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There is a difference between playground talk, and some stranger sending you an anonymous email making such threats. It could be an idle threat, or it could be someone with serious intent. You don't know. That's what makes such a threat effective: it creates worry because you don't know if it is...

So you genuinely think there's a possibility that Simon Wessely fabricated everything, and deliberately lied to the police about these death threats, and lied to the press as well? I find that vanishingly improbable. It's not only Wessely that received threats: so did Prof Myra McClure, one of...

To be fair, when death threats are made, it's quite a serious situation. So I would not say Hanlon's article is an exaggerated one, although it unfortunately was one sided. The article did not touch upon the connection or collusion of Wessely, White and Sharpe with the disability insurance...

So how do you interpret the phrase "is at the disposal of the authorities". To me that says that the list has been compiled, and is available to authorities such as the police should they request it. It is also logical that Simon Wessely would be the best person to compile a list, as he reads...

If you read this post and some of the discussion in that thread, it would seem that the ME/CFS activist list was likely compiled by Simon Wessely himself, rather than the police. This because Hanlon wrote in his article that the list "is at the disposal of the authorities". So that suggests...

I wonder whether the laser adjuvants that the Bill Gates Foundation is supporting will generally reduce the incidence of side effects from vaccines, thereby increasing the uptake of vaccinations, and hopefully helping to promote the development of new vaccines. I think there is desperate need to...

Those findings are the opposite of the Borody study, which found that fecal transplant only works for ME/CFS patients who had comorbid IBS, and did not work for ME/CFS patients without IBS.

That's a question I would like to know more about. One of the tests Dr Shoemaker introduced for CIRS is the visual contrast sensitivity test (VCS). The VCS utilizes your eye's ability to detect shades of contrast as a means to gauge exposure to mold toxins (the retina consists of neurons, and...

There are some studies that show stress can boost Th2 immunity, while suppressing Th1 immunity: Academic stress-induced changes in Th1- and Th2-cytokine response Psychological stress may induce increased humoral and decreased cellular immunity That would make sense from the evolutionary...

A list of various up and running Sci-Hub domains given in this post.

There is an article here about the work of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on establishing ME/CFS prevalence. Their estimated minimum prevalence rate of ME/CFS is 0.2%, which lines up with previous estimates. This 0.2% is patients satisfying the CDC 1994 Fukuda criteria...

Yes if you select patients with this type of back pain: see this study.

Chronic lower back pain was recently shown to be linked to spinal disc infection with the same bacteria that cause acne.

Thanks for your detailed explanation @BeautifulDay. I am still not fully understanding it, but brain fog and maths don't go well together.

So you are saying that there is a higher error rate on rare mutations, compared to common mutations? Would you know the reason for that?

@BeautifulDay, I am still not clear on why 23andme can have a 40% error rate on some SNPs, but a 2% rate on most others.

You may be right regarding the concomitant reduction of viral titers, but other aspects of the enterovirus theory are more established: • The findings of chronic enterovirus in ME/CFS patients' tissues: there are numerous studies that have replicated that, and I think that research is...

You don't expect actual useful things like funding for ME/CFS antiviral studies do you? Good luck with that. Dr Chia wanted to do a study on oxymatrine treatment for enterovirus ME/CFS, but could not get funding. He ended up doing a quasi-study, the good results of which are available, but it...

From one of Chia's papers: Chia also found that levels of enterovirus in stomach tissues (direct evidence of the virus) went down in patients that improved on oxymatrine treatment.

We do need to home in on a disease mechanism. I do like to the general ideas outlined by @Jonathan Edwards, that ME/CFS may be caused by some dysfunctions in immune signaling, which then leads to a chronic aberrant immune response. That immune dysfunction ultimately might become the best target...