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I hope we will also see an influential article on the economic losses caused by ME/CFS and the extreme foolishness of not even trying to address this. We've had some academic papers but we need something for a broad audience.

Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. Especially when the person is told there is some hidden meaning to be discovered. That would seems to be a serious problem in this approach.

@Simon M there is an error in the picture. It says "blinded trials, subjective outcomes" when it should say "unblinded trials, subjective outcomes".

Had she continued to complain about pain, they would have cut out more of her brain. No wonder she was miraculously cured.

Will any CBT/GET illness model believers change their minds due to covid? I'm constantly hearing from covid and long covid patients themselves all the things we patients have been saying. They just want to get on with life but find out empirically that they can't. Reducing activity levels is a...

There are 4 types of multiple sclerosis. How was it discovered that there were 4 types? It's alo well known that there are two types of diabetes.

Do you know anything about how the EU might intend to fund research into under-investigated conditions? How can we prevent that they will fund people like Fink?

He must be referring to infection.

I too suspect that long covid may well fade away. Classification according to the damage done (lung scarring, etc) is superior to a broad label like long covid. The patients that have such problems will be diagnosed with that. That will leave the ME/CFS-like patients where it's not clear what is...

Is this promising enough to do a proper study? The brain imaging was done before and after treatment. That means the improvement in hypometabolism could last only for a short time. Treatment is not cheap but it would be worth it if it gives long lasting benefits. On the physical subscale of...

These studies demonstrate just how worthless this entire line of research is. Total idiocy. Maybe these women have unexplained illness because the idea that women are hysterical has prevented the explanations from being found. Maybe they don't move much because they are ill. Maybe they are...

If someone asked me what fibromyalgia is, I would say it's an illness with widespread constant pain, possibly resulting from injury to the nervous system. With a high proportion having small fiber neuropathy. How accurate is this? And what one impression does a reader get from reading wikipedia?

I suspect the themes in his article will be the same as the ones in his tweets: harmful short-termism, serious problem not acknowledged, need more research, patients need help.

I admit that I'm slightly worried that Monbiot will have the best intentions but make some mistake due to the complexity of the topic. Hopefully he'll send the article to an independent expert for review before the publication.

What appears to be happening is that patients are naturally recovering and the intervention is being given credit instead.

I have had similar thoughts about activity either depleting something good or causing accumulation of something bad. It's not that I'm unable to exert myself, it is just abnormally stressful for the body to do so. Usually my PEM is delayed until the day after which makes me think that something...

Is anyone still skeptical that long covid would help ME/CFS gain visibility and credibility?

Does cold water immersion have merit as treatment for poor microcirculation?

There is a third possible explanation which is that they did listen and interpreted what patients were saying as irrational belief and catastrophizing.