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If we call him AL because it looks like Artificial Intelligence if we use a lower case L!!!

That’s a brilliant point. Skimming his Gluten book, you’ve got a nugget of genuine medical issue/chrones disease, then you have the societal concerns about gluten, the wellness stuff, people avoiding gluten who don’t need to, etc This is similar but with LC (and then ME/CFS) as the genuine...

If they did, it hasn't impaired her carrying out even more <checks notes> research

Starmer resigned as PM. Politics gossip is that Wes Streeting wants the Chancellor job. In any case he won’t be Health Secretary much longer.

What is important is how the “tribe” react and spin, says man in different tribe doing the same.

Also because I love an internet meme

The trouble with AL “not a scientist” commenting on trials is he’s trying to tell us that “trial line of enquiry produced a negative, science people say it was a bad trial” which is what we in the UK tend to call “doing a wee wee on my leg and trying to tell me it’s raining”. How the sausage...

It’s the study of signs and structure and how meaning is created. And it was really big in the 70s* when “meme” as a cultural equivalent of a gene was coined by Dawkins. *which is about the level AL’s argument is operating on, whereas we’re all on the internet in 2026 having spent decades...

That intro (eta - by the podcaster) is very hyperbolic, and I personally feel AL uses hyperbolic language as part of his narative device. Also- Me-rail The reason why AL’s piece reminds me of the Revolutionary Communist Party (that RCP, not the other one) isn’t a coincidence. If you were/are...

I need to look into the definitions of “science/biomedical” as well as “community” I suspect part of the issue is a reductive “science has been looking at LC (and further, ME) and turned up nothing” joined with “and the “community only want science and won’t countenance anything else” 1.What...

I want to pick up on a comment @Sean made about calling for investigations into threats made to researchers etc. because it’s actually a really important point. Even on a basic level, bullying thrives in the dark until a lift is shine on it. And most people in the world are reasonable and don’t...

And this is exactly the lack of empathy, and/or privilege I refer to. We know all of this and we’ve seen it, lived it. So to discuss “but what about just/only/purely/specifically looking at the argument AL makes” is first order and we can’t stay playing in that sandpit because we cannot unknow...

This book, I would buy!!!!!

i don’t think he is looking at it through a Catholic lens or even an Abrahamic religion, he studied East Asian religion. But as a Professor of Religion he is unencumbered by the background Sociology, Politics, Feminism, Semiology etc and free to riff on naratives, communities, science, health...

I was surprised by my own reaction which by the way is in part down to ME. I didn’t just have “feelings” I also knew that I found the article itself annoying, dull, pointless and disingenuous but I couldn’t say why. I needed AI/ChatGPT to help me unfurl the thoughts I couldn't verbalise, I...

We can recognise his privileged position in being able to take a position outside looking in and also just view a narrow aspect through his Professor of religion (or interested in the intersection of religion/health/something, I forget his blurb) and further, to appear online on socials, on...

I have been talking with AI about why I don’t like the article. What we have surmised is that part of the issue is a mismatch in intellectual traditions. Much of the discussion focuses on how patient communities construct narratives, identities and shared interpretations. That’s a valid line of...

I hope UVA haven’t given him tenure

Then tells everyone the party was full of boring partygoer types who just wanted to drink beer and chat about blah blah whatever, so he had to get out of there.

I think for me I find it hard to be interested in his argument because it’s the same old wine in not even new bottles. Then I just look at him and think that his behaviour is more fascinating than what he is saying. I suppose he probably sees as an ad hominem attack or something. I’m not...