Michael Maes M.D., Ph.D. Professor, researcher

a prolific producer of published papers, often citing his own work/papers.
How much of it can be trusted?

Michael MAES | M.D., Ph.D. Professor | King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok | Department of Psychiatry | Research profile (researchgate.net)

 

Why, which of his papers do you have concerns about and for what reason?

 

His work on ME/CFS has come up on the forum a few times. I have stated here before that I get bad vibes from his work, but I wasn't aware that he was publishing dozens of papers a month, which, as anyone in academia will tell you, is ludicrous.

 

It is always difficult to judge how trustworthy individual papers are in terms of data. Where I would criticise Maes is in the putting out of data in support for hypotheses that look pretty threadbare. So when it is claimed that free radical damage is at the heart of things I would be sceptical.

 

Haven't found the free radical paper.
At times it seems to me that "free radical damage" seems to be proposed as the cause of a range of poorly understood diseases --. There's a white muscle myopathy liked to selenium deficiency (in China) [selenium mops up free radicals - GPX] but I doubt free radical damage would have been missed in ME/CFS.

 

To be honest I'd not really 'noticed' him until I was doing some searching on 'flu-like' symptoms
see https://www.s4me.info/threads/sore-throats-swollen-glands.9370/page-3#post-490064

this paper from 2009 came up
"Functional" or "psychosomatic" symptoms, e.g. a flu-like malaise, aches and pain and fatigue, are major features of major and in particular of melancholic depression - Michael Maes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20035251/

So I had a quick look at a couple of his other papers and he cites his own papers a lot and looking at his researchgate catalogue as @InitialConditions says it is staggering how many papers there are.

and then I saw (using 'maes' tag) that there were a number of papers here.

I just thought others here might have some insights.

 

Then there is this paper
An intriguing and hitherto unexplained co-occurrence: Depression and chronic fatigue syndrome are manifestations of shared inflammatory, oxidative and nitrosative (IO&NS) pathways

An intriguing and hitherto unexplained co-occurrence: Depression and chronic fatigue syndrome are manifestations of shared inflammatory, oxidative and nitrosative (IO&NS) pathways - PubMed (nih.gov)

see also
In severe first episode major depressive disorder, psychosomatic, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia symptoms are driven by immune activation | Science for ME (s4me.info)