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First Esther, now Moss-Morris. The BPS brigade seem to think kidney patients are their next soft target.

I had no idea that a pragmatic wager could possess the quality of truth. I live and learn.

How did I guess she's a sociologist before I even clicked through? (Clue: lots of long words, vacuous content)

Would people please stop taking personal swipes at each other and reporting each other to moderation? Any more and this thread will have to be closed for a cool-off period.

This thread has been split. All discussion regarding deletion of a member's account is now here: https://www.s4me.info/threads/deleting-an-account.2985/

I think you mean we can all leave the house now.

I'll PM you.

This would exclude the severe and those unable to regularly post, or post at all, for whom this forum might be a lifeline.

I was disappointed when Lynne Truss chose Eats, Shoots and Leaves as the title of her book on spelling and punctuation in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves The reason I'm disappointed is that she didn't dare use the original version of the joke, which ended with the...

Oh dear, I didn't know that. Oh well, too late now. Is it common knowledge that Edelgard doesn't even have ME/CFS, but a mast cell disorder?

Clueless.

typo or a new nickname?

I don't think that's a fair characterisation. All a bit ad hominem isn't it? When I'm not crying bullshit or being closed-minded and subjective and claiming I'm the opposite, I like to think I can be quite a reasonable chap. I am willing to consider it, and am waiting for someone to provide or...

Well that's true, in a way.

Should we not first find a paper that clearly shows that anything about it has been objectively demonstrated? Until something more than anecdotal evidence is provided, there's nothing to disprove. Surely those making the claims have the burden of proof? I've never heard anything above...

We would need a safeguard against her always agreeing with herself and replicating her own studies. What if she was ever wrong about something?

I'm a bit concerned that a vulnerable person who hasn't thought much so far about having such a voice, might create one and imbue it with certain characteristics (critical or not, loud or soft, fast or slow, coming from X) when it is suggested to them, out of willingness to take part in the...

Complete with a short (3 minute) video from AfME featuring Julia Newton and George Purdie - which is excellent :jawdrop: EDIT: Also quotes from Charles Shepherd (I hadn't read to the end when I wrote the above).

I have seen studies showing that some of the various claims made by NLP don't stand up to scrutiny, for example the one about which way your eyes are pointing being related to how you're thinking.

I'm not very happy with the disembowling thing, and don't see how it's a helpful metaphor.