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We absolutely need to keep people away from hospitals. Have you seen the death rates there? How many sick people come out of those places or shamble through their halls, sometimes not even on their own power? Obviously if we eliminated all hospitals there would be far fewer sick people moping...

They would not dare, weight is an objective measure. It's actually stuff like this that makes it clear they don't even believe in their own BS, because if they did they would be their main targets. There is so much more money to be made/saved here, and they completely avoid it precisely because...

There have been hundreds of studies and thousands of news articles about Long Covid. At this point this kind of Dr Magoo BS cannot be taken seriously. They know, but they don't believe in it, so I guess it doesn't count. We should all just shut our eyes and hands on our ears go LA LA LA LA LA...

Seems to be an official concept: https://www.cms.gov/priorities/innovation/key-concepts/value-based-care. I don't think it has anything to do with more pseudoscience, chiropractic or otherwise, but since it's a generic nice-sounding word, people use it to mean whatever they want it to mean. How...

Approaches mic during question time: "Not so much a question, more of a comment..."

Confirmed. Some laughter. Deep sadness, too. Oh, buddy, you are neck-deep in it already. It's too late for small measures. I love how their criticism applies perfectly to, well, this: The seeds are ready for the harvest. They were custom-built to grow into enabling all the pseudosciences...

So, for fun's sake, I decided to search, and although there are a few instances of using magoo as a verb ("magooing it"), this is the first instance of someone using it in the context of health care with proper title, using the form "Dr Magooing it". History in the making, folks. You read it...

Good grief this completely unaccountable system. They find a slight reduction in costs because cases are lower than at their peak, and people recover naturally. The clinics have no impact on anything, because they are based on useless models. The idea that they... I'm sorry I don't even know...

There have been hints for a long time when Wessely published his "9/11-related illnesses are mass psychogenic" in Spiked. There is a lot of right-wing politics behind COVID denial. In the US, you have some of the main signatories and pushers of the "Great Barrington Declaration" literally...

Still, the most absurd thing here is that while Garner is pushing relentlessly with his personal anecdote, pointing at other anecdotes and commercial programs as support, admitting there is no medical for any of this, while using his credentials as an expert in clinical evidence synthesis...

So bit more about those emails, I went through most of it. Basically he is obsessed with the notion that this is a fear/nocebo response, strictly psychological, and doesn't care about any of the traditional GET stuff. To him this is 100% mind-body delusion, treated by CBT or other brain...

Damn, those activists sure are busy doing everything they accuse us of. It looks mostly to be him and Signe Flottorp, speaking for their Oslo thing. What he says is absolutely ridiculous, and there is zero indication in the messages that it is treated as such. Very disturbing stuff. His email...

I don't follow fibromyalgia communities as much, but in what I have seen over the years a lot of them report PEM. Widespread pain is a big part of my own condition, and it's already part of ME/CFS criteria anyway. Most likely this is mostly a problem of limited diagnostic ability, the...

(From the movie Groundhog day, where the main character relives the same day over and over again, in case anyone isn't familiar with the image)

They do love rigged ones, though. Just like they love talking to journalists, as long as the interview is explicitly meant to be nothing but friendly softballs, preferably just glowing flattery. Any platform is good for them, as long as that platform is meant to be deferential and approves of...

Kind of funny that they can't deliver a delivery plan, even one that isn't even a plan, and so would deliver nothing anyway. Using a ridiculous excuse nonetheless. As if anyone buys that this dud is taking is too much effort from their work on their overall NHS plan, or whatever. Well, more...

Not many clearer signs of professional failure when right-wing grifters agree with you, for the same reasons and using the same, uh, reasoning. It's like a giant red flags made entirely out of medium red flags, which are all entirely made of small red flags, and so on down several levels. Also...

Small detail, but for once I'd really like for someone to actually tell the truth: they don't even partially understand anything about it. And as far as I'm aware, nothing that wasn't known 5 years ago, and almost nothing that was known 20 years ago. Always with the fully, the same dynamic some...

If only. But, no. Not even a little.

Hm. That's not very biopsychosocial. Plus, infections are good for us now, apparently. They top up our immune muscles, or whatever. Can't go around scaring people about viruses and bacteria, they're so common, they're everywhere, that would make people nervous wrecks, and so on. People just have...