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sciencenorway.no Researchers: Not testing for Covid-19 is creating problems
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I'm trying to come up with anything that makes this different from what the tobacco industry did and aside from the fact that it's far worse coming from experts in a position of authority... and I can't. This is what the tobacco industry did. They're even pretty much promoting the idea that regular infections are good. They go smoothly down the throat.

Maybe not so much a great filter but rather a bunch of small filters. Same outcome. At this point I'm pretty sure the odds of us surviving ourselves without AI essentially taking the reins from us seem almost laughable.
 
Opinion piece in Sundhedspolitisk Tidsskrift:

ME-foreningen: Sundhedsstyrelsens direktør vildleder Folketinget
ME Association: The Director of the Danish Health Authority Misleads Parliament

Norway, Sweden and NICE all get dragged into this Danish nightmare
”AI translate” said:
In this opinion piece, sharp criticism is directed at the Danish Health Authority's presentation on ME/CFS, which was presented at a thematic meeting in the Ministry of Health for Parliament's health spokespersons. According to Erica N. Church, chair of the ME Association, and Vibeke Vind, M.Sc. in biochemistry and member of the ME Association's ME Advisory Board, the presentation provides a distorted and professionally inadequate basis for decision-making, which risks having serious consequences for patient safety.
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Examples taken from the presentation of stigmatizing and loaded language, as well as tactics such as strawman arguments, cherry-picking, and sensationalism:
Quote: "History of personal harassment and public shaming on social media" (understood to mean that ME patients and their relatives harass employees who work with ME, ed.).”

This sentence was shown during the knowledge review, which is completely irrelevant. It is an unnecessarily stigmatizing piece of information that shifts focus and sympathy from a vulnerable patient group to the Danish Health Authority's employees. This feeds directly into Brian Heron's opinion piece in the Health Policy Journal about power and responsibility in healthcare communication.
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Quotes:
- "Two meetings with former NICE employees, who report about a very difficult guideline to execute"
- "Working group members emigrated"
- "Death threats from the English ME association"
- "Methodologically, GRADE has not been applied in the classical sense, but more weight has been placed on qualitative knowledge and the English ME association's opinions about the disease."

These four points together are deeply problematic. Speculation and sensationalism are used as tools to sow doubt about NICE's credibility on false grounds. Furthermore, the English ME association is portrayed as threatening and opinion-based.
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Denmark. That would be the home of the unrepentant Per Fink. Yes?

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Danish patients, and the ME Association, should demand full transparency and evidence for these outrageous defamatory claims, and full right of reply.

Quotes:
- "Two meetings with former NICE employees, who report about a very difficult guideline to execute"
- "Working group members emigrated"
- "Death threats from the English ME association"
- "Methodologically, GRADE has not been applied in the classical sense, but more weight has been placed on qualitative knowledge and the English ME association's opinions about the disease."
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Ravn said:
Comment in Sundhedspolitisk Tidsskrift: When Criticism Is Made Suspicious – About Power and Responsibility in Healthcare Communication

The author explains why he formally complained to the Aarhus Functional Disorders Centre
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Per Fink has written a response presenting his centre as rational, respectful and up to date on knowledge and competence:

Om debatklima, faglighed og behandling af funktionelle lidelser

Sundhedspolitisk Tidsskrift giver dig nyheder om sundhedspolitik, nye behandlinger, sundhedsøkonomi samt debat om sundhedsproblemer og -politik
sundhedspolitisktidsskrift.dk sundhedspolitisktidsskrift.dk
 
Professor Wyller has received 25 million NOK (2 222 457 EUR/ 2 620 900 USD) for research into Mind Body Reprocessing Therapy as treatment of chronic fatigue. According to this article from Akershus University Hospital, chronic fatigue can follow from several conditions, including autoimmune illnesses as inflammatory bowel syndrome, infections as Covid-19 and cancer.

Wyller says the method is a mental training programme related to CBT and that it has shown promise so far.

