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This is not research. Throwing a bunch of meaningless questionnaires and hiding behind fake numbers is not doing research. These people have no idea what they're doing, clearly understand nothing about pain. And it's supposed to be a pain nursing journal. What is wrong with this damn...

Oh they bought the real version, not the lie sold to the public. Of course they don't believe the symptoms are real. That's what they bought: the lie, and lying about the lie. There are 2 versions here: the lie sold to the patients, "your symptoms are real, just not medical", and the real lie...

None of those are symptoms. Not sure where neurocognitive turned into fatigue, but if you're not actually treating neurocognitive symptoms, then you're not a neurocognitive treatment program. You're just very expensive quackery. And I guess we're at the point where they pretend that they build...

Or they could also not do any of that useless mumbo-jumbo and instead do their actual job, if someone could somehow figure out how to hold people accountable and motivate the people wasting public resources on junk like this. Or just kick them out entirely for being useless. Should be an easy...

That's how you just know you're doing good medicine and real science, when patients are forced to take the legal route. Again. And the worst part is that many of the people involved genuinely believe that. They have to, or the version of events they invented to justify their actions crumble...

I just mean meeting the arbitrary threshold of 30BPM increase. I'm not sure where the differences are, but there is a group of people whose heart rate just jumps like mad, I mean 150+ at the slightest exertion, can even stay there for hours. From what I've seen, this typically improves over...

You know, if all one did is look at correlations between investment in "mental health" and claims of a "mental health crisis", one may easily conclude that it's those investments that caused the crisis. More likely because the crisis is mostly inflated to justify employing all those people, who...

Skimming through to see what they think, and found this: Claims that medicine never took seriously the chemical imbalance BS are really impressive BS. Now they seem to think that "central fatigue" is just lack of motivation: Caused by inactivity perpetuated by lack of motivation: I doubt...

Loosely ChatGPT, I'm not sure exactly which model they are using behind the scenes, but Microsoft will soon be releasing their AI integration into Windows, called Copilot. There is a video showing use cases, keep in mind this is just the beginning...

And don't seem any better than the ME ones. I keep hearing that about POTS but the evidence just isn't there. It's pretty clear that wherever actual POTS is concerned, not dysautonomia or orthostatic intolerance, time is the only factor and otherwise nothing really works, at least not any better...

I'd honestly settle for speed. Doesn't need to be warp, just needs to be significantly above stationary.

That's something I said several times over the years, and I really don't know what to do with this. Our problems aren't unique, they are part of far larger and more fundamental issues within the profession. I don't think we can make much progress without either addressing those, reforming...

It is! But I kept it mysterious to avoid politics. Love this line. The parallels here are just too strong.

Frankly, criticism of the exercise trial is mostly not specifically about the trial, but about what it says about their priorities, or lack thereof. No one who knows what they're doing as part of a large research program would think this is a good idea, and yet they think it's a priority...

They've got a lot of theories, just no evidence for any of it. But the "theories" are beloved and infinitely believed. And they call it evidence-based medicine. Frankly, I can't wait enough for our medical AI overlords, even with all the risk to civilization, they can't do any worst than this...

Reddit: Where did this huge trend of POTs come from? The comments are not as despair-inducing as it can get, in fact the question is actually sincere, although weird because of the tiktok angle, but the poster says their wife has POTS so it doesn't seem to come from a bad place. But clearly, 3...

Failure, in a picture worth millions of words:

https://www.longcovidkids.org/post/feedback-on-the-long-covid-clinics-preliminary-healthcare-experiences-survey-findings Long Covid Kids is an informal group of parents and others supporting or caring for children sick with LC. This isn't a formal survey, but it seems to have been necessary...

Just another easy PhD. Nothing's changed since then, if anything this mindset has taken control of everything. Validity is of no concern, rejecting reality and substituting their own is the actual paradigm. But truly the fact that this is considered PhD worthy is absurd. This is not what PhDs...

Without fail, those FND papers merely recount what they do. They describe the steps they took and what they think of it. And that's it, it's assumed that it must be good and that all it takes is simply to describe it in order to make it valid. Very guru-like. They even ascribe themselves absurd...