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thanks for doing all that. Quacktastic misdirection like this gets me to something that would be anger if I had the energy, but I've given up on replying to it. There was a thread on a certain other board regarding electro-hyperchondia syndrome in which one of the EHS proponents started in on...

All of the "We found X about MECFS" state this as if there is one such disease. But it seems be in part a diagnosis, including such factors and PEM, and part dead-end file for "stuff we can't diagnose". Thus, I think any assumption that we all have the same disease is ill-founded. It would be...

I’m glad you made it back. Were I an employer in need of staff, I’d rank an honorable discharge well above a typical college degree. The overuse of civilian contractors in the second Gulf war is a story that seems to never get told.

What? The food industry has mind control? I realize you are not advocating for that point of view. it’s amovie plot, not reality. Food scarcity was the norm for the entirety of human existence until the last blink of history. We are not made to have more than enough food available more than...

Derrida and Foucault were quite the working salt of the earth types. That is if you believe that the words work, salt, and earth have no fixed meaning.

I don’t think they need any justification. Pointing out that a full-time paid faculty positions and journals intertwined with them publish, in full seriousness, papers about the patriarchical rape culture of dog parks - among the dogs – requries no apology. Absorbing resources that should go...

“I spend every Monday being confronted with this crap.” Where are you in your place, I would be forced to cancel Mondays.

Yes, in my current state that’s the level of simplicity I need.

I apologize that I have not digested the contents of the thread, but brain fog prohibits this. Thus I have a question: Is this theory based on a chronic, continuing in Terrell virus infection, or is it a theory of a hit and run infection and susequent chronic condition?

“The NIH has more than doubled its funding of ME/CFS.” 2x(Effectively nothing) = (Pretty well nothing)

@Mithriel Goes beautifully with food though, and a few such concoctions are (or were) delicious on their own.

You just gave me an idea for a new line of health supplements. Pity I don’t have the energy or natural talent for flimflam to pull that off.

@Adrian “Wasn't there someone who suggested alcohol intolerance would be a good diagnostic marker for ME.” Somewhere I think one or more lists have been compiled with a myriad of somewhat common symptoms. I think our symptoms are sort of like the results of bad ground in a car is electrical...

Unless you have a diet of rocks or perhaps metals refined from said rocks, you are eating organic food.

Most of medicine wants to give its best, most people went into it because they had a desire to heal and help, they could have gone on management track instead. That’s by far the mqjority. Some just don’t care, etc. etc. I had a little bit of the latter experience as well.

You make an excellent point. Some errors disappear in our system as well, and the problem is far from trivial. I had that experience myself, but was alone and too brain-fogged to follow up. OTOH, when you have something as complex and subtle as a mammal, never mind a human which is broken in...

Dr. Google has also said that we have Yuppie Flu, are narcissistic, have a hysterical disorder for which we need CBT and GET. The npr piece and a hundred others were simplifications of one journal article, which itself was done via aggregation of existing data rather than direct observation...

That’s statistic gets thrown around quite a bit. It has the feel of Facebook wisdom. Think about it for a moment. Consider several major coroner ‘s categories: all cancers together, all heart attacks, all respiratory failure, all accidents lumped together - car crashes, elderly falling in the...

With precise enough testing, you can find a scary chemical in anything.

Journalists will get nearly any technical subject wrong, nearly every time. Accidents happen and occasionally a correct story slips out, an event which would be much to the annoyance of the editor, if they knew.