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Thanks a bunch, RFK Jr, and your batshit insane obsessions. What a legacy. :facepalm:

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There are some weird people in the world. Such as those who need a scientific justification to eat chocolate without feeling guilty. :rolleyes:

This.

This is probably correct. At least some of what we might currently perceive as random is just insufficient understanding of the causal relationships driving it all. This. In fact we do it naturally, without planning, or motivating by an external force.

This possibility was, of course, a bit of snark. If it were true then we would be self-healing instantly all the time and hence would not be sick!

Given the right adjustments, people with ME/CFS, in all its categories of severity, possess capabilities that could be revived to a reasonable and necessary level of function for an elevated experience of life. As the social model of disability would argue, people with ME/CFS are not disabled...

Very good letter, @InitialConditions. Thank you. :thumbup:

Indeed. The correct response to the oil pressure warning light coming on and the temperature gauge starting to rise is not to press the accelerator harder. I hope this paper is an anomaly. A (maybe even the) critical piece of evidence for lack of deconditioning (at least substantial enough to...

Which version? :devilish:

Thresholds are a less problematic concept for me, as long as it is understood that they are dynamic and to some extent chaotic; not easy to spot, not a simple marker to avoid, more like a fuzzy space with a lot of inherent unpredictability; and not crossing a threshold doesn't mean you are...

I increasingly get the feeling that in general there are now sufficient clues sitting there in front of us, but we don't have the right conceptual framework yet to make the connections and draw a good research map.

Has he ever considered gathering sufficient robust evidence?

What most strikes me about the BPS movement is its lack of humility. They are utterly certain they are correct, and are instead entirely focused on how to market it to the lay public, the profession, and the political class.

Convalescence is a concept and term that could be useful for us. Good chance, I think, that a lot more patients would do considerably better in the long term, even if not actually fully recovering, if they were both diagnosed early, and allowed to convalesce adequately in the early stages.

It is staring the medical profession and governments right in the face, and yet... *crickets*

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It's pathetic, isn't it. They will not commit to the one thing that will help both us and their short-sighted budgetary obsessions, which is a solid basic research program. How many decades have been lost now because of this and the blocking of non-psych research by the psychs?

What angle is it (approx.)?

Damning with faint praise, indeed.