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It wouldn’t affect the value of this research much if they omitted the seng and just speculated about gin.

London Borough of Mordor has replied surprisingly quickly to a blue badge application, and promises a telephone interview with an outfit called Dependability at a random point in the next 28 days. Has anyone else had one of these and know what they will be asking? Presumably this firm is heavily...

Anger on social media is a much broader problem. That’s being addressed by algorithmic nudges from platforms to either ask posters to reconsider, or to restrict the surfacing and promotion of angry content. Those techniques are often ineffective but are improving fast. Longer term, social...

A long while ago I was wheeling a toddler around an oriental food court and retail complex in northwest London. She was recovering from chicken pox and was heavily pock-marked. Passing a traditional chinese medicine shop, I decided to pop in for my own amusement and test out a school of practice...

What’s the etiquette on this forum regarding expressions of scepticism towards, well, pretty much everything in the above? Presumably it’s not being posted just so that it can be mocked.

Being able to work as an indication of severity is skewed by WFH becoming the norm. There must be quite a few people who are housebound and just about holding down a job. Whether it’s a good idea to do so is moot.

I’d be much more interested in whether psychoactives could do something about pain and hypersensitivity. As @Peter Trewhitt says, masking fatigue is a terrible idea. Masking the constant low-level toxic sensory fizz would be brilliant, though, and a disassociative drug would make marginally as...

Yeah, it’s essentially a letter, and there may well be a special term, but it’s definitely not an editorial. Wasn’t it the ME Association twitter which was praising a pwME the other day for pushing herself through a daily half mile hike? If not, apologies to their socials team, but if so, this...

An editorial is the editor’s ex cathedra opinion. The difference between news, comment and editorial is taken pretty seriously in all periodicals.

That’s a really poor Twitter gaffe at a time when it would have been very helpful for their response to have been retweeted far and wide. Not impressive.

Ah, that makes sense! Thanks.

That’s interesting. Is that how the Lancet works? Or will they print anything that meets Horton’s editorial standards and happens to have been submitted? Clearly Horton comes out of this badly, as he so often does, but I don’t know if this correctly characterises the editorial process. It might...

Literally all of their health and science coverage does just that. Not sure if the copy is written up by interns or AI these days.

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence and thrice is enemy action, as a Bond villain once said. If Trudie Chalder gets a guest opinion slot in tomorrow’s Grauniad, I’ll start to worry.

I can’t believe that anyone launching a serious lobbying campaign would rope in the Daily Express. Probably just a function of a very small news desk’s stochastic selection process for published papers to fill in the space between Diana, meteorological scares, and Brexiteering.

I’m not sure that’s fair. A lot of papers are written for a very small community of practitioners who share the same terms of reference. That doesn’t mean that the authors are deliberately trying to exclude muggles, or to show off to them, or to obscure a lack of real insight. It just means that...

John Diamond’s memoir, C, based on his Times columns, is particularly good on the language of bravery and struggle against cancer. Your blogs are reminding me of it.

Which is why empirical research beats lazy assumptions. I withdraw the comment. I’m just very grateful for the anecdata obtained from my wife and daughters’ caring over the last year.

There may be specific annoyances for men with ME, but gender norms being what they are, people with chronic illnesses are likely much better off with wives than with husbands.

Yep, hence the Groucho club.