He says the treatment is easy and cheap and - if successful - will be very useful for all patients with chronic fatigue. It's also a treatment which is very easy to start using in rehabilitation.

www.ahus.no

Stor tildeling til forskning rundt blodforgiftning og langvarig utmattelse

Hvilken type antibiotika er best ved mistanke om blodforgiftning, og hvem kan ha nytte av metoden MBRT etter utmattelse? Det er tema for to Ahus-koordinerte prosjekter som til sammen får over 49 millioner kroner i forskningsstøtte.
www.ahus.no www.ahus.no
 
It is always about how wonderful it is that it's "easy and cheap" (I assume it's a key requirement to get research funding). Effective isn't important, just cheap.

I just watched a video from a silly norwegian insomnia trial and they went on and on about how it's very cheap, very easy to implement, everyone enjoys doing it very much, the physio's only need a few hours of training to do it.

Now, the trial didn't show that it improved sleep duration, but it was definitely effective for some mysterious subjective sleep quality, and that was very lovely since they had already been treating hundreds of patients with it before there ever was a trial. And now that it's proven so effective, they can convince even more people to try their cheap and easy insomnia program that doesn't help you sleep more.
 
Kalliope said:
Wyller says the method is a mental training programme related to CBT and that it has shown promise so far.

He says the treatment is easy and cheap and - if successful
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How many attempts at proving their obsession are they going to be allowed before the rest of the world accepts they have not delivered, and are never going to?

This stuff was 'promising' 40 years ago, and still is. They have made exactly zero progress in delivering meaningful benefits for patients in that time.
 
rainy said:
It is always about how wonderful it is that it's "easy and cheap" (I assume it's a key requirement to get research funding). Effective isn't important, just cheap.

I just watched a video from a silly norwegian insomnia trial and they went on and on about how it's very cheap, very easy to implement, everyone enjoys doing it very much, the physio's only need a few hours of training to do it.

Now, the trial didn't show that it improved sleep duration, but it was definitely effective for some mysterious subjective sleep quality, and that was very lovely since they had already been treating hundreds of patients with it before there ever was a trial. And now that it's proven so effective, they can convince even more people to try their cheap and easy insomnia program that doesn't help you sleep more.
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This has really been the main method for this whole scam. They simply go ahead and implement it ASAP, then it becomes embarrassing to stop because it would confirm the waste of resources and no one wants to admit to that. And they can get away with it because it's useless at best, so there is no reason not to wait for results, especially as they're always bad anyway. Could do the same for homeopathy, it's cheap and harmless. But this is ritual magic, so it invests people even more because of the fake skills they allegedly develop, that creates human resources problems.

Then of course every variation of the same after that can be implemented ASAP since it's basically the same as the previous/current scams.
Kalliope said:
Wyller says the method is a mental training programme related to CBT
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They can even just go ahead and say it. "Yeah, this is basically the same as what we've been doing for decades, but it's yellow instead of purple". So much novelty. So little of it actually new. A century war against reason, impossible to stop because, who even knows what they're fighting anymore, but it would be disrespectful to all the dead and the wasted treasury and so on.
 
A brief summary of the ongoing court case about disability benefits for a patient with ME/CFS that has been ill since the age of 4.

NAV (the welfare authorities), claims that one should read about recovery stories and that recovery is about beliefs. Flottorp was on their side, an gave an incredibly biased account of FITNET (and ignored Crawley’s robust null result in the replication), and admitted that she had ever only met one severe patient but thought she could extrapolate from what she knew from moderate patients.

The expert witnesses (Sommerfelt, Saugstad, Kielland, Jakobsen) slaughtered Flottorp’s testimony. Kielland made a very cogent point about how they have looked for people with a G93.3 diagnosis that have recovered fully in national registry data, and not really been able to find any of them. Most have no income from work at all. If LP or any of the other treatments were effective, and most have been required to try them, why can’t we see it in the data?

www.me-foreningen.no

Rettsak om uføretygd

Stemingsbeskrivelse fra en rettsak om uføretrygd i Gulating lagmannsrett, spørsmål om behandlingskrav ved alvorlig ME
www.me-foreningen.no www.me-foreningen.no
 

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Clinical and Biochemical Phenotyping of Post-Viral Immunometabolic Disease​


Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine


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In the first seminar of 2026 for the Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine Research Seminar Series, Dr. Jonas Axelsson presents, “Clinical and Biochemical Phenotyping of Post-Viral Immunometabolic Disease,” with a focus on clinical strategies to better stratify patients with post-viral disease.

