A certain level of tolerance and even encouragement of the psychosomatic paradigm is beneficial for government entities. But some of the people...
Their twitter account is https://twitter.com/BristolCCAH It looks like they've been supporting Crawley's quackery for a while, and it's pretty...
Agreed. Most remaining members of the MEGA PAG expressed a lot of enthusiasm about MEGA. Which would suggest that some of them are perhaps not the...
Nope. Bristol just seems determined to morph into a blatant quackery-oriented university :-P I'm sure they can use the Lightning Process to change...
Hasn't AfME's ethos already been soundly rejected with detailed explanations by many people? What exactly are you calling for which does not...
Refusing treatment should never be pathologized. It's the explicit right of all patients, as NICE keeps emphasizing while trying to dodge the...
That's the definition of illegal, so there's nothing wrong with your translation of it :-P
I don't think "relapse" is completely accurate, but only because a relapse is more serious than PEM (usually), so I don't find it objectionable or...
And we shouldn't sink to the level of silencing dissenting voices. AfME might be a threat to ME patients through their habit of supporting awful...
Contrary opinions are intolerable?
Well we can't make AfME stop existing, so we might as well try talking to them in case it helps their understanding of the disease and scientific...
IV bicarbonate can help when used in hospitals, so people drink it on that basis. But it's very unlikely that drinking it has any effect. My GP...
The gold standard would be testing CSF lactate levels, since that tends to be chronically elevated if there's a problem.
This is the UK site for home testers of the brand that I use: https://www.lactatelevel.co.uk/contents/en-uk/d27_blood_analyzer.html It's also a...
Yup, mine was elevated too. I have a home-tester now, and it's typically elevated in the evening if I've been too active, and is often followed by...
The citations in the wikipedia article relating to pseudoscience, scientific criticism, and lack of efficacy would be a good place to start: [9]...
But that is what scientific research does for us. Instead of relying on anecdotal evidence or case reports, the broader picture is looked at with...
Yeah, that wouldn't be too bad. Unfortunately the NHS doesn't seem interested in providing that unless it comes with a side of BS or psychotherapy :-P
It might help to focus on describing what you can and can't do, and the consequences it has, both regarding symptoms without one and regarding...
We end up with some very good ones too :-) Which is why I wouldn't have a blanket exclusion.
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