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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 time when there were no positive independent trials, and no negative BPS trials.

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

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. Insurance is another driver: According to the Texas Department of Insurance, fraud that includes malingering costs the US insurance industry...

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 that wikipedia thinks that a psychoanalytic theory is an established medical entity, just referencing DSM...

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 a table of excluded studies (maybe online somewhere?), but I expect @Snow Leopard is right about Lien. They searched until June 2020, hence Davenport...

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 focused on young adults than the usual suspects such as malnutrition.

And the article is in Persian, so it's hard to see whether they bothered to diagnose CFS. http://www.ceciranj.ir/article_109277_63f3bb1e388889aeeef87c5834c9db95.pdf?lang=en

@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 attracting funding for its campaigns. Also, since a lot of the thread is about whether orgs have membership or not, some pwME I speak to are clear they don't...

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 believe #MEAction has split from it recently...

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 of the history of conflicts, betrayals, splintering, new betrayals etc. Also, I'm aware that the psychiatric takeover of ME caused a lot of those...

Just an educated guess - based on known associations between the Guardian, SMC, SW & Goldacre. But this really does belong in the "Who is SW?" thread. Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity. He always has an alibi, and one or...

Thanks for the detail, @AR68. Possibly the understatement of the millennium. Maybe to be discussed on the "Who is SW?" thread.

@Barry 100%