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A moving article from the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet about 26 year old Sandra who suffers from ME. The article contains a 7 minute interview with her and Mats Lindström, leader of an association for infectious diseases which are challenging to diagnose. Despite having been diagnosed, Sandra...

Two more letters to Dr Godlee. The first is from Philip Stark, a professor of statistics at Berkeley. The second is from Robert Garry, a virologist at Tulane. ***** Dear Dr. Godlee-- I hope you reconsider your decision. Leaving this paper in place is a disservice to science and to public...

And it seems she was already improving anyway when she started with LP. But none of that matters, I guess. This article is another addition about Lightning Process (TM) in the academic literature, providing an aura of credibility and will for sure be enthusiastically used in further marketing...

from Oslo.. oh dear.. I've only skimmed this but :banghead::banghead::banghead: Here's from the patient's story in her own words (from the sci-hub-link) I got in contact with the CFS organization through the internet, but I soon learned how they “protected” their disease. They turned down...

The mysterious dog deaths have gotten a lot of media coverage. One of them is from the Norwegian broadcast cooperation today about an upcoming health register for animals. Such a register would have been very helpful in the ongoing investigation of finding the cause of these deaths. By 1. Oct...

I wonder if any of these detours could have been avoided had there been patients present at the table when decisions on research allocations were made..

Thousands of Studies Begin to Paint New Picture of Chronic Fatigue “Many doctors still don't know that there are over 9,000 studies in the published scientific literature that show that there is something wrong in the body,” Komaroff lamented. “They order their usual tests, the usual tests...

This article from 1999 surfaced in a Facebook-debate about the Dagens Medicin-article. It's from when Per Fink started up his research on functional disorders and his rhetoric was a bit more evident back then. Kristeligt Dagblad: Ny dansk forskning i indbildt sygdom Google translation: New...

Here's the list from @benji 's link Review team members and their organisational affiliations Mr Phil Parker. London Metropolitan Unviersity Ms Live Landmark. Norwegian Business School BI Professor Børge Sivertsen. Uni Health and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health Professor Johan Kvalvik...

Jonathan Edwards has joined the ME debate in Norway a couple of times, and I believe it has played an important role. One thing is that his inputs of course have been valuable and knowledgable in themselves. But having someone of his academic calibre supporting the patient's side matters even...

I'm sure that would be greatly appreciated! Don't have a good overview of who is who in Denmark, but will try to pass it on. Thank you!

I assume that would be press officer Lene Toscano, senior doctor and journalist email: lenesanc@rm.dk Source: http://funktionellelidelser.dk/kontakt/

Here is the program for the seminar (in Danish). The section where Per Fink spoke was titled How to build bridges Director Anne Kaltoft, Heart Association and professor Per Fink, Research clinic for functional disorders, about communicating with the sceptics

The Danish medical newspaper Dagens Medisin has had a seminar about health where psychiatrist Per Fink was invited. He talks about how he's been attacked and harassed by patients, and even had a senator speaking against him. His clinic has hired help from a communication agency, the staff has...

Interesting. Thanks for the info, @benji ! Wonder why the Norwegian Institute of Public Health pulled out, but glad they did.

With two Norwegians among the authors, one of them a professor from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Good grief!

ETA: BentHHoyre whom Nina E. Steinkopf directed her tweet to, is the minister of health in Norway, Bent Høie.

This post and the following ones have been moved from this thread. Blogger Nina E. Steinkopf has written a blog post about Lightning Process and its entry into Norwegian medical establishment. She draws a parallel to Elizabeth Holmes from USA, who through network and false claims managed to...

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