Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

dave30th said:
yeah, I assume that's me.

Does anyone know or remember which month he was already walking 5K, and when he had his phone call with the unnamed Norwegian doctoral student?
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Does it matter? Isn't he best ignored? If we ask questions like this to try to get the details of his story straight, doesn't that imply it matters?

Whether an individual had long covid for 6 months or a year before recovering doesn't make their fantasy about why the recovered a useful piece of scientific evidence. It's still just one person's anecdote.

At least in this latest version there's an excellent response from Charles Shepherd.
 
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Jonathan Edwards said:
I think I may write Garner a personal letter/email. He is making such a fool of himself but also of his profession. I am thinking of doing my UCL departmental seminar this next academic year on the Cochrane Conspiracy, in which he is likely to feature.
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Please do. Would there be any chance of making your seminar on the Cochrane conspiracy into a published paper?
 
He is responding to an article written about Ron Davis here:

Irresponsible comment. 19 recovered patients wrote in the BMJ recently "opposite message—that there is no hope without a future biomedical cure—can also be harmful. The nocebo effect, where negative expectations can exacerbate symptoms or impair recovery, is well documented, and its impact is especially strong when shaped by medical authorities"

 
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