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Vaccination, receiving drug treatment within three days of acute infection, and avoiding repeated infections are the greatest modifiable influences of long COVID development, decreasing risk by up to 63 % under modelled scenarios. :thumbsup:

So the 'functional' part is...?

Yep. Takes two to have a rational debate. But it only takes one to make it irrational.

Very revealing. Should be more than enough to convict them and get them removed from the whole game. Should be. That is exactly what it is. There is no nice way to say this stuff, and we should not try to sugar coat it for anybody.

Yes, the gaslighting is not for our benefit.

Not only has nothing changed in the BPS school, they are becoming more resistant to change and admitting error. 'It didn't work the first 3454 times, therefore we must try it again but even harder and with more conviction this time.' :mad:

Over-medicalisation and over-diagnosis are detrimental to patients. And over-psychologising isn't? The problem is inaccurate diagnosis and inappropriate treatment, whether medical or psychological.

That is largely true for the whole mental health field, IMO. They are as powerful and influential as ever, yet the mental health of society is not obviously better overall than it was previously, far as I can tell, and is even arguably declining. Either they do not understand mental health...

Renegade Research How appropriate. --------- Sock potato. Pfft. Just wait until you see the clear benefit demonstrated in my experiment on polar bear repelling rocks. No a single polar bear has been seen here since we started using them. The fact I live in the tropics and no polar bears...

Must be some mighty powerful woo if it can reverse causality.

Explain-a-matic™ Just feed in any data on health condition and it will say the answer is FND.

This.

Not even that, all we can conclude is that some patients report feeling better about it. As is tradition they have failed to collect data that enables us to distinguish between merely modifying questionnaire response behaviour and actual improvement in the underlying condition. Not going to...

From the editorial: How do they know this? It might be, but the science is nowhere near being able to state it with such certainty. For very good reason. Decades on and there is still no confirmed treatment, let alone cure. Also think the use of the term 'feeling' is highly inappropriate and...

Preventative measures are all we have for now. There are certainly no treatments, let alone cures, once you have got it. So I say crank them up, big time. Encourage masks, air filters and better ventilation in buildings, social distancing (within practical reason), hand hygiene, staying at home...

They actually have contradictory views. When patient self-report supports their interpretation it should be accepted without question, even if any objective evidence says the opposite. When it doesn't [support their interpretation] it should be ignored, or used as evidence that patient...

The number of hypotheses, and the degree and intensity of debate, about any issue are inverse indexes of how much knowledge and understanding we actually have. In medicine specifically, I would also add the frequency that it is labelled complex and multi-factorial, best explained by a...

According to the findings, there is no generally valid coupling between the oxygen content measured by MRI and neuronal activity. Interesting. :nerd:

I agree with Andy. ME/CFS is the best compromise from a list of bad choices, and I see little benefit, and considerable risks, in trying to get it renamed until we have a better handle on what is going on under the hood.

Liked, but didn't reveal the spoilers as have not seen the film yet.