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Wessely famously whined that if ME can be considered a disease, than so should schizophrenia. Dude really has incredible talent as a reverse Cassandra, you can set your watch to the opposite of what he says.

Easier-to-digest article: https://scitechdaily.com/placenta-not-brain-groundbreaking-study-shifts-the-schizophrenia-narrative/. A new study conducted by the Lieber Institute for Brain Development suggests that the risk of schizophrenia is largely due to the role of over 100 associated genes in...

Prioritization of potential causative genes for schizophrenia in placenta https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38140-1 Abstract Our earlier work has shown that genomic risk for schizophrenia converges with early life complications in affecting risk for the disorder and sex-biased...

It's seriously maddening that they make it impossible to work with the consequences of chronic illness because they keep deciding they want them to be causes. Absurd. It's all correlational, and they have no issue deciding on a preferred causation. Literally, just because: When your homework...

(Visible app is a mobile app health tracker for chronic illness, created by long haulers but applicable for ME as well. Thread here.).

I've seen this quite a few times in LC papers. They mention data availability on request, but reserve the right to withhold for any reason. It's usually put in some form of "give us a good study proposal and we'll consider it", but of course that's exactly the same as no sharing, as they would...

I'll avoid the source material because it's political, but there's a really good video about this phenomenon titled "The card says Moops". It's about exploiting an obvious mistake, allowing to pretend to respect the letter of the law, while violating the spirit. Especially while knowing it goes...

With the headline I expected the usual bad but this is a pretty good article from an MD with Long Covid. Are We Ready for the Long COVID Long-Haul? — The COVID public health emergency may be over, but this condition isn't going away https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/104481...

They're really not trying hard, uh? As in, not at all. How can they talk about GET being commonly used without evidence and find nothing wrong with that? In 3) they explicitly state that they need evidence against to stop using something that has no evidence for. This is insane. In 4) they...

Very good summary of where we are. Which is a very bizarre nexus of trying to bridge reality with fiction, and a bunch of lies. The kind of consensus where nothing happens because one side, dedicated to sabotage, is fine with indefinite paralysis and inflicting infinite harm onto millions. They...

But the denial of excess deaths, and disability, puts the blame on them anyway. All of it. It's very popular to blame LC issues on vaccines, and the excess deaths, and all the, let's go with respected, issues like strokes and things that have validated diagnoses. Which is sometimes true, but...

Of course it does. This is just a cop-out from the fact that most treatments have zero effect but they've been marketed and sold as having an effect but they can't show it. So basically like how Theranos managed to scam people for years because no one insisted on seeing the actual machine in...

Not invisible, though. Just covered up. That's what cover-ups do: they hide failures.

Won't even bother reading this. More simply to collect how silly things can get. There doesn't seem to be a limit that won't be crossed in excusing failure. I think the profession has completely lost its mind and legitimacy, but it is serving politicians who also badly want to cover up the...

There is almost no research on the health impacts of the vast majority of chemicals and pollution people are exposed to, because the basis of medical research, control groups, is almost never available. Medicine really needs better methodologies than this standard approach, quality control...

JAMA Neurol. Published online May 15, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2023.1168 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/2805037 Key points Question Is Parkinson disease risk increased in military service members who were stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North...

WTF is this nonsense? We are supposed to have left the world of angels and fairies, not to replace them with other generic BS. It's the ease with which people BS about this that is terrifying. It comes so naturally. It's like health and medicine are fair game to talk nonsense, as long as it's...

Looks like the Clock team to me. What a terrible waste. IIRC Absoud is a GBD signatory. They literally give open deniers funding to study something they deny, minimize and trivialize. And using healthcare records, which have been shown to be inadequate and not reflective of reality. In fact it...

I can't find hope in any of those promises anymore, but at least this is on target. I don't know what the G7 decision means, we'll have to wait for details, but there are very few organizations, if any, that can deliver something here. More than anything, because every single word of every...

My impression from this is that they whenever they say medical harm they simply mean something they're obligated to act on. Medical harm = have to go to the hospital (or at the very least an urgent appointment to a clinic) where they have to do something because it meets their legal criteria to...