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  1. rvallee

    Long Covid in the media and social media 2023

    Worth trying again and putting some pressure, with the added "you said so last time". These things can be frustrating to make happen but once the door is open it becomes easier.
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    Trial Report Perceived cognitive impairment is related to internalizing psychopathology but unrelated to objective cognitive performance, etc., 2023, Finley et al

    Medicine is the only discipline where they will see their tests fail and be unable to think that it's their tests that are obviously inadequate. Do they really actually think that they have all the objective tests for all the things? They clearly know better, so why do they pretend here...
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    Psychomotor Vigilance Test - discussion and testing

    I checked and touchscreen sampling rates are fairly close to what most computer mice have. Shouldn't be much more than a 10-15ms difference, and there is a difference with the quality of mice as well so there's variation all around. It's usually between 5-20ms in both cases.
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    Psychomotor Vigilance Test - discussion and testing

    If it's not a great example of how much brain fog impacts us, I don't know what is.
  5. rvallee

    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    Given his recent Cochrane review, likely trying to badmouth the community. Probably in the Norwegian press, or something like that. Do a bit like what Afflicted did to the participants. That was truly revolting stuff.
  6. rvallee

    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    And others, apparently. I guess word of mouth got around. I remember Vogt tried this a few times on Reddit. It did not go well. It's truly amazing how these people can be so delusional about how they are perceived. They'll still go around thinking that the right patients like their stuff. You...
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    Preprint The Human Microglia Atlas HuMicA Unravels Changes in Homeostatic and Disease-Associated Microglia Subsets across Neurodegenerative Conditions, 2023

    I think we got that. Did we get that? I'm pretty sure at least Polybio has that. But yeah we need more brains. Which sounds both creepy and interesting.
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    Book: Treatment of Neurasthenia, 1914, Hartenberg

    Wait are you describing then or now? Because...
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    BMJ: Chronic fatigue syndrome and Long Covid, moving beyond the controversy, 2021, Newman

    There was an article about this in the early days saying he'd gone back when Long Covid started pushing funding to those clinics. Which I guess I kind of missed. Of course they follow the money. Their research is all finely crafted to produce more research. So I guess we should eventually see...
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    Functional disorders are probably associated with psychosocial stress because they're unexplained

    And it must be said that although in recent decades this has largely fallen out of fashion with smart people, it doesn't take going too many decades further back to find ideas like this extremely fashionable throughout the whole population, including in very smart people, even commonly applied...
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    Review DNA methylation signatures of functional somatic syndromes: Systematic review, 2023, Fischer et al

    This is not a fact. At all. It makes a causative claim. There is no evidence of causation, only correlation, which is consistent with being a consequence of. This is not serious, it's opinion. Although yeah we are currently in a phase where they begin with the assumption that there is no...
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    Preprint The predictive role of pain catastrophising following genicular arterial embolisation for the treatment of mild and moderate knee OA, 2023, Harrison+

    So, people who have more pain report more pain, and likely express more pain? What this is definitely worth a dozen Nobel prizes. The chocolate kind, but still.
  13. rvallee

    Long Covid in the media and social media 2023

    Let's see if it can be followed through, maybe a bit of community pressure.
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    Preprint Prevalence of long-term symptoms varies by using different post-COVID-19 definitions in positively & negatively tested adults:PRIME study, 2023, Pagen

    There is likely a natural variation on top of the poverty of most studies. There is no reason why Long Covid should be evenly distributed across the population. There are many factors having to do with local variants, how much they spread and many other factors that naturally lead to variations...
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    A qualitative longitudinal study of a health psychological group intervention for patients with ME/CFS, 2023, Keurulainen et al

    Right. That's very problematic. It meets some needs. Mostly minor needs. It doesn't look all bad, but it gives a very false impression of how useful this is, that this is a replacement for medical care, when it's alternative health care. And really, it's probably no more useful than a GP...
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    Nature Microbiology Editorial: Connecting the dots from viral infection to disease, 2023

    Uh, no, I don't think we can say that anymore. Which makes this: especially damning. Having just abandoned everything having to do with COVID is just incredible mass failure. It's completely unprecedent for an expert profession to just give up like this, about something they know is important...
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    Cochrane Exercise Review Withdrawn - Individual Patient Data

    After having their entire body or research invalidated several times on this ground alone, this is incredibly foolish and stubborn to the point of being fanatical. Looks to me like a shift away from anything about ME/CFS and towards even more generic illness definitions based around single...
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    USA: The RECOVER Initiative - Long Covid research

    Once again showing the disconnect. Someone at the NIH is quoted saying something like "this is what the patients have been demanding all along", which I guess simply means that there are trials, while the community has had a very unimpressed response that is basically, "yeah, we definitely have...
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