I think if I were to go (which I won’t) the question I’d like to ask would be-
Given the circumstances outlined by Garner as to how he achieved full recovery via brain training (or whatever it’s called) then isn’t it the case that Chalder’s body of work on pacing and GET is entirely debunked?
They can’t both be right, can they?
If Garner had instead followed Chalder’s advice he wouldn’t have recovered.
They already have their excuses worked out for this: every case is unique and special and what works for some doesn't work for everyone.
This is the literal argument the Norwegian government made in their recent disability case featuring Flottorp, how it should be up to the patient to have to try everything that hasn't been shown to be ineffective (proving a negative, which is famously impossible). Even if the patients are refused things they can't do on their own. They used the movie Brazil as a model, a trap of insanity.
Their model is based on infinite possibilities with infinite assumptions, hence why every patient is a unique snowflake with issues and solutions that have to be worked out uniquely (or in groups, or in apps, or it doesn't matter because their whole thing is vague and generic anyway). It could be simple and quick, like Garner's manly thoughts, or a very long and arduous process with, uh, childhood trauma, or whatever.
The ideology can never fail, it can only be failed. If someone doesn't recover it's because they haven't found that special problem they have, the "aha!" moment that is needed to get back on track. And this is how they can get away with extensive therapy and rehab lasting for years not being a problem with the fact that most people recover from those illnesses early on, or Garner's "one phone call" BS. And why their stuff is compatible with ear seeds and other blatant scams.
There is no winning an argument here, it's not a debate, there is nothing to debate when you have all the power and time is entirely on your side. There is no amount of showing hypocrisy, contradictions or data falsifying the assumptions in their models, such as cortisol and how it's the "stress hormone" that will make any difference. It doesn't matter. People can't be reasoned out a position they didn't use reason to adopt, psychosomatic ideology was never a reasonable model, it was only ever bigotry and unaccountable hubris.
We face an even more impossible task than deprogramming people out of QANon, because this ideology is supreme and has a long tradition of being so. It would be more like deprogramming the entire country of North Korea, while the ruling party is in charge. Sisyphus had an easy task compared to this.
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