ME/CFS Skeptic - How many scientific papers are fake?

I asked another scientist how they tell if a paper is worth reading or not. They said they go straight to the data and plots and you can tell very quickly. They also said they will always read a paper and trust the data from labs/teams they know and trust. I think they mentioned Dr Hanson as an example.
Interesting that you mention data here, and not anything else. I’ve seen so many «guides» on how to read papers that are about trying to understand what the authors intended to convey.

As a non-researcher, I’ve come to treat everything in a paper as marketing at best, propaganda at worst, unless proven otherwise.
 
What's amazing is that those reports never include any of the junk pseudoscience creeping all over medicine, so they massively underestimate the problem. You could probably include 80% of psychology in it as well. And that's probably an underestimate as well.

Even worse is that even if, somehow, something were to be done about it, this junk pseudoscience would escape all reforms, there is too much sunk cost involved, too much embarrassment would follow, most importantly: way too much demand, even desire, for it.

One of so many reasons why we can't have nice things.
 
The other day I met a psychology student who told me a positive attitude improves survival of cancer patients.
This happened to me. Back in 2020 a mental health worker told me that severe ME is like being stuck down a well and you've got to want to get better. She told me that cancer patients are more likely to survive if they have an optimistic outlook. When I e-mailed her to ask her for evidence for her claims she refused to provide any.

I've been to scared to see any mental health workers since because they are obviously quacks and the risk of getting sectioned again is too high for no benefit.
 
There are som ME/CFS Science blogs about the psychosomatic history of cancer (and other diagnoses) as well, but a psychologist might find those less credible than a paper..

 
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