The fragile process of Homecoming - Young women in recovery from severe ME/CFS, 2022, Krabbe et al

I've never understood the cultural baggage associated with 'Homecoming'. Once I left school I was never going back.

 

Uh, wat now? No. I don't even know what that means. There are many ways to make sense of our experiences without storytelling and most storytelling is not about making sense of our experiences but to tell stories, usually as a job or simply to entertain. Frankly this reads like someone who thinks that life in their immediate environment and from their own perspective is the same as everywhere.

This is all waffle and no syrup. I don't understand the idea of paying people to produce nonsense like this, this is even less useful than the wasteful tchotchkes that end up at flea markets.

 

Another thought. "Target" any female politician who is a decision maker e.g. if it's a (female) government minister/junior minister/prime minister funding this, via their department, then highlight the Norwegian study showing age onset and gender - there are two onset peaks - puberty/teenage women and a later peak 40 ish women (?) Some women politicians may recall a school (female) friend who disappeared off the radar due to poor health --- or they may be mothers with children around that age.
So possible ways in to challenge this.

 

Hey there was that other study that touted in their exercise program the fact that it doesn't require expensive equipment as a strength. Even though one of the two arms required access to a pool.

It's not like basic facts and coherence matter in EBM. The process is simply to say that it's good or that it works and since anything passes, they can now cite themselves self-referentially.

Yeah seriously who the hell thought this system was going to work out well? Sure, let's just have people judge on evidence in a multi-step process where every step requires arbitrary judgment and ends up in a details-laundering process where all depth and substance are removed. Surely that's just as good as actual science and empirical evidence, said no one who thought about this.

Frankly, I am coming to the conclusion that this wasn't really built to give scientific answers, it was built to give answers the people who built this wanted. And it kept going precisely because it gave those answers everyone desired. The whole evidence-based medicine paradigm needs to end, it's a blight on humanity at this point, it is quite literally a civilizational threat when it starts getting in the way of dealing with issues like pandemics.