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Anti-science, par excellence. Wessely's talent and skill are basically in politics and sophistry, not science or medicine. Unfortunately he possesses that talent and skill in lavish abundance and has no hesitation to deploy them to his advantage.

Be amazed if it hadn't. Exactly. Why are the vastly greater opportunity costs not being factored in, or even mentioned?

And a lot worse than that. And sometimes not even unsaid.

How on earth do we counter such blatant inconsistency being endlessly allowed through the peer review process and mounting up as 'evidence'? Does reality not matter at all anymore?

Just continuing on the fine tradition of solving a problem by reframing it as something else while also denying it exists in the first place.

They can tell if you are using a VPN, and blanket bans on accessing via a VPN are an effective, if crude, tool to stop people watching from outside the country. Same problem here in Australia if I try to watch stuff on our national broadcaster (ABC). Have to turn off my VPN to access it.

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...