My assumption is that during the meeting I will have a reasonable chance to voice one important point and perhaps one or two more if very lucky. I...
If there is one I guess it is to tick the box of public involvement. But that is not such a silly objective and with luck it will mean that some...
A very interesting thought. I am not sure that it would ever be taken on. You would need something that gives people the same sort of nausea as...
It was not that they were not established as clinical tests but that they were not established as reproducible research findings that we can take...
I think it is likely that ME/CFS symptoms are due to whatever is causing RP - i.e. part of that illness. It seems to me a good example of how...
I can't say that I really recognise any of those as being established findings. I worry when lists like this are put up as if they were agreed...
It looks fairly dire. The opening bureaucratic talks will take an hour. There will then be table discussions but it seems there will be no general...
You may not be aware that I am a retired professor of immunology, @Seven. NK function tests are well established but nobody knows what they...
You are right that there is a failure of accountability, but it is interesting to see where it occurs. All consultant physicians pretty much do...
The point that Valentijn is making is that whatever reaction you are describing it is not a 'herx'. Herx is short for Jarisch-Herxheimer and is a...
T helper cells (CD4+) are specialised in that they recognise peptide fragments of antigens mostly derived from outside cells, that are presented...
As a fun introduction to the basic ideas I agree this is pretty clever. My only reservation, for those who might want to try to use it to...
I think you may have a rosy picture of what scientists are like these days. Almost everyone in science is motivated by promotion and money -...
Of course people who do not think outside the conventional dogma box achieve nothing because science is all about thinking outside that box, and...
I think he is right to point out that there is probably more evidence for schizophrenia being a neurological disease than ME/CFS. That seems to...
I cannot see any misrepresentation in the article -just an account of what has happened. David Tuller did write a blog. The CDC has changed its...
There is actually a gain of truth in Wessely's argument in that letter. But by golly does he screw up on the way he develops that argument. And...
Actually the opposite applies, really. Unless you see patients every week it is very difficult to know what the real questions are in medical...
"One of the core principles of the “Recovery Movement”, currently the dominant paradigm in managing long term conditions and disability, is...
I seem to remember after being interviewed on the phone that I thought the result would be a standard spin piece. The author seemed to find it...
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