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Judith Rosmalen will receive a good chunk of that money. Specialised in psychosomatics/MUS/"functional" syndromes, close collaborator with Sharpe, Knoop,Wessely and Chalder, vice president of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (President Michael Sharpe, vice secretary Per Fink)...

Great for Victoria. :) And good of the BBC to report on it, including what is needed to diagnose it. I can't remember the source or in what context, but I recently read a whole CBT/BPS thing on these symptoms, explaining how wanting to be near a toilet because of sudden upcoming diarrhea was...

For me the cause of these recent developments in the dutch ZonMw project for biomedical research into ME/CFS most probably falls in this category.

In case I wasn't clear, I was referring to: (That link does not work for me today btw., did it still work for you on Friday?) And you're absolutely sure she's taking ME/CFS serious as a biomedical illness? She might be great, but for me this triggers all kinds of alarm bells. Notions about...

Some worrying developments: Lou Corsius terminated his membership of the sounding board group on the ME/CFS biomedical research program He also made a complaint to ZonMw that got rejected for no good reason (as agreed by the National Ombudsman) The ME/CVS Vereniging started a FOI request to...

Hello @Richard Smallfield, For the US up to 1994 (and a "10 years later" epilogue) Hillary Johnson's book "Osler's Web" is a major source. One of the issues there was that researchers of the CDC, who found the idea that patients were really sick laughable, used the assigned funding from...

There's also a reply by Ramsay to the Lloyd et al article that is not accessible via the link given (better not click the link given at that time by Anniekim, my computer gave a safety warning for the page). If anyone has that, I'd be interested as well. (Tagging you too @anniekim , although...

The full text is no longer (?) available for free unfortunately. Did anyone happen to save a copy?

What, you've never mobilized your insights? :p An initial stab at editing would be: Using insights gained from studies in social epistemology and epistemic injustice, we've analysed how people contributing to news articles use social diversion (?) as a tool. We've found contributors...

Analysing who gets listened to and assigned authority and credibility (and why/how), and how people are positioned/stigmatized in reporting on a "controversial" topic involving marginalised groups while vested interest are involved is very important. Understanding how exactly epistemic injustice...

I'm glad to hear you've found a solution that will probably work for both of you. You say your partner's friend has gotten to know you well - (If it's the honest truth -->) maybe you are comfortable and well enough to also greet her warmly yourself for a short moment and express your regret at...

I think it's a dubbeltje op z'n kant, a dime on its side as the dutch expression goes. The arrival of Long Covid both strengthened and weakened psychosomatic medicine, and I find it difficult to say on which side the coin will fall. In theory psychosomatic medicine should get a hard and...

I'm not going to read this today, and I'm not well-versed in FND or its background, but if it's the rewrapping of conversion disorder then this is absolutely grotesque.

An good article by one of the paper's authors Trude Schei on Health Rising: Having Severe ME/CFS: A Report From Norway - Health Rising (Apart from this being an incredibly important topic to investigate and record & spread good info on, I also quite like the figures in general: I think the...

Interesting vid. There's basically a shift happening towards "not about us without us" in a field where working in the exact opposite way (about them without them, by people with no personal experience of what they're building their career on taking an authority position "above" their study...

Good morning! Without clues I think it's useless to speculate . What I find of main concern is that SW's claim of "not being part of it" and regularly posing as an independent party justified to give "outsider" comment on the PACE trial is utter baloney. He's been closely involved, so the...

Not sure if this was better as a separate thread or in here (where it's a bit buried), but due to a Twitter thread by @Adam pwme I came across, I decided on a whim to combine the video, blog and MRC screenshots in the thread with things from my own collection regarding Wessely's denial about...

Yes, indeed good to have this documented. Thank you for puzzling it together! Lol, I know what that's like! I still really want to write my analysis about the similarities between the actions of the tobacco and oil companies to create ignorance and keep a set-up controverse going and the...

A newspaper article on this review and the Royal College of Psychiatrist's response to it are discussed here.

I'm not sure if this is the thread to place this in (I though there was another thread on the response to NG206, but I can't find it), but I wanted to mention the Royal College of Psychiatrists' response to the recent Moncrieff et al review (discussed here in this thread) where they find "no...