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The google translate is difficult for me to understand, but I think this article is saying that the journal just updated the article to change the claim that the "ME Association" was harassing Per Fink to a claim that actually "ME patients and their supporters" are harassing him instead. Have...

Top quality research findings here. Looking forward to the followup trial that encourages people in precarious financial situations to stand on paper circles shouting "stop" until they've trained themselves to stop doing poverty.

Bizarre. Why set up the ME/CFS biobank in the first place if you're going to invite experts along to tell everyone that it's pointless because ME is caused by fear of smartphones? I guess they'd better shut that project down pronto since less research is needed rather than more?

I did get a chuckle out of this bit: People with ME/CFS act like they're sick, in exactly the same way that people who were injected with bacterial toxins to make them sick act like they're sick! How strange! Perhaps psychiatry has the answer?

I get it because of acid reflux, often without heartburn pain or any other indication of reflux. It's probably quite common in people both with and without ME.

Out of interest, did @dave30th ever get the apology he sought for this? Or did BMJ just ignore the request like they've ignored everything else?

"Despite recent claims, blogging on psychologytoday.com is scientifically meaningful." Yeah, sure, why not.

Ha! Perhaps they were only looking for the right kind of NHS patients, whoever those may be. (This NHS patient didn't bother to fill in the survey, nor was I invited to)

Having low blood sugar also feels very different to PEM and ME, you can tell the difference in yourself between them. Of course, you can have both simultaneously, but you can fix low blood sugar in 15 minutes by just putting some glucose into your body - but it won't fix PEM or ME more...

Well. At least they've had the honesty to pre-register the outcome most likely to be subject to bias as the primary outcome, instead of switching it later, I guess?

This is my favourite website for checking colour combinations for accessibility - put the hex codes for the colours in and it'll tell you if people will be able to read it easily :) https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

Into month 3 of HRV tracking. Uninterpretable so far, still. The yellow bars are my actual HRV scores, and the thick blue line is a 15-day moving average of those values. The thicker purple line is a 15-day moving average of my resting heart rate (RHR) as calculated by Fitbit. I think Fitbit...

"The bastards don't want to get better!"

Wikipedia has a page on COR theory (mentioned in the keywords) here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_resources_theory This is the only attempt at a definition: Shrug.

Good LORD. And people say crime doesn't pay!

:rolleyes: source: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325174.php quality of source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/medical-news-today/

It is an interesting article, but it goes into a pretty weird flex here. If the BPS hegemony was caused by the US having better, more comprehensive, more modern healthcare than the UK and Canada, then surely no patients in the US would ever be told that their chronic pain only exists in their...

I've just been watching this video on Youtube that some of you may be interested in. The guy in the video is a physiotherapist and strength coach, and his channel is aimed at weightlifters and other athletes. He talks about grip strength, and mentions that it's normal for grip strength to...

Still, at least they have a good sample size, right? Oh wait.

I'm impressed by how much they've managed to fudge that correction. They've used dozens of words to reiterate the same old bollocks about how ME/CFS activists are pressuring researchers out of their jobs, and then when they get to the meat of the complaint, all they can manage is shoving in...