Should a Science Media Centre even exist?
Correct. The power of mind over matter is the most potent and seductive myth of them all.
Seems a very selective removal of comments.
If you silly lowly patients insist on continuing to be sick, and have a crap life, after we experts have told what is wrong and how to fix it,...
I am taking bets on how long before attendance at JFK Jr's proposed wellness centres becomes compulsory for chronically disabled and sick, and how...
And underpayments?
standardisation of rest in fatigue interventions People should rest when they need to. Nothing more, nothing less. This obsession with...
Point taken. OTOH, it is the responsibility of the pros to do robust assessments. I don't take what patients say at face value either. I have...
No fundamental difference to this, IMHO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(Byrne_book) Sold over 30 million copies, more than $300...
Of course a bajillion years of evolution has prepared us for the early intuitive, less overt and specific, warning signs of approaching health...
A recent systematic review highlighted significant shortcomings in activity pacing interventions for ME/CFS, noting that they lacked rigour, were...
A fairy tale. The Narrative Rules All. An entire profession, even. (With some honourable exceptions.)
Do we know this? Otherwise, I agree.
Wessely....
It is becoming so. ME/CFS was just the trial run for them to test out how far they could get away with it. Turns out it was quite a long way, and...
Well said, @Nightsong. They are utterly disingenuous and self-serving, from start to finish.
For ME/CFS at least, the psycho-behavioural crowd crossed that bridge very early on, IMHO.
There is a growing scientific controversy And people like you are going to make damn sure there is.
Yes, they just elide straight over that critical bit, making sure to never examine the possibility that patients' reluctance to push through PEM...
And as an excuse to not look for any.
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