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They certainly have not put forward any robust body of evidence for it, let alone demonstrated a capacity to deal with it in any constructive manner. In short, they have no claim to actual expertise, nor hence any authority over our lives.

Very important issue, and one of the most difficult for patients to deal with.

and the redistribution of responsibilities. The avoidance of blame by the experts.

It is now beyond any doubt that this is the greatest and cruelest catastrophe in modern medicine. It has failed every serious test of explanatory and therapeutic power. Yet there it stands, apparently completely immune to any legitimate criticism and meaningful accountability, instead...

This is clearly just the latest in a long line of propaganda puff pieces the psychosomatic (aka BPS) cult has been endlessly flooding the sacred peer-review literature with, all using the same basic template and repeating the same brazen anti-science drivel, to give the appearance of robust...

The fact that they are removing anything critical tells you all you need to know. If they really believed in what they were saying and that it had a solid evidence base they would not have any trouble being able to bat away criticisms. But they can't.

I agree with this. Patients must not let our desperation cloud our judgement and caution. Most long-termers have made that mistake, including me. Unfortunately it is still being made by some patient support groups and 'patient-led' research.

PACE promotion.

Or patients are learning the rehab approach is useless, and often worse, and quite rightly voting with their feet.

Exactly.

Yep. The whole thing is a complete fiction, spun from the finest of rhetorical threads, and powered entirely by their obsession with proving psychosomatics is actually a Very Important Phenomenon. No really, guys. Never been clear exactly who it is they are most trying to convince, the rest of...

All hail Richard the Peacemaker. :emoji_bow:

What has ever gone wrong with a passenger ship sailing across the Atlantic?

Excessive sweating I think there might be something to this one. Heard this anecdotally a few times over the years, and experienced it myself. Specifically, earlier onset, wider distribution, and greater volume. Maybe not extreme hyperhydrosis, but a definite change. But I agree there is not...

Wessely defended Eysneck. Just saying. The entire purpose of this stuff is to create a psychosocial environment where patients do not feel safe in reporting symptoms or their degree. Which is more than a little ironic. It is a particularly insidious and cowardly form of intimidation and...

There is literally no possible excuse for somebody claiming any degree of expert status to not know the full history of their field, and in considerable detail. That is their damn job. Anything less is reckless wilful ignorance at best, and extreme incompetence, dishonesty, and callousness...

The whole concept of a baseline is unevidenced. It is just an arbitrary piece of nonsense to try justifying their 'treatment' model.

Thanks for doing this. The psycho-behavioural club has never presented any evidence for deconditioning being a significant factor, and indeed have not even made any serious attempt to robustly test that critical assumption. Instead, all the evidence is pointing in the opposite direction: that...

'pacing up' is another.

So why did they not use a longer term assessment? The issues with confounding effects in short-term self-report assessments, especially for CBT, et al, that require time to wash out, are well known including in ME/CFS studies. Interestingly, given it is supposedly the "definitive" work on this...