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    Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

    Hopefully, they'll realize that the best way to stand up for science against antiscience agitators is to go ahead and withdraw the review.
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    Dysania article,”inability to get out of bed in mornings” mentions CFS

    [And seems to cause psych majors to leave uncorrected typos in four-year-old articles.] I imagine it's especially unlikely since neither "Dysania" nor "Clinomania" are listed in either the DSM or the ICD. On the other hand, neither is "Drapetomania" - the 19th century "mental illness" that...
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    Cochrane backtracking

    I may be repeating something already noted elsewhere, but why would you "temporarily withdraw" something in order to allow the authors time to "adequately address the feedback received?" Why not say, "You've got X days to answer our questions or we're withdrawing your review"? It reads to me...
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    Your OMF gift tripled this week!

    So, I've been a bit confused about this... What is the distinction between donating to The Open Medicine Foundation and donating directly to The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Center (CFSRC) at Stanford?
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    Guardian 'diabetes is biopsychosocial'

    I'm waiting for the headline: "Biopsychosocial Attribution Found to be a Biopsychosocial Condition."
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    Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

    The earliest paper of Leonard Jason's that I can find on CFS is from 1993... so, he's been at it for at least 25 years. :thumbup:
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    Article by Fiona Fox (SMC) for the Revolutionary Communist Party (c. 1996)

    I can't imagine why people who have voiced such certainty about their own political beliefs would be so keen to back the idea that psychiatry can determine "correct beliefs" from "false beliefs." I mean, it's like something you used to hear was going on in the old Soviet Union. Oh, wait...
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    Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

    [All bolding mine] I believe that clearly makes it one scientist involved, speaking for herself, not scientists.
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    Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

    "Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in." - GK Chesterton Of course, it doesn't always work. :)
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    Stanford Community Symposium 2018: Phair, Metabolic traps, Tryptophan trap

    Speculation: Just out of curiosity, I wondered if sleep deprivation might increase tryptophan. I guess I was thinking that the body might try to force sleep by producing more (if it can produce more). Or perhaps tryptophan is "consumed" during sleep - so its level would rise if you didn't...
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    Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

    "The best thing I’ve done from a sociological and community standpoint was to embrace the activists. Instead of rejecting them, I listened to them. I remember looking out a window and people on the lawn of the NIH were throwing smoke bombs. The Montgomery County Police were ready to arrest them...
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    Trial By Error: The Psychosomatic Conference’s Pathetic Response (17 Oct 2018)

    I would hate to speculate about such a conversation, but... "Hey, the University just got a $9.6 million grant from the NIH to search for the biological causes of ME/CFS. Thanks for inviting speakers here who probably think we should give it back. That's great publicity for us."
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    Proprioception Dexterity Balance

    Seems like an effect like the "tilted hallway" I posted above might be caused by a problem with the 4th cranial nerve, aka the "Trochlear Nerve." Unlike the other eleven, multi-functional cranial nerves, the only thing the 4th cranial nerve controls is the muscle that rotates the eye around...
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    Can a Chronic BPPV w/a History of Trauma be the Trigger of Symptoms in Vestibular Migraine, ME/CFS & Whiplash Associated Disorders?, 2018, Carsten

    And assuming they are talking about physical trauma/injury leading to vestibular problems (which can happen), how do they explain the "epidemics"?
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    Can a Chronic BPPV w/a History of Trauma be the Trigger of Symptoms in Vestibular Migraine, ME/CFS & Whiplash Associated Disorders?, 2018, Carsten

    I assume by "with a history of trauma" they mean something along the lines of a physical injury, like a blow to the head or some other kinetic force on the body. I really don't recall experiencing anything like that in the months prior to onset - and it's the kind of thing that I, or my...
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    Protocol Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in Norwegian outpatients with mild to severe ME/CFS: protocol (...), 2024, Skjevling et al. Comeback Study

    So, do they actually destroy the gut's microbiome prior to FMT, or do they just empty the gut? This is kind of glossed over in what I've read and I'm not certain that they are the same thing. FMT can frequently cure C. difficile infection, but C. diff is not normally present in the gut...
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    Can a Chronic BPPV w/a History of Trauma be the Trigger of Symptoms in Vestibular Migraine, ME/CFS & Whiplash Associated Disorders?, 2018, Carsten

    Well, my first ME symptom was an acute attack of "vertigo," and balance problems continued to be a major symptom for years afterward. Still, it's going to take a whole lot of convincing for me to accept that all the subsequent symptoms were just downstream effects from a problem of the...
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    LP coach on research, Lightning Process and ME (Norway)

    Can you imagine telling AIDS patients, in the era before effective treatments were available, that their activism was an indicator that they were not all that sick? [It wouldn't shock me if that happened, though.]
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    LP coach on research, Lightning Process and ME (Norway)

    They divided the number of messages posted on a selection of Norwegian health forums in one week by the number of thousands of people in Norway who have the condition. This seems to be how they are arriving at ME having "more than ten times the relative activity of any other disorder or...
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