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I saw on xitter that Dr Blitshteyn had a paper rejected by an academic journal because she advocates too much for patients with Long Covid. I wonder if it's this, posted instead as a letter to the editor. Apparently you can advocate against patients, even be openly hostile against them and work...

Well ain't that something. Pretty good and direct. *Gasp* informed.

This is impressive propaganda with a blatantly clickbait title optimized for media headlines. The editors know what they're doing here. It doesn't even come close to being a serious study. Things have gotten so bad in academia that peer-reviewed research published in a high impact journal offers...

This is very circular and generic. Also lacking in any kind of validity whatsoever. For all the concerns about the potential of AI flooding academia with BS, there's a blatant lack of focus on the fact that some disciplines are already nothing but a flood of human-generated nonsense. It seems...

Oh, and contacting the IAG members. Some questions to ask them have been put forward in another thread, the Bastian talk page I think. Cochrane and Bastian haven't told us anything in years. That only leaves the IAG members, and the time has long passed to pretend that this process is anything...

I don't have a specific suggestion as to how and can't help much but perhaps contacting the Long Covid groups and getting them to sign on. Not all of them see the overlap with them, or want anything to do with ME/CFS, but it should not take much of a leap to understand that clinicians definitely...

This is pretty much like a dictator in power for decades running an election attacking the current government, which they've been controlling for decades, and running as a new bold reform candidate while at the same time boasting about their numerous accomplishments. Which is a thing that...

That's just fantasy. There is no adaptation to education that can do that. Not without effective treatments. There is some level of adaptation that can be of help to some, about the lowest possible standard, but it begins and ends with medicine by simply removing the problem entirely, removing...

Worthless methodology, but why bother doing the study when this much bias is evident? Just assert it and call everyone who points out the flaws anti-recovery activists. I often wonder where these people actually believe they're doing science, or know full well that everything they do is...

WTH kind of BS is an exercise trial aimed at improving cognitive impairment anyway? The whole point of exercise is that it has broad physiological, mostly non-specific, benefits. For most known benefits exercise is exercise, it doesn't have any particular aim and that's precisely what makes it...

This is like the doctors who made ads recommending a cigarette brand that goes down smoothly down the throat tut-tutting the 'pseudoscience' that smoking causes cancer and other health problems. Negative level of self-awareness. It's stunning the sheer amount of total bullshit that comes out of...

Predictors that can't be used to predict anything... Yes, that would have been great 4 years ago when we knew just as much as this. Still a good idea today. Can't wait for it to begin to be in some eventual planning phase for future consideration. Because until then the quacks who have...

Well ain't that guy a natural charmer. And "woke medicine". LMAO. The overlap between psychosomatizers, the misogynistic alt-right and Internet trolls is a perfect circle. Even the completely fake appeal to freedom of speech, from people who systematically silence and bully others. Peas in a...

Seems pretty on brand for him. I'm not sure I noticed his name attached to something meaningful.

I don't think they have the skills for that. Otherwise they wouldn't be where they are today. If there's one thing that is universal in biopsychosocial land, it's a complete inability and/or refusal to learn anything. About as likely as them becoming a space shuttle service by growing their...

It's definitely a discipline where telling the simple truth is the most radical act. Well deserved and courageous. A discipline where telling lies and bullying sick people into misery and death gets you awarded and celebrated by your peers. Only in politics, business... and medicine.

And therefore not deconditioned nor have wasted their muscle mass for weeks being very sick to the point of being completely bedbound, which would still not explain their symptoms but is irrelevant anyway. For most of them anyway, with relatively little differences between the mild and the...

I hope something like this doesn't happen to me because there's almost zero chance I wouldn't just call them stupid for believing in bullshit like this. Which I assume would leave some note on my record about being unpleasant and non-compliant. Although also maybe jovial, since I'd probably...

There's still a lot of a "No True Scostman" vibe that fantasizes about a version of psychosomatic medicine that never existed, very similar to people who fantasize about some period in time when the world was simple and at peace, which just happens to coincide with the time when they were...

Skimming the paper, there's not a single bit of anything that supports this idea of a gut-brain thingy or another. They're GI symptoms following an infection and those are fairly common and have nothing to do with the brain or psychology. But this is their starting point, for some odd...