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Yes, there's another similar odd account here: https://twitter.com/cfs_research Both are relatively new. This one makes me think of a certain person who has a book to sell about 'curing' yourself from CFS using mind over matter.

It must be difficult to watch as your carefully constructed web of lies is slowly unravelled and, with this, watch the collapse of your whole empire.

With the looming collapse of PACE, Lloyd appears to be trying to prop up his taxpayer-funded empire of quackery with dubious research of his own. As for the Mason Foundation (who funded this rubbish), a lot of Australian patients (and perhaps even some local ME advocacy organisations) contacted...

Don Lewis is a very well respected ME/CFS doctor in Melbourne and has collaborated with a few members of this team before on publications from memory as well as others like Chris Armstrong. Henry Butt in particular has been involved with CFS research (mainly on the gut) for ages -- his name even...

"And then my dog ate all the raw data so unfortunately I can't share it with anyone."

Available in Australia.

I get this too. I (half-jokingly) say that if I'm forced to exert myself mentally, I can feel steam coming out of my ears from my brain overheating.

Many years ago, I participated in a PhD student's study that attempted to test cognitive function in CFS so my memory of it is pretty hazy. It involved a lot of games, tests and puzzles with a focus on short term memory I think. They were fairly basic tests that you might give to a primary...

Spot on. I don't give a crap what Miller and his fellow quacks 'believe'. They should have to scientifically prove that ME/CFS is psychological (or partly psychological dysfunction as he claims). Put up or shut up.

The problem I have with these announcements from this team is that I feel like they are raising false hopes among patients and their families. This is possibly the third 'big announcement' this year from them of the discovery of a diagnostic blood test (not to mention they've found the cause of...

Recovered memory syndrome - the pseudo-scientific idea that traumatic memories from childhood can be suppressed by the mind and that these repressed memories can somehow cause physical and mental illness later in life. It was very a convenient concept for the BPSers because they could claim...

It has been postulated by some that MS in some cases can be caused by Chlamydia Pneumoniae. If this is the case, an antibiotic like minocycline may well give some improvement. More from David Wheldon: http://www.davidwheldon.co.uk/ms-treatment1.html

Thank you, @Daisymay . My flatmate also came down with EBV some weeks later and was very ill for at least 4 weeks. Her parents came to look after her and her father mentioned that he'd been sick with EBV for over 6 months when he was younger and had "never been the same since". It was a relief...

I was given two weeks off work (in the 1990s) and told that I'd be back to normal after then. When I returned to the doctor after 3 weeks and told him I was still ill, I was told that this was 'impossible'.