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So, somewhere between "no one" and "all people"-1 then.

No doubt multiple sclerosis, with its multiple, varied and variable symptoms was declared psychological for the same reason, i.e. too many symptoms. Another triumph for inductive psychological diagnosis.

I could be wrong, but I believe the Borg Scale is a measure of resistance... ;)

Not to take the thread off track, but I came across this interesting 2016 article in Science about a doctor who's involved in research into the poorly understood, often deadly illness known as Castleman disease. He has a very personal reason for doing so, as he has it himself. Although he's not...

I was just thinking that the more numerous and varied the diseases that the nanoneedle detects, the more difficult it's going to be figure out the common denominator, and it would increase the likelihood that the denominator is a common consequence of most diseases. Which makes me wonder if it...

I'm thinking that Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) might be a really important disease to test the nano-needle against. Nancy Klimas says that the GWS and MECFS are symptomatically indistinguishable. I don't know if that extends to objective measures of dysfunction, like a 2-day CPET, but it might...

This kind of reminds of the way tuberculosis was treated in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the western United States, numerous sanitariums / sanatoriums were established as fairly posh resorts where wealthy TB patients could go to get fresh air, away from the "sooty" and crowded...

About three months prior to onset, I had a fairly massive exposure to mold. I was assigned to move some huge bolts of fabric in a beachfront warehouse attic space. They smelled of mold and the air was thick with "dust" (mold spores?) when I moved them. I remember thinking that this was probably...

I suspect that the "media blitz" is probably the result of the paper being published in PNAS. It's the second most cited journal in the world (after Nature) and health & science reporters no doubt search each issue closely looking for something of general interest to write about. ME/CFS, with...

Even more to the point, can we be sure that the patient PBMC's weren't sent a newsletter telling them how to respond to the test? ;)

From the chart, the ME/CFS samples seem OK at first, but, after half an hour to an hour they "give up" quite abruptly (the nearly vertical red lines) as though the cells have run out of something (ATP?).

FWIW, what I think is going on in this chart is that sodium has been added to the samples prior to any of the measurements shown. Sodium is a conductor, so it has lowered the resistance to the flow of electricity (the impedance) in the serum to the level of about "1" in all the samples. As time...

My understanding is that this test measures impedance, i.e. the resistance to the flow of electrical current in the nano-needle. ETA: In Dr. Davis' presentation, it looks like the healthy control values are normalized to 1 and all the ME/CFS values are higher than that. The chart below is more...

FWIW, here is a link to the 1986 "New York Magazine" article which may have been the first appearance in print of the word "yuppie" in connection with ME/CFS. The article was called "The Hollywood Blahs," and it says "It's been called the Yuppie Plague, but those who have it aren't laughing."...

Not to be picky, but McEvedy and Beard's paper was published in 1970, though it was about the Royal Free outbreak in 1955. Likewise, the earliest example of the term "Yuppie" being invoked in relation to the illness that I'm aware of comes from a 1986 article in New York Magazine (not the New...

This whole tactic of accusing "campaigners" of "silencing" scientists reminded me of this photo... (quote mine). "My friends, I tell you I am being SILENCED!!!" [This is Douglas Fairbanks Sr. at a 1918 war bond rally in New York City.]

I probably should have said that the link to the Reuters story was removed. "The Drudge Report" is, for the most part, an aggregation of links to news stories at other sites. It is U.S. centric, but covers global stories as well. To quote Wikipedia... Despite its rightward tilt and tendency...

According to this story, Enterovirus-D68 has been confirmed in one patient, but... http://www.startribune.com/virus-identified-as-a-cause-of-paralyzing-condition-in-minnesota-children-acute-flaccid-myelitis/508757812/

About six or seven hours after it was linked on The Drudge Report, the Reuters story was removed (unlinked). Interestingly the two seemingly related "silencing" stories remain. All the links on that site are ephemeral; it's just interesting that the Reuters story was removed relatively quickly...

Cognitive Bunny Therapy (CBT) helped me overcome my angora-phobia. [Any resemblance to a certain psychiatrist is entirely coincidental.]