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Generally, they simply separate acute pain, real pain, from chronic pain, "learned" pain. So it should only work on that "learned" pain, which they probably think they're avoiding because they think it right by not falling for the wrong thinking. Or whatever. Until it actually happens to them, I...

The leaders in the functional ideology, at least the bastardized version applied to us, have published more than once, and commented outside of academia, "diagnosing" people with functional movement disorders watching videos on tik-tok. Never saw the patients. Never talked to them or examined...

Yeah this account is a pwME that collects good and bad stuff. Same handle on twitter.

How can a systematic review end up with only 5 studies when there have been hundreds, probably north of a thousand? All poor quality, sure, but so are the included ones. This is not what systematic means, at least the word. Because routinely we see "systematic reviews" that exclude 99% or so of...

There is a virtual event today on Long Covid, featuring a US Senator pwLC, Tim Kaine (who was Hillary Clinton's VP candidate), and the assistant secretary of the department of Health.

Oh, I would frame that quote. Nice.

Unfortunately with the people involved, this study cannot be trusted, it is too biased. I don't understand how bias is basically irrelevant in EBM. It's as biased as the fraudulent studies put out by the tobacco companies. There are better bits than usual but it's still absurd to be stuck at...

Frankly, looking at what has happened with LC, we punched way above our weight. We even did a lot of debunking ourselves, it's just that it turns out that evidence is irrelevant in evidence-based medicine, and that, clearly, some patients are way less equal than others. We lead the horse to the...

I saw a thread yesterday on the LC subreddit and someone mentioned a program at Mayo they will take part in where they were told that LC is two things: organ damage, or the rest is their "body being stuck in flight of fight mode". Which is not even a thing, and the F or F thing is a crude...

Do these people literally don't know that animals exist? Animals with far lower intelligence, no theory of mind and very basic instincts? Or that they also feel pain? And heat. And touch. Even without a neocortex. Or even a complex nervous system. It's a freaking evolutionary adaptation to...

Oops? To think that all of this, or at least the modern incarnation, was driven by the belief that it would be cost-effective. All it accomplished is to waste billions building up a pseudoscience so millions of lives get ruined at a cost of trillions. Brilliant work, geniuses. Although to be...

Seems more of a case of never having adopted falsifiability as necessary, or even important, than having abandoned it. This conversion disorder nonsense started in the late 19th century, when barely 1-2% of what we know today was known, and science as we know it had barely took hold. Peptic...

Perceive, how Orwellian. Marketing the study while it's ongoing, and showing pathetic "benefits", that 15% is definitely something to sneeze at, now that's peak evidence-based medicine. It really is all about perception, just not the patients'. The researchers are clearly showing they...

So it seems from a peek in the rabbit hole that this review is having a huge impact in the antivaccine and pandemic deniers circles. They love it, have a newly-found-but-very-selective love for high-eminence publications. Same for the recent Lancet paper minimizing Long Covid. The Lancet, and...

Image so can't quote but a pro hockey player (NHL) who missed an entire season and is stepping back again after returning to play. Used to be a superstar player.

Always focuses on distress, never the real life consequences of being disabled with no support. That framing has to change.

I don't see how this is any different from the nonsense in the 70's about cancer personalities. Seems like medicine is badly struggling to learn any lessons when they are to blame. The entire credibility of scientific medicine is precisely that it's based on medicine. So what credibility does...

I watched the PBS report posted here. Impressive work. It begins with patient excerpts and they really capture the overall impact well. Very impressed, PBS Newshour remains one of the best news program out there. Worth watching, although nothing new for most here. Impressed by Putrino as well...

Well, obviously. There is no scientific understanding of fatigue, how it works or how to assess it objectively. It's just as true in any disease, is not particular to the neglected spaces of medicine. But the entire discipline is committed to wasting everything they do on nonsense like this...

It's research on conversion disorder. That's not serious at all. Doesn't matter if they do advanced lab work or a summoning circle. It's junk regardless.