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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.]

I have no idea if it was linked there before , but now, dated April 18th and headed with the addendum "(Adds David Tuller's academic position at Berkeley)," a link to it has been posted as if it were new at "The Drudge Report." http://news.trust.org/item/20190418094429-rl1l2 ETA: It looks...

I wonder what an invalid weekday is.

Oddly enough, when I Googled "Lost in Space" images, I got this...

Oh, yes.. ...and there's the 1991 "Simpsons" version: Part One and Part Two.

If it was a great deal of water, there might be a connection. I've seen several sources that say drinking more that 0.8 to 1.0 liters of water per hour of can reduce your blood's sodium concentration enough to cause hyponatremia (low sodium). The intake threshold probably varies somewhat due to...

Re: Sweating Among the symptoms listed in the CCC is: I had night sweats early on, but then later I developed a sort of overreaction to changes in temperature. If I walked from a mildly cold outdoor environment to a warmer indoor location, I would start to sweat - a lot - for about half an...

I wonder if this "particle" might also be found in healthy controls, just at a lower concentration. "The dose makes the poison," as Paracelsus said.* (*Yes, I had to look that up.)

I don't think Ron Davis has given a size estimate other than to say "it's big." My impression when he talks about breaking it apart and seeing what it's made of is that he's talking about a "particle" made up of many molecules as opposed to just one large molecule. I found some quotes on the...

I'm not sure. Filtering the blood of ME patients until the signal disappeared would be a different experiment.

@roller* Going by the chart below, there were at least 20 patients and twenty controls. It looks like all of the CFS patients produced a signal and none of the controls. According to Dr. Davis, the odds that this does not represent a real difference between the two groups is a billion to one...

At about 16:15, Ron Davis talks about trying to figure out what's in the blood serum that distinguishes patients from controls on the nano-needle impedance test: The section where he begins to talk about the paper is here at 13:30.

If you mean that the tachycardia of POTS may be an anxiety/stress response to the symptom of OI, whatever the cause, I'd argue against that for the simple reason that, for me at least, the tachycardia would precede OI. It didn't happen to me immediately after onset, but, by three years into the...