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Why are we waiting? Oh wh-y are we wai-ai-ting? Feel free to sing along Every kid knows the tune

Moved post And another "You need to exercise" article. Times of India. 'Do you suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome? These easy exercises may help you feel better, healthier' 'A person who suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is left puzzled by the way CFS takes over the body. Imagine...

Every day that Exercise Review remains in the Cochrane Library it is harming ME sufferers. Now that NICE no longer recommend exercise the Cochrane Review is the prime source for anyone wanting for their own reasons (commercial, ideological, justifying more research funding for exercise studies...

There is a pretty worrying page on Dr Chellamuthu's Lightning site called 'Christians and the Lightning Process' in which she appears to claim that Lightning is part of Christianity. Quote: 'I personally have found that the Lightning Process has given me tools to enable me to put my Christian...

The Mail did not select or moderate the Comments to this article.

Strategist said: .... ".... Jason is right, it's possible that we're heading towards very serious problems...." Not according to the Mail readers who are out in force in the Comments, insisting that Long Covid is Only vaccine injury, "a cold", depression, that Covid and Long Covid don't exist...

It's Profs Peter White and Michael Sharpe's affiliation with Swiss Re we are more concerned about, but it's worth noting any work for Swiss Re done by Wessely.

David F Marks has made a rapid riposte to the Time's article's interviewing of Garner (with a photo of Garner so no one misses the point of David Mark's article). 'Trash Science of Positive Thinking' “Victim-blaming, gaslighting and the ‘all-in-the-mind’ philosophy of lazy doctors will...

Paul Garner interviewed (yet again) in The Times. Though much of the interview is with Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College, Resia Pretorius, from Stellenbosch University and Douglas Kell, from the University of Liverpool. Perhaps the journalist, Tom Whipple...

This post has been copied and following discussion moved from this thread: Possibility of ME or PVFS after COVID-19, Long Covid Paul Garner interviewed (yet again) in The Times. Though much of the interview is with Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College, Resia Pretorius...

The Atlantic. April 2021: 'The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man' 'In a crowded field of wrongness, one person stands out: Alex Berenson.' https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/

Telegraph: 'Why the jury is still out on 'Long Covid' 1.3 million people are said to be affected but it’s self-reported, there is no test for it and symptoms are vague. What’s really going on?' 'Long Covid was back in the news this week. Figures obtained by a Freedom of Information request...

Supply or demand? 'Despite psychology being a popular subject to study at degree level, staffing mental health services remains hugely challenging. With ambitions to grow the numbers of psychologists and psychotherapists by 2023/24, this report looks at the size and make up of the workforce of...

Too many psychology students. While some go on to do useful and necessary jobs in psychology, and others go on to work in unrelated professions, the sheer numbers encourage engagement in undemanding, low quality, dross psychosocial research. 2014: .... 'Since the start of this century, the...

Ah well, there did seem to be some kind of 'reasoning' at work as on Page 161 of his book ('Why ME? ...') Alex Howard goes on to say: "My heart tells me that the next step of my path in life involves running seminars, and that might be one way we can continue our journey together." Alex, who...

On Alex Howard's FB and Optimum Health Clinic FB - a response post to his 'Decode Your Fatigue ...' book Posts: @ Alex : .... "You do know that 'Decode' is the name of a massive and important Genetic study on ME/CFS (NOT on chronic fatigue). It is rather disingenuous of you to use the word...

In the First edition of his book 'Why ME? My Journey from ME to Health and Happiness' Alex Howard writes on page 151: "I reasoned that from a spiritual perspective I had chosen my illness before I was born as a way to wake me up to my true self and create the opportunity to remove myself from...

There is a very full iNews article based on the Dispatches program, with even more material than could be fitted into the documentary program itself (which was very clear and hard hitting). 'The truth about disability benefits: ‘People are killing themselves because of this system’ 'In a...

In 2017 the UN did an Inquiry into the UK's DWP's alleged violations of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, concluding that 'The UK government has inflicted “great misery” on disabled people and other marginalised groups, with ministers in a state of “denial” about the...

The Chrysalis Effect (also called 'Get your life back from ME') have been very concerning since they appeared in 2010. Originally created by Elaine Wilkins and Kelly Oldershaw, but now just Elaine Wilkins (Kelly Oldershaw is on record stating she is still sick, though not what she is sick...