The Born Free Protocol

[Wyva]

Joshua Leisk's work is impressive and has led to some great achievements: now I have an even lower opinion of his activity, which I didn't think was possible before. Congrats!

 

[Peter T]

If six percent of people with ME/CFS do recover, what percentage of them go on to develop a marketable treatment package which becomes a major source of income?

Given the enormous range of backgrounds of these evangelical recoverees, and the equally large variation in their ‘treatment’ protocols, are the only commonalities between them are that they had sufficient activity levels to invest in their preferred approach and they experience recovery? So we can conclude that no specific approach is necessary to develop a marketable treatment, but that recovery is a sufficient and necessary precursor?

Sellers of these packages urge us to look at recovery stories, but is the only reasonable conclusion of such variety that the only thing they all have in common is recovery? Then surely the only reasonable conclusion is not that package x or package y or package z causes recovery, but that recovery enables individuals to develop their chosen package.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

So the recovery causes the treatment, not the treatment causes the recovery.

 

[Sean]

Must be some mighty powerful woo if it can reverse causality.

 

[Sasha]

Must be some mighty powerful woo if it can reverse causality.

Personal experience is a powerful thing. People don't think in statistical terms. (That's what we're here for.)