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When talking about 31% of respondents whose health professionals are a source of information, anyone know what they mean? I've genuinely never read or heard things on this issue from any medical professional that I didn't know and wasn't just common stuff you can get from any patient community...

Still with the pattern of publishing, 2 years later, studies of lower qualities than the first ones published by ill patients. They aren't bigger, more rigorous or provide anything more. They simply add nothing unless more is actually done, bigger cohorts, prospective studies, and obviously not...

Aside from the vacuity of this mumbojumbo, I think I'm seeing the grand strategy: they're looking for the "neural circuits" of agency, of conscious thought, when people decide to do something and act on this will. They think that's we're failing. Because reasons. Probably having to do with how...

Yeah, it's bad. But, this: is all about perception. Basically any criticism against medicine is invalid. Everyone just has to suck it up, they know it all. Apparently it's a "hot take" that we have lower quality than most diseases. Evidence is just something you choose to believe or not based...

It's a valid argument now, and has been for some time, but the idea that LC is one of the reasons for this policy, which was set from the start, is laughable. It does score geopolitical points to thumb their nose about it, but I have no doubt that having LC in China isn't any better than...

The TL;DR I got of this study is naive T and B cells are low for at least 8 months. The 8 months is just the cut-off of the study. So it has to be taken with the same framing as Long Covid lasting up to X months because this is when the study ended. Which would be a good explanation for all the...

They are revealing their complete ineptitude by continuing to obsess over making it all about a single symptom, and not even at that, since they have an alternative definition of fatigue. They still don't have a freaking clue about any of this. It's been 2.5 years and the LC community is...

Putting numbers in perspective. A shift from 72% full-time employment to 44%, a drop of 28 percentage points, is basically apocalyptic in economic terms. At its height during the Great depression, unemployment was 25%. The main difference is that this is a subset of the population, but it's a...

Giant hammer has never a thing that didn't look like a crushed nail after it stomped it good: Lockdowns have been over for, what, 1.5 years? They lasted at most 4 months, maybe 6 in total? And were staggered anyway. And still people are seriously pretending it's a legitimate excuse? WTH...

Looks like a Goop summit, or might as well be. It's really pseudoscience all the way through, uh? That and a lot of self-congratulation.

Literally all EBM on the BPS model checks all those marks. All of it. I'm surprised self-awareness isn't there because this is showing less self-awareness than the average rock. Papers definitely get rejected for those reasons. They also definitely get accepted. Doesn't seem to make a...

It's pretty clear that the system is set up to make it worse for a journal to admit and correct a mistake than to keep it there, since as long as the mistake remains, most people assume it's because there is no mistake, otherwise they would have corrected it. So literally one of the foundations...

I think this may be performance art at this point. It's paywalled but the tweets show no indication of the obvious. Seems like we are headed for an especially stupid few years that will definitely feature a "what pandemic? never happened" at some point. This is what happens when people are sick...

The ironic thing about the guy talking about context is that it's always worse in context and the more context you add the worst it is. It's about outcomes and outcomes are simply disastrous, there's no polishing that turd. In the end, all of this falls under: it's not a lie if you believe it...

Took 12 years for the MMR paper. Weird how mistakes get repeated when failure is rewarded. So weird.

This does not clarify anything and is laughable considering, frankly, literally everything coming out of this ideology. All this talk is just as useless as everything said about physics and the universe before real science gave the right answer. Problem is that medicine doesn't have math to...

And there's that trope again. A trope with zero evidence. There is zero evidence that "rehabilitation" makes any difference in outcome, and most will be BPS anyway, so they will not understand it at all, while being convinced they do, the worst-case scenario, especially given the complete lack...

Everything I see suggests otherwise. Medicine is dominated by the tyranny of lab results. There are no lab results for depression and the current model is for all intents and purposes the exact same model as ME: hand-wavy BS about psychosocial stuff. So it's not surprising given that they are...

Is the flood after a huge storm a different natural disaster than the storm itself? Of course not, that's silly. The right way to frame this as a separate-but-connected crisis would be the huge neglected crisis of chronic illness, which is relevant in COVID but indeed a separate issue, a global...

Sometimes I wonder if by mind they don't mean soul because I have no idea what this has to do with some imaginary boundary between the brain and some spiritual or whatever concept of "the mind". Trying to cram old ideas into research just because those ideas are obsessively believed is a...