Preprint There Is No Established Connection Between Long-COVID and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2025, Kouyoumdjian et al

[rvallee]

This title is going to have a big effect when authors of other papers go google searching for anything related to relationships between ME/CFS and LC. It's going to float to the top of those google searches and get taken at face value and plugged into endnote in a heartbeat. It scarcely even matters what the paper will say. Titles do heavy lifting in citation and this is one that's going to really stand out and get used very easily.

Yup, it's very clearly clickbait. Although it does have the bonus of being so comically inept that it could actually backfire, but we can never be sure.

 

[Peter T]

Yup, it's very clearly clickbait. Although it does have the bonus of being so comically inept that it could actually backfire, but we can never be sure.

Inept makes no difference to the psychogenic true believers. I had thought Prof Crawley’s Lightening Process study would be the reductio ad absurdum of the PACE type experimental design, however instead many BPSers resolved the apparent contradictions by becoming Lightening Process defenders too.