Dr. Axelsson discusses the physiological changes that occur in the body in the presence of autoimmune disease, examines immune-related risk factors that may predispose individuals to chronic dysfunction, and highlights how Ameliekliniken is advancing clinical understanding and evaluation of autoimmune conditions.Recognizing that medicine is both a science of uncertainty and an art of probability, Dr. Axelsson continues his efforts to refine diagnostic approaches and improve health outcomes for patients with autoimmunity and immunodeficiency.

Key points:00:01 Introduction02:56 Founding the Ameliekliniken in 201605:04 Post-viral fatigue as a defining symptom06:50 Diagnosis without treatment is useless08:21 Patients tell you the diagnosis09:32 Treating different presentations as endotypes10:41 Proving an autoimmune disease12:59 Mitochondria beyond energy production14:32 An immune hereditary risk17:48 The risks of a suppressed mitochondria18:47 EBV as a risk factor for many diseases21:38 Possible EBV reactivation after COVID23:19 Understanding diseases through Ameliekliniken25:54 Defining mild immunodeficiency27:33 Developing an EBV assay29:13 Type 1 cold patients31:33 Type 2 hot patients34:54 How types 1 and 2 differ in energy production41:08 Why we should focus on metabolites43:15 Metabolic and treatment differences44:51 Nutrition as the best response intervention45:43 Significant improvement in SF36 physical component48:44 The four principles of research success51:07 Safflower oil as an intervention53:37 E. coli’s effect on metabolism54:31 Akkermansia for type 1 cold patients55:54 Is vitamin D needed in treatments?57:27 Research lab for actual patients59:05 Long COVID patients with high EBNA01:00:000 Association os serratia to other infections01:02:04 Understanding EBV early antigen01:07:13 Early EBV clinical trialsDr. Jonas Axelsson is a physician specializing in Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Clinical Immunology, and Transfusion Medicine. From 2019 to 2024, he served as Medical Director of the Center for Aphresis and Stem Cell Therapy at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. From 2016 to 2022, he was an Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
 
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Jonathan Edwards said:
Is this a commercial clinic?
The presentation sounds very confused. I have not heard of Post-viral immuno-metabolic disease, nor how it might have anything to do with autoimmunity!
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The YouTube page says:
The Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine (INIM) is a premier research and treatment center for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), Gulf War illness (GWI), and other related neuro-immune disorders.

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INIM Recruitmentnova.edu/nim/research-studies/contact-us.html
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One of the working links leads to:
For over a decade, Nova Southeastern University's Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine (INIM) has been at the forefront of raising awareness about neuro-inflammatory illnesses. Our multidisciplinary team of scientists and clinicians, specializing in endocrinology, neuroscience, nursing, nutrition, pharmacology, genomics, and computational modeling, collaborates to unravel the complexities of chronic conditions such as Gulf War Illness (GWI), ME/CFS, and Long COVID.

Through transitional research, we bridge the gap between laboratory discoveries and patient care, seeking to alleviate the debilitating symptoms of these multisymptom illnesses, ultimately improving patients' quality of life.
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Jonathan Edwards said:
Google says:

RED Clinic has changed names, and is now Ameliekliniken.

RED clinic rings very bad bells for some reason.
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The ME Inquiry Report

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mango said:
This is about some of the complaints that were filed against Jonas Axelsson and the Amelie Clinic/Ameliekliniken
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I have read IVO's decisions in the patient complaints regarding the care at Ameliekliniken. In a series of three posts, I share the content and reflect on the fact that several patient associations (both RME and FSI) have attempted to influence IVO's decisions.

All three posts are published on the blog, starting via this link:
https://mitteremitage-wordpress-com..._sl=sv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=sv&_x_tr_pto=wapp
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