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Very underwhelming. Basically "both sides" journalism presenting the voice of the abused and the abuser as of equal value. It quotes more deniers like Garner, Sharpe and Gaffney, although Wessely declined to answer. Which is probably the smartest thing he's done in his entire career. Some of...

Well of course if you try to measure the temperature of some water using a voltmeter you're going to have a bad time, even more so if you're trying to gauge how the water is feeling, which is not even measurable. If you don't do the right tests you won't get anything useful out of those tests...

Ironic, since it's pretty obvious that for most physicians, unexplained fatigue = depression. It's basically the "main symptom" of depression, whenever that's convenient. Then again, the process of labeling symptoms as depression or anxiety for no other reason than wanting them labeled this way...

It's very successful. Why would they change when it continues to be massively successful despite having delivered absolutely nothing? They get nothing but praise, awards and funding for it. When people have a good scam running, they rarely stop on their own. Turns out even in healthcare this is...

Reportedly this is common in IAPT. I think that wherever particular outcomes are expected, by cheating if necessary, this is likely common practice. It's not as if it makes much of a difference anyway, the very act of limiting outcomes to those biased questionnaires is already half-way to being...

Reportedly, this is what they're pushing at the Nuffield NHS program. The same old mindless debunked nonsense. All the claims are fully generic and have nothing to do with LC, other than the blatant and obvious lie that it's proven to speed up the recovery process. This is a complete lie, full...

Wow. No way. Chronic pain is associated with.. chronic pain?! What an outstanding discovery! Stop the presses. As in we won't need them anymore after this single greatest nugget of scientific knowledge is disseminated. And poor health has consequences? No. Way! So it turns out that people are...

Yup. And not the first I've seen of this sentiment. Software development is only loosely related to engineering and not regulated and I am constantly shocked at how absurdly low some medical standards can be. Even lower than standards in economics in many places. Basically negative standards in...

Seems to be entirely decided by local politics. In some places they will be. In others it will be impossible to get them. Pure arbitrariness.

Always novel. As in: belongs in the fiction section. Always novel. Always the same plot. The same characters. The same ending. The same everything. Always novel, never any different. Words have no meaning in this ideology, they are merely gotchas or empty vessels.

Absolutely wild that this pseudoscience can get away with what essentially consists of: everything affects this, but especially those things we have completely obsessed over for decades at the exclusion of everything else. It's everything. But especially those things. That's how you can...

Actually, we should aim higher than getting people to accept to live in a hole in the ground. As if this is good enough for us, especially while we are continuously mocked and disrespected for it. Because that's all we deserve, all we're good for. Not satisfied with having a hole in the ground...

It's a Lancet subsidiary. There is an attention to details that is rare to see. Just the proper use of the hashtag #LongCovid is rare from official sources. If they are serious about this, though, they will need to escalate within the organization to address Horton's and the board bizarre...

"Expect" being a future tense word about something that will happen makes this odd for something that has been happening for 2.5 years. I expect that the weather yesterday will have been exactly [reads yesterday's weather]. I am basically a wizard who can predict the past. Pay me like a public...

The idea of studying those vastly disparate issues into a huge mix is absurd. Imagine trying to find everything common between species of birds, some rocks, plant fossils, the rains in Africa, some turds that may or may not be wood sticks and what appears to be part of a clay pot. I'm sure it's...

Nevermind safe. Homeopathy is safe. So what? Safe and effective is what's needed. All evidence clearly shows that unless there are unrelated problems, and it's good for rehabilitation specialists to know this but no further, there is no evidence that rehabilitation has any benefit on outcomes...

What I hate about the way this is framed is that it respects the traditional formula of: if we can't figure out the mechanism easily then it has to be psychological. It's the formula and everything behind it that's wrong. The idea that a scientific discipline could have a default explanation...

Seeing stuff like that is hair-raising. I can't even imagine this thought process in any other profession. The idea of saying "this isn't well-defined but whatever we'll use it anyway" is just so many layers below the bare minimum it almost feels like a trap asking about it. Like admitting the...

40% of the time, it works 50%. If you define work as simply going through the process. That's a very poor business proposition. Honestly by this standard, Theranos was very mild fraud.