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They're going to have a hard time spinning this as GET and activity management being "equally effective" since neither was effective and the scores didn't budge in either group. It looks like it took them 9 years since trial registration to conduct the trial and report it. My goodness. I wonder...

It's the go-to website for neurologists when confronted with patients whose symptoms they can't explain. Lots of reports on social media of being given a scribbled note with Stone's website written on it and told to go away and never come back.

Reaching out to Treadway is a good idea as long as the letter is laser focused on the misinterpretation of the EEfRT task, not the wider ME/CFS politics of the study. I don't know him but generally most civilians have been very reluctant (to put it mildly) to wade into ME/CFS waters. You could...

Government and insurance industry trying to minimise long-term disability payments by denying that the illness exists. It really is as simple as that.

Nothing to do with the journal. As an author, you can choose whether to make your paper open access or not. Keeping your paper behind a paywall is free while open access publishing is very expensive. I looked up what it costs at JNNP and it's nearly 4000 pounds. NICE obviously haven't chosen to...

Are you planning to write a letter to the editor? This right here invalidates their whole thing.

Good to hear they've no intention of doing any ill-conceived clinical trials. Yet another discrepancy between bombastic public statements and reality.

Let me guess... The study will conclude that GWI is due to effort preference.

Absolutely nothing, I hope, as long as America's version of Wessley is in charge of our thing over there.

I wouldn't trust the results of a neuropsychological test battery administered in such widely differing conditions. Maybe the LC group is the sickest and is lying in bed fiddling with it on a smartphone or tablet while the healthy functioning people are more likely to be sitting at a proper...

Language typically associated with anxiety disorders/phobias.

Yup, BPS 2.0, with some neurobabble thrown in about the insula.

His NIH job description says "he officially joined the NINDS Clinical Neurosciences Program as a Staff Clinician in 2021 heading the Interoceptive Disorders Unit" https://research.ninds.nih.gov/staff-directory/brian-t-walitt-md-mph

Yeah, because she had that sinking realisation of "I see where this is going".

IVIG has already been tried in ME/CFS and POTS and it didn’t work. My god, do these people even bother reading work that has been done before them.

One of the 17 participants has publicly shared her experience which sounds pretty harrowing. I hope she suffered no long term damage. It is a reply to this Bateman Horne Center Facebook post about the study...

Are the raw data available?

In my experience, it depends on the personal bias of the rheumatologist. Some will call this UCTD, others will call it "get out of my office and don't come back". I saw a few rheumatologists when I was a young woman with fatigue, sore joints, ulcerations, hair loss etc. and very high ANA titres...

The press coverage has been as dazed and confused as the paper itself which also has no clear message. Normally studies of such low quality would get no press coverage and would struggle to get published in a legitimate journal but thanks to the prestigious institutional affiliation of the...

Autoantibodies to nuclear envelope antigens in chronic fatigue syndrome American study with a CFS group (n=60) and two controls groups. Control group 1 consisted of allergy and depression patients. Control group 2 was healthy controls and blood donors. 68% of the ME/CFS group was ANA-positive...