https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/28/long-covid-the-patient-whos-made-an-app-to-track-its-symptoms
It's pretty basic, but sorting trials into those done by BPS adherents versus independent replications ought to be interesting. I can remember a...
He always reminds me of Widmerpool in Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. How long till it's Lord Wessely?
Not sure if this info has been posted here or elsewhere [MEDIA]
This would be very useful, Chris, but you've listed A New Clinical Entity? (1956) twice.
I think it goes back earlier still. Malingering has been suspected in the military throughout history, and still gets a court martial in the US....
A critical paper [eta] by Fishbain attributes 1ary and 2ary "gain" to Freud: https://www.jpain.org/article/S1058-9139(05)80274-8/pdf Interesting...
It's a more than a suspicion. They have said that they conduct trials to show their treatments work.
Reminds me of Oscar Wilde's quip about literary critics on Hamlet - are they mad or just pretending to be?
They were thorough and picked up over 200 studies, so they used strict inclusion criteria as a filter - see the flowchart in the text. I don't see...
Thanks for the link. Shows how long it is since I looked at the Spanish pandemic, as I hadn't come across this one. It's plausible, and better...
And the article is in Persian, so it's hard to see whether they bothered to diagnose CFS....
@Mithriel The 1918 flu epidemic hit healthy adults (age 20-40) really badly. Nobody knows why.
O.M.G. FFS.
Don't think you did, but yes that's always an argument against large orgs such as Oxfam. On the other hand, Oxfam is highly successful in...
Would be nice, but Forward ME has been around for a few years and the comments from a year ago in this thread didn't seem very hopeful. And I...
An old discussion, but the issue of competing and overlapping UK charities and membership orgs won't go away without active measures. I know some...
Just an educated guess - based on known associations between the Guardian, SMC, SW & Goldacre. But this really does belong in the "Who is SW?"...
Thanks for the detail, @AR68. Possibly the understatement of the millennium. Maybe to be discussed on the "Who is SW?" thread.
@Barry 100%
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