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Furthermore, participants will be challenged to do a value-based microchoice each day, Yeah, that's the problem. We don't have enough challenges or values based choices to consider, from the macro to the micro.

Uncontrolled study, subjective self-report outcomes, coming out of Norway. All proving once again that they are doing nothing more than inducing modest changes in some patients in their questionnaire response behaviour, and puffing it up as a therapeutic benefit. The usual non-result.

Yep. We simply don't have the luxury of ignoring these views and their proponents. They are not on the fringe in the political power game, they have been and still are among the most powerful and influential of all. Until that changes and they are sent to the fringe where they belong, we have...

And proves that they do understand what robust methodology is, and hence have no excuse for not using in their own work. They are very quick to point out deficiencies in biomed studies and hypotheses. Not so much for their own psych studies. And by not so much I mean not at all.

They are going to my normal inbox (on a Gmail account).

That is the problem. The rot goes all the way to the top, with the occasional exception.

And worse. They are actively dangerous, and I am now firmly of the view that they are simply unacceptable on their own. Adequate blinding, and/or objective measures, or get out of the game. You don't. You appeal to those with power over them. The approaches you are suggesting were tried for...

So, a bio-psycho-social framework, that uses only psychometric testing, clearly aimed at a psychosomatic emphasis, and not a single biophysical measure of any kind. Rigged much?

Now there's a irony.

Keeps them employed, in power, and feeling special. Patients be damned.

yet is associated with substantial psychological distress I wonder why that might be. Couldn't possibly be that patients do in fact have a very serious and disabling unexplained physical disease that is being endlessly psycho-babblised and blamed on the patients' attitudes and 'psychology'...

+1 Randomisation is necessary, but not even close to being enough on its own.

"Perhaps we are dealing with a kind of social long Covid" That's a joke seeing as the psychosomatic cult is one of the most socially manufactured pseudo-explanations of them all.

Rate things are going the AI bubble isn't going to make it to the end of the year before it implodes and at least a trillion dollars of investment money goes up the chimney.

6) Many entries also highlighted disbelief towards ME/CFS by social acquaintances. People didn't fully understand the impact of the disease. It is often worse than that. They don't want to understand. There are few conditions where ableism is so systemic, overwhelming, entrenched, and cruel.

Sorry to hear this, @Hoopoe. This kind of sadly all too common abusive nonsense is exactly why patients should have the right to record therapy sessions, and to use them in complaints, disciplinary, and legal proceedings. For medico-legal assessments a recording should be mandatory, and...

The fatal core flaws and dishonesty in the BPS arguments have been laid out in detail many times over, including in the formal literature and submissions and reports. All the BPS cult are doing is shamelessly recycling the same shit over and over, louder and louder, and claiming this is legit...

I see no mention of efficacy. All the form of science and none of the content. This is just marketing. Straight propaganda. Justifying an already failed system installed way ahead of the evidence. That is exactly what it is happening. All because a few gargantuan egos can't admit they and the...

In response, Berry says it’s not for us to say whether an individual would benefit from this improved mobility. “I think that’s open to interpretation.” What a gutless cop-out. :mad:

Second of two done. :thumbup: --------------- $32, 741 raised. 43% of total. 13 days left. Seems to be picking up pace. :)