New York Magazine - Intelligencer: Has Long Covid Always Existed, by Jeff Wise, November 2022

@PutrinoLab thread in full.

 

"frankly unprofessional"? Surely he knows that the correct parlance is "unbecoming"? They only have a few tricks in their bag - never respond to the substance of anything, just label your critics as mean, unprofessional, vitreolic and take it from there.

 

Oh dear. I just saw that Jeff Wise thinks post-treatment Lyme Disease is a post-viral syndrome...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1589335149061484544


Guess he knows as much about Lyme as he knows about Long COVID and ME/CFS, then!

 

Lols oh my god great sleuthing..

 

He graduated quite a few years ago. I went to Harvard many years ago and things like this change. I wouldn't focus on this.

 

Thread of threads

 

Possibly off-topic followup to my earlier post in-thread.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1590877339839496193

 

#MEAction Response to NY Magazine’s Egregious Article on ME and Long COVID
https://www.meaction.net/2022/11/10/elementor-59066/

 

Someone collected a good selection of twitter threads that responded to this article into a single twitter thread:

"A quick thread of THREADS from experts, journalists, and advocacy groups who have spoken out against the inaccurate, biased, and harmful @NYMag /@intelligencer story on ME and Long Covid."

https://twitter.com/user/status/1590484384536481794


EDIT: Updated to provide some context in case of future twitter problems.

Here's a list of the users in that twitter thread - they were all pointing out errors and bias in an article in New York Magazine by Jeff Wise with the title "Has Long COVID Always Existed?"

1. David Tuller (@davidtuller1)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589195957865828352.html
(this threadreaderapp might also break if twitter has problems, but I'm including it anyway)

2. David Putrino (@PutrinoLab)

3. Todd Davenport (@sunsopeningband)

4. Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep - NY Times columnist)

5. Meghan O'Rourke (@meghanor)

6. #MEAction Network (@MEActNet)
https://www.meaction.net/2022/11/10/elementor-59066/

7. Solve ME (@PlzSolveCFS)

 

Trial By Error: More on that New York Magazine Piece Pushing Psychogenic View of ME/CFS and Long Covid

"So getting back to that long, ill-informed and poorly reported New York Magazine article on the purportedly psychogenic nature of both long Covid and ME/CFS…I responded in a twitter thread to the article’s misrepresentations of my criticisms about the PACE trial.

The journalist, a science writer named Jeff Wise, didn’t interview me. But he did interview three other critics of the CBT/GET paradigm—Columbia physician-scientist Mady Hornig; Lucinda Bateman, a physician who specializes in ME/CFS and related diseases; and Solve ME/CFS Initiative’s director of advocacy, Emily Taylor. All felt their words and positions were misrepresented and have voiced their objections in a public statement."

https://www.virology.ws/2022/11/12/...ng-psychogenic-view-of-me-cfs-and-long-covid/

 

Editors hate the suggestion that they have miscommissioned, publish corrections and clarifications only when they absolutely have to, and (for topical weeklies) dislike revisiting old ground.

But editors working in a publishing conglomerate love an opportunity to get one over on their counterparts at stablemates. NY Magazine is part of Vox Media, which has a few relevant titles, the most suitable for a counterblast being The Verge.