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Good article. ME patients can sometimes short-term push outside our energy envelope, but as one physician said, if you do that it’s like borrowing money from the mob – you will pay and then some. There it is.

That is exactly what happens. Then clinicians pat themselves on the back for having 'successfully treated' the patient. By which they really mean they have successfully fobbed the patient off and don't have to worry about dealing with them and being confronted with the reality of having failed...

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Ugh, a giant block of text. :ill: I added paragraph breaks, though still a few formatting issues, possibly due to a machine translation. But much more readable now. Not a perfect article, still a bit of biobabble. But pretty good overall, and includes a lot of the criticisms about the whole...

Treatment-induced reporting bias That is a term we could use more.

And mainstream medicine's historical and ongoing contribution to that. Broadly speaking, yes. Certainly a damn sight more than is the current situation. But as we know from hard experience individual patients and patient advocacy groups are not always the best judge of that. It is ridiculous...

Both Coles and Woolworths supermarkets have extended their quiet hour to every weekday, from 10:30-11:30am. (Happened early last year but I missed it.)

Rehabilitation professionals are trained to work productively in uncertainty, to intervene without full mechanistic explanation, and to build clinical legitimacy around trajectories of function rather than lesions. Utter drivel.

Medicine's version of cooking the books.

They clearly are utterly incapable of change.

If so then that is a credit point for AI and/or the competence of the person writing the prompt for it. Either way it is a win, IMO.

That abstract is actually a pretty good and concise summary, especially if it is a student paper. :thumbup: Apart from the heterogeneous multisystem, and multifactorial pathophysiology bits, which or may not be true, we just don't know enough yet to confidently make such statements. Take...

A subsequent article from the same author on placebo https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/09/if-we-take-away-the-statistical-quirks-and-biases-is-there-any-placebo-effect-left/ And something related by him on broader issue of entrenched false beliefs in the healthcare...

Pleased to hear that.

Paul Glasziou Well that's a bust from the start. Across interventions, evidence certainty was mostly low to very low, and safety/feasibility varied. Yet that has never stopped him from recommending exercise before. Randomisation is sufficient control is the deceit upon which the entire...

Give it to S4ME to decide how to spend it. We couldn't possibly do a worse job than is already being done, and we will do it for free.

Nobody here will be surprised at this story, and certainly no female anywhere will. What is perhaps most disappointing is that it is continuing to happen in what is supposed to be one of the best health systems in the world. Sadly, Australia remains in the grip of the misogyny soaked...

Anti-science, par excellence. Wessely's talent and skill are basically in politics and sophistry, not science or medicine. Unfortunately he possesses that talent and skill in lavish abundance and has no hesitation to deploy them to his advantage.

Be amazed if it hadn't. Exactly. Why are the vastly greater opportunity costs not being factored in, or even mentioned?

And a lot worse than that. And sometimes not even unsaid.