me/cfs skeptic

We've written a blog post highlighting the most interesting ME/CFS studies of 2024: https://mecfsskeptic.com/2024-looking-back-on-a-year-of-me-cfs-research/ Curious to know if we missed any important ones. Twitter/Bluesky summary here:

Should we change our name: 'ME/CFS Skeptic'? Some people said it's confusing because it gives the impression that we are skeptical of ME/CFS (the illness) rather than claims and flawed research on ME/CFS. Feel free to suggest alternative names in the comments below.

"The largest study on repeated cardiopulmonary exercise testing in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) could not find a strong effect. Declines during the second exercise test are also present in many healthy controls and do not correlate well with functional disability...

Just wrote a blog about what deconditioning looks like and how it differs from ME/CFS. https://mecfsskeptic.com/what-does-deconditioning-look-like/ Interestingly the best evidence on deconditioning comes from NASA bed rest studies. Head-down bed rest was used as a proxy for the low gravity...

We've written a review of the most interesting ME/CFS studies of 2023. Would be interesting to hear if we missed any important studies that should have been included. https://mecfsskeptic.com/2023-looking-back-on-a-year-of-me-cfs-research/ This was quite a lot of material to process so there...

I've written some of my thoughts about the new reports and guidelines on ME/CFS that have been published over the past 5 years. They seem to form a new consensus, one where PEM is a required criterium for ME/CFS, where GET is no longer recommended and CBT is proposed as a supportive treatment...

In a new blog series, we will investigate how illnesses were once thought to result from stress, psychological disturbance, or deviant personality features. From the cancer-prone personality to the theory of ‘refrigerator mothers’, medicine appears to suffer from a recurrent tendency to...

New blog post in which Evelien and I analyze Canadian historian Edward Shorter’s view on ME/CFS. https://mecfsskeptic.com/from-paralysis-to-fatigue-a-critical-review-of-edward-shorters-view-on-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ Twitter summary:

"Ian Harris explains that more than half of commonly performed surgical operations may be placebos. Adequate studies using a blinded control group are essential." "Ian Harris, a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, wrote a book titled...

Happy new year everyone! I've written a new blog post with an overview of the most interesting findings of ME/CFS research in 2020. https://mecfsskeptic.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/2020-looking-back-at-a-year-of-me-cfs-research/ If you find any errors feel free to post them here and I'll try...

Looking at figures such as those from the NIH, ME/CFS is receiving far less funding than it should, based on disease burden. I would like to start a discussion on why ME/CFS is receiving so little research funding. Finding what the obstacles are, might help to improve the situation. Evelien and...

Evelien and I recently made an overview of ongoing or planned clinical trials for ME/CFS. We concluded that there are few decent treatment trials for ME/CFS in the pipeline and that things seem to be moving much faster for other illnesses such as multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia. Because...