I have long been of the view that most of what we see and know so far about ME is the patient's physiological and behavioural reaction to the...
So it isn't deconditioning. Who knew? Identify and interrogate the assumptions is the first step in assessing any hypothesis. The deconditioning...
Cognitive restructuring (i.e. modifying unhelpful thoughts) Who decides what is an 'unhelpful thought'? The sheer hubris required to be able...
Piss off, 'doctor'. You have dined out on our suffering for far too long. Go find an honest job. Some things should be cancelled, like this garbage.
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/01/24/acu-seeds-dragons-den-2/
In the case of something like illness anxiety, where it’s pretty clear that there’s not an underlying serious disease, Spot the age-old problem...
Yes, yes, yes. All very interesting. But can she realign my Chakras with the Eternal Cosmic Oneness? It takes a properly qualified charlatan to do...
It is, in principle at least, amenable to more objective measures. How practical that might be is a different story.
They love claiming they are both the victims and the heroes of the story, when they are neither.
Yes, important to keep in mind that is the minimum standard they have to meet – removing at least 95% of the target range of particles. They will...
1. The dominant paradigm has, until recently, been the psychosomatic one. 2. In no small part due to 1, the post-infectious hypothesis has still...
I view masking up probabilistically. The right kind of mask, used properly, greatly decreases the risk of inhaling virus, and the quantity of...
It is?
The game here is to flood the literature with apparently independent studies, all 'reproducing' the same basic result, using the same suite of...
Also worth noting that, as I understand US politics, health research has long been one of the most bipartisan issues in Congress. If there is one...
She was once told by doctors that she would never work again or have children. Want some hard evidence for that. If anything in the UK she was...
This.
And we get accused of being in denial? Cowards gonna coward.
Although previous randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have reported benefits to structured GET in the management of ME/CFS,... If anything, the...
Methods Randomized controlled trials... Stopped there. Anybody who can describe the body of psycho-behavioural studies for CFS as controlled...
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