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Yes, sounds like over-training-checking...but I think every professional athlete gets that regularly. If the parameters say "overtraining" it's too late. I don't know. Seems the same to me. I might be wrong.

Yes, sounds like over-training. Is this meant? Over-training has clear parameters and symptoms. A (professional) athlete who is over-trained should change the trainer. It is well-known that regeneration and training need to be organised properly (men need more regeneration in general). From...

@TrixieStix Good point! But when applied in patients with cancer, wouldn't the doctors measure the B cells, too? And maybe if nothing changes in the B cells, maybe they believe the drug doesn't work? Works Rituximab for 100%?

There's always something new to learn, quite incredible this o_O That's what makes me angry, too.

I was told that there exists depression that manifests in the body alone, i.e. without any "psychological" symptoms. That's broadening, I'd say. Mix that with "somatoform disorders" and everything can be explained. Actually, how would "body depression" be differentiated from "somatoform...

There was a head of a big statutory health insurance company who said that doctors make look patients sicker than they are on paper so that the insurance can charge more. The insurance even calls and speaks with doctors about this and offer a fixed sum per case if the doctors agree to do this.

@Jonathan Edwards, thanks for answering (I fear you answered that question in another thread and I forgot it :( sorry) Why should that be? What about CT, PET, SPECT, do you know maybe? Are the papers about abnormal brain findings in ME then wrong (amongst others those by Komaroff)? Or don't...

@Jonathan Edwards Why is that? (If this was answered elsewhere, maybe you would be willing to link to it?)

@Valentijn, Okay. But isn't behind an intent a motive? I personally think "motive" is major in a human being and his actions. I won't say that an interviewee in a magazine would be comlpetely honest about one's motives. It looks good to say, if "I knew I only had five minutes left, I would...

Only a side comment: In my opinion, in order to know or understand one's actions it is mandatory to understand the motive. As Sun Tzu put it "know your enemy and know yourself and you won't have to worry about the outcome" (for which he proposed spies), or for those who like Game of Thrones (I...

I was also concerned with regard to the rituximab study - or any other study not directly financed by the producer, if it is not so uncommon that "fals drugs" circulate. Maybe that's a bit unreasonable and exaggerated...

I would agree that "psychology people" may live in their own reality; it's something I thought after having discussed with people who accept psychological theories (and more) as reality. It seems to me they think people who like science are not very "developed", e.g. spritually; not...

Our maths professors said that, too: "A well formulated problem is half the solution." It's true.

In my opinion, the problem started when psychology wanted to become a "natural science". They did - and still do - good field science (e.g. cognitive and behavioral psychology). Honestly, I am often reminded of religion, too, when it comes to this topic.

In my area questions were asked in a mean, harsh way. Actually, the questions were meant to show "your results are crap, p*** off". PhD students called it the "shark tank", and in order to be well prepared we thought and asked the wildest questions. Still, it is true that PhD students were...

Thanks for posting the news! This is quite disappointing. :( Although there were hints. I also wish the very best for the researchers - I imagine this outcome may be frustrating for them, too - and I hope they will keep on doing real science on ME.

I can absolutely agree with that, at least in my case. When I realized I'm actually doing that I fixed a certain date to fill out the forms. I also can agree to the fact that I wanted to please the clinician. I am very strict, though, and honest in that aspect, so I disciplined myself...

Yeah, but let them BPS people have their share of the cake...it's quite unfair to give everything to pharma, isn't it? :D

Hi @Esther12, reading your post doesn't increase my trust and confidence in Cochrane. :) Thanks for the info! It seems to be always the same...no matter which "independent quality evaluation" you choose, there's always some form of influence.

Hi @Gingergrrl, the molecular biologist in the interview (one of the whistleblowers) said in 2005 it became public that "fake anti cancer medicine", amongst others Rituximab, was sold by several pharmacies (the number I don't recall, it was something between 30 and 80). There was a lawsuit in...