Sometimes you just need a "like x100" button!
I like @strategist's new word! Omnibabble = reframing a folk psychological explanation in "biological" terms without actually significantly...
Thanks for the replies @duncan, and for talking the time to explain. I totally get you there. So tired of those lazy self-satisfied "skeptics"...
So @duncan, would there be symptoms of chronic Lyme that could differentiate it from ME? I'm mean symptoms, not serology. I said above that...
Yes. Its a sort of reverse inference fallacy. There are a whole family of them, and its time we took them to task. "anxiety induces heightened...
This actually happened to me! Got a new diagnosis (a rare periodic fever syndrome), for which there are (some) treatments. And I'm still here! To...
I get the antigenic variation, latent infection thing. Infection hides, undetected in the tissue for ages, etc. Like EBV. But what does that have...
@duncan, thanks for responding. I'm still trying to get my head around what a bacterial infection has to do with mould sensitivity. What tent...
From the article: So Lyme Disease UK is comfortable describing the disease as something that renders you unable to 'detoxify' toxins released by...
Thanks for posting @Indigophoton. I'm especially interested because I've been diagnosed with an autoinflammatory disease. But I suspect that I'm...
This. What's worse, this blurring is often facilitated by the doctor. When I first got ill, I was sent to an internal medicine registrar for...
Aye aye to that, @TiredSam I agree that Oxford CFS is defined in the wrong way. Anyone who wants our disease to be psychological tends to want to...
Same as mine, I think, uncontracted.
@James Morris-Lent, we forgot "Failure to recover from gayness is positively associated with membership of LGBTQ rights groups".
The acid test: When they want to say: "If I'd done my homework, I would have passed the test" Do they say: "If I would have done my homework, I...
No, I think what they did was correct for a power analysis. Which is to estimate likely effect sizes based on previous studies and ensure...
:laugh::thumbup::thumbup:!! Spot on!!
The trouble is, you will probably get a significant simple correlation, because overall, the more severely affected people will tend to rate...
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:!! .... if the activists continue their vexatious and threatening behaviour, young people will be reluctant to embark on...
Yes, true. I think @Esther12 is just pointing out the need to choose our words with care.
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