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Thought this was an interesting point, given the history of links between BPS crowd and insurance companies.

Merged thread The Times: Letter from I think this Matthew Dryden (link to page on Twitter) in Times this morning: And then article reporting the letter. Private clinics ‘cash in with false Lyme disease diagnoses’...

This thread has been created by merging threads and copying posts form UK news S4ME and the UK Covid Inquiry I'm still not spending much time online unfortunately so this may have been discussed elsewhere. Apologies if it has. As those of us in the UK are aware the Covid Inquiry is just...

Yes, I know David has been working on this for some time and put in a lot of work, so thank you.

I see you've been asking it as well. I hadn't seen this before asking two questions: Q: Are the claimed findings sound of the 2011 paper Comparison of adaptive pacing therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, graded exercise therapy, and specialist medical care for chronic fatigue syndrome (PACE)...

Thanks, Jo. I do often get discomfort in my mouth which seems linked to nerves and so this didn't seem completely unusual, sort of on the spectrum of what sometimes happens if at one end of it. Happily it has now largely passed. I often find these symptoms flare up and then subside. The...

Thanks NP. It has now passed.

Bizarre symptom #53. For a few days in 2008, I had the most intense pain I have ever experienced. I have smashed my elbow on a pothole, been driven into when on my bike by a car going at 30+mph, broken both bones in my forearm, been smashed up on rugby pitches in several countries, but nothing...

Straight after the news: Garner being Garner. [edited with correct link - Paul Garner] At 1:05 here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001bb8m

A bit of a tangent from the current discussion, but From https://splitsandfusions.wordpress.com/2022/04/02/living-marxism-the-mag-they-could-not-gag/ Link to dropbox with the copies: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jqo6cj3swx9rnlx/AACsv0ZK7MDspNf_W3QHVqSba?dl=0

Is aromatherapy the answer to long-COVID? I fear not! Blog post by Edzard Ernst. https://edzardernst.com/2022/06/is-aromatherapy-the-answer-to-long-covid-i-fear-not/ Unblinded, self-report trial funded by interested party finds treatment effective. As some said about PACE and pointed out again...

Letter in The Times, London 02/06/2022.

Moved post Record two million people in the UK have long Covid The Times, London 02/06/2022 (Paywalled) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/record-two-million-people-in-the-uk-have-long-covid-mw7z2nlp8

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35431349/

https://rapm.bmj.com/content/47/7/408

I haven't had any dealings with Holgate and those I respect (such as Simon and Andy) speak highly of his recent work. My own impression is that the appeal to authority works with him. If the 'experts' tell him that it's psychosocial and treated by GET-CBT and patients are dangerous militants...

Article (paywalled) in The Times (London) on how longitudinal studies are being used to look at Long Covid. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/twins-help-solve-long-covid-mystery-nr268jpw0

Full title: Use of tranexamic acid in major trauma: a sex-disaggragated analysis of the Clinical Randomisation of an Antifibrinolytic in Significant Haemorrhage (CRASH-2 and CRASH-3) trials and UK trauma registry (Trauma and Audit Research Network) data...

Letter from Holgate in Times today. Can't help thinking there is some rewriting of history from Holgate who took instruction from Wessely, supported White, endorsed the 'dangerous militants' nonsense and backed Crawley for years.

Merged thread Letter in The Times (London) Chowdhury, Strain 18/05/2022