Trial By Error: What is Recovery Norway’s Role in the JAMA Network Open Study of Long Covid in Young People?
"Undisclosed in the paper was that it was developed in partnership with
a group called Recovery Norway, which identifies its members as “people who have experienced recovery from ME/CFS or similar illnesses.” (I learned about this connection on twitter; here’s
a particularly blunt riposte to Prasad’s assertions.) Recovery Norway
has been closely associated with the Lightning Process—a three-day “mind-body” program founded by Phil Parker, a British osteopath and spiritual teacher who once boasted of how he could “step into other people’s bodies…to assist them in their healing with amazing results.”
Norway’s most prominent Lightning Process practitioner was one of the co-founders of Recovery Norway. Of the 126 individual testimonials of recovery presented on the site, 75 involve the Lightning Process. Overall, 93 of the narratives involve ME/CFS and eight involve “post-covid syndrome.”
The
JAMA Network Open paper indicates that the research was funded by the Dam Foundation in Norway, which supports health research in Norway. The
page for the project on the Dam Foundation’s site identifies Recovery Norway as the “user organization” for the project. An accompanying Q-and-A with Professor Vergard Wyller of the University of Oslo, the study’s senior author, included further information. According to Professor Wyller:
“
The project has been developed in collaboration with Recovery Norway, which organizes people who have experience of long-term symptoms after infections, including both kissing disease [glandular fever or mononucleosis]
and COVID-19. Recovery Norway is also an applicant organization for Dam.”
Professor Wyller also said this:
“In addition, we regularly receive input from an international user group linked to the COFFI consortium.” "
https://virology.ws/2023/04/07/tria...ork-open-study-of-long-covid-in-young-people/