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This thread focuses the information about the Australian situation in David Tuller's recent blog. It has been split from this thread which focuses on the news about Esther Crawley in David Tuller's recent blog...

AfME have been on PR for a long time and they have never taken advantage of that. As someone else has said before, they acted as usual, tried to interact a little and fled away when questions started to become somewhat challenging. (it's so much easy to be in the safe space of their own FB page...

Caroline C. Kingdon, Erinna W. Bowman, Hayley Curran, Luis Nacul, Eliana M. Lacerda https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs41669-018-0071-6

Wow. If there are no changes in the final report, that is a very very encouraging news. Especially given the number of psychobabblers in the Netherlands. That makes the German guidelines produced not a long time ago look even more stupid and disconnected than before...

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/893766 See also this thread about Dr. Bateman's Summary of Clinicians' Summit March 2-3, 2018

I don't know if Ponting will manage to change things radically, but he seems willing to engage with patients:

Another article Royal College of Psychiatrists leaders accused of 'dangerous' and 'misleading' comments on antidepressant withdraw http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16077230.Psychiatrists_accused_of__dangerous__and__misleading__comments_on_antidepressant_withdrawal/?ref=fbshr And Sir Simon...

OMG, the explainations given by the psychiatrist at around 1h20 are just so unbelievably bad. Always the weird comparisons with the way our brain tricks us sometimes for a few seconds/minutes as an explaination for long life symptoms. The same dualistic shit about the mind and body being linked...

It starts at 1h05. The first patient talking was in fact suffering from depression, and got better with antidepressants and CBT. I think this is the very type of cases that makes doctors think MUS is a thing, when it's all about undiagnosed textbook depression...

Oups... sorry (added to my previous post)

https://www.nationalelfservice.net/diagnosis/risk-factors/functional-neurological-disorder-conversion-disorder/ Reminder: Mark Edwards is leading an imaging study on ME/CFS to see if a common mecanism can be found with Functional neurological disorder. He has also (successfuly) promoted the...

Teaser...

Well, at least France is not producing and exporting a massive amount of psych bullshit on ME (our old guard psychoanalists are too occupied with their own Scheiße on autism), but patients receive their fair lot of psychological weird theories...

Well, in term of ME research, that is really true, as there is no research in France, appart from a handfull of small studies..

Another article: 'Medical Symptoms That Medicine Can't Hear': A Conversation With Maya Dusenbery https://psmag.com/social-justice/medical-symptoms-that-medicine-cant-hear

There are two issues here: one is the structure of the health care and the second is that of health professionals. The design of the French health care is IMO a good compromise between private and public. Nearly all GPs are independent workers, you pay them, and you are then reimbursed (70% of...

For the first time in France, there is an opinion piece written by a PwME in a mainstream newspaper, Le Figaro (conservative), with not an inch of psychobabble in it! I quite disagree with the author on one point: he is presenting an idealistic picture of what's happening in the UK and US, and...

New letter from @dave30th to Archives of Disease in Childhood: Trial By Error: My Exchange With Archives of Disease in Childhood http://www.virology.ws/2018/03/07/trial-by-error-my-exchange-with-archives-of-disease-in-childhood/

While I'm delighted to see Crawley out, and being replaced by Ponting, I believe for a true biomedical approach to be set up, there are still numerous obstacles to be overcome (like for example the worrying study led by Mark Edwards) Ex from the minutes: GM: Gabrielle Murphy* Edit: cross post...