 1995 Surawy paper - the one in which Sharp and Hawton almost managed to pass incognito by masquerading as Al. Perhaps another day. As Sharp did describe himself at one stage as a clinical tutor, it must be said in...

I have a theory about how this term "boom and bust"comes to be in use in descriptions of ME. It may be false. If one takes 1989 as the year of introduction of the term to ME parlance there was at that time much use of the phrase in connection with economic affairs and in particular the Nigel...