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Quite right. And then taking a sledgehammer to your own ideas, and welcoming others to do so, to see how they withstand rigorous examination. From the closing words of @JenB's TED talk: At the moment we don't know, we have some observations and some anecdotes, which is great. Present those...

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. EDIT: Although it could have been an interview with an American held prisoner in Vietnam, so don't quote me. Whatever, the experiment has been run more than enough times, and generally stoics tend to out-survive optimists.

Does being optimistic really stop other people killing themselves? As far as I'm aware positive thinkers are the first to top themselves when their delusions meet reality, stoics have a much better chance of enduring continued hardship (don't mean to be flippant - there was that famous book...

It has always been a very draining waste of time in the past.

Wonderful that Jen has managed to get her life back. Can't help wondering whether she had a blood transfusion as part of any of her surgeries?

Quite right, I'm glad to see doctors who were offering rituximab being called out, they should have waited until the trials had determined whether it really worked or not instead of jumping on a lucrative bandwagon and taking large amounts of money selling false hope to desperate sufferers. I...

The article is very dodgy on the number of people doing this, but I suppose it's going to become a thing we all have to talk about. I think ME groups are pretty safe from this (I suspect) very rare behaviour ... I can't imagine any self-respecting illness faker hanging around the ME community...

Well I liked it. Healthy people will be able to watch it without any issues, and some of them will like the London Grammar style soundtrack. I really enjoy listening to depressing music and found it a fitting accompaniment - it's not as if there's a lack of jolly stuff for happy people to watch...

I have all the other normal ME stuff you describe, but not the working on something for a day and being unable to recall anything about it thing, even when prompted.

Oh well that's all right then, let's just pick two people to trust and leave it there. I wonder who these trustworthy experts were, and why the editor chose them?

The zombie statistic that Professor Chew-Graham summoned into existence in an editorial in the British Journal of General Practice, for which Professor Roger Jones is responsible, is two years old. I shall now fall upon my sword in a flagrant breach of Godwin's Law - would Roger Jones conclude...

Am I the only one playing "find the new splendid word/turn of phrase @dave30th can't resist putting into each article"? As in "Promiscuous" etc? I wonder what it'll be this time? Got it!

I thought this was a good article up to: I wish that had been the last sentence. But then woo and fundraising, as ever.

n=2. Mine followed me down the corridor and hit me in the knees with a hammer.

It's normally not a good idea to feed trolls, but in this case it may be worth it just for the entertainment value, and to illustrate what we're up against. A competition seems to have broken out amongst the BPS crew to see who can make the biggest arse of themselves on social media.

Mixing whatever line of bullshit you want to sell with a few statements of the bleedin' obvious and some sensible and helpful comments is not without precedent, in fact it is a technique straight out of the charletan's handbook. Trying to work out what SW believes is a fairly pointless exercise...

Waiting around 30 years to sort it out properly seems to be the British way - Hillsborough, Bloody Sunday ... So the PACE inquiry should publish its findings in about 2042.

I misread that as "notjustified.com" and thought it was quite a good name for an ME blog. That's two odd misreadings today so far.

I misread that as "BPS status ego". I'm misreading things more and more lately, with odd results.

Take your pick: Have you read the paper? If yes: You obviously haven't understood the paper. If you have: These points have all been comprehensively addressed before. If that doesn't work: Your view is due to (insert malevolent motive here). I'm prepared to be corrected, but I think that's...