I bought that book with great hope that it would be really good. It was awful. Muddled and badly written.
For the UK, key names that should come up in the story are Simon Wessely, Peter White, Michael Sharpe, Trudie Chalder, Esther Crawley. Also, in...
Film: The Tangled Story of ME/CFS From @Valerie Eliot Smith's blog: https://valerieeliotsmith.com/category/the-secret-files/ if you want to dig...
The Rise and Fall of the Psychosomatic Approach to Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by David...
That looks like a very good motion to me. I can't see any reason why the current trustees would reject it. I wonder whether it's possible for the...
I prefer to call it psychobehavioural. There's nothing biological about these people's beliefs. It's all about blame based on our allegedly wrong...
Asking about bouncing back from stress without specifying what sort of stress is ridiculous. The stress I think of could range from dropping a...
I think the perspective probably looks different on each side of the Atlantic. BPS is still very powerful in parts of Europe, and they're not...
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But surely that's the point. He's not the same as the average victim of the LP cult, for whom I have huge sympathy. He's got 40+ years...
He can't help himself. The tone of that article is so complacent, patronising and flippant. What about serious complaints, like the S4ME committee...
Thanks, well done. Surely that means their conclusion is wrong too. They can't claim real effect when it didn't even reach statistical significance.
The second one by Peter Hall et al. which is mainly promoting electrical brain stimulation methods, also makes a good point against exercise...
If anyone, including Paul Garner, is reading this thread and wants to know more about LP, its methods, and the 'brainwashing' aspects, and harm it...
There are much better surveys showing GET leads to significant worsening even when done by so called experts.
I have just replaced my failing fitbit with one that does HRV. In the first week my HRV is consistently scarily low (mid teens), but I've decided...
Garner has backed himself into a corner by being so frequently public in his pronouncements on the media and social media and by adding himself as...
At the end of paragraph 2, you say: should be extrapolated... i think you mean: should not be extrapolated ..
We can link to anything that is publicly available. And quote short extracts, but not copy whole documents.
This is our thread on the survey. Note that there were serious criticisms on that thread about the way the survey was conducted. Survey: "TREAT...
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