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This is an extremely disingenuous excuse. If they had had good results you can be 1000% certain that they would have hyped this as undeniable objective proof. We know this. They know this. We can pretend, but of course this is nothing but a cheap BS excuse. It shows how this entire discipline...

I have Google alerts for most of this stuff, and saw maybe 5-7 articles on the day of publication and that's about it. For English language anyway, I assume it's being hyped a lot in The Netherlands. But otherwise yeah it's pretty much the same dozen or so people. Literally just a few dozens...

I think that the ambiguity is used on purpose. Psychometric is specific to psychology, it shouldn't be used for this, not what it's meant for. The proper term would simply be questionnaires, or questionnaire-based, but that sounds less scientific than psychometric, which falsely creates the...

In Canada, healthcare is a provincial authority. The federal government sets some standards and can provide additional funds but the provinces decide how most of it gets used, this is defined in the constitution. A provincial health authority in Quebec published guidelines for ME that are pretty...

I don't know where else to post this, but it's hard to imagine that this thinking will not influence the government's denial of LC. I'm legitimately trying to imagine a computer security expert advising people to not only uninstall their antivirus, but to actually make it a fun challenge to...

Little? None. EBM is not a scientific process. Without the absurdly low standards of EBM, none of this would have ever been recommended. But it is precisely because it's not scientific that it's used. It gives false positives. So many false positives. And false positives are A-grade hopium. IMO...

Completely useless research, then. It evaluates what physicians record, not what's happening. Actually it's probably more about what they're instructed to do. And we know for a fact that they almost record nothing of the issues with LC, clearly by instruction, as for example doctors don't "like"...

I keep seeing regular mentions in non-LC forums about chronic illness, say POTS, who were dismissed just as insultingly as before but had the privilege of hearing some MD rant about how those fashionable diagnoses are out of control recently. And they are completely unable to make the connection...

It's hard to straddle that line without hitting the limits of political discourse but... this is the same problem with terrorism. It's not possible to attack an ideology head on. People can be defeated. Ideas endure beyond people. When an idea has captured a culture, people will line up to...

Yeah there's not a lot of work involved in selling cars that have already been pre-sold. It's about the same level of difficulty as selling clean water in the desert. It's probably harder not to sell it, as you'd pretty much have to fight off everyone grabbing it while ignoring all the money...

Was curious about the article, but there's only a single sentence. However this is interesting, the accompanying photo gives the name of the LP coach. And they claim to treat, well, basically anything: Stroke, Head Injuries, Concussion, Parkinsons, Guillain-Barre Syndrome Menopause, PND...

Come to think of it, if enough people develop autoimmune disease to remove the possibility of a control population, the current methods of medicine will essentially make it impossible to see any of it anymore because there wouldn't be significant differences. That won't happen but wow does it...

Wow. S C I E N C E. For sure they could. Genius. Why didn't anyone think of that before? That's the kind of high quality smart thinking you expect from real experts.

So those are just confirmed diagnoses found in health records from a short list. Which are always an undercount. And in a context where healthcare keeps getting more expensive while delivering less for it, about an issue that they famously struggle with. For sure the response to this will be...

Aside from the pseudoscientific BS about CBT, someone on twitter asked a question that needs to be asked and almost never is: what the hell does CBT have to do with sleeping habits and the other themes they chose? This is exactly as substantial as using CBT to teach cooking. Why? Literally no...

There have literally been hundreds of trials over decades. Textbooks, books, conferences, treatment models and many more have been built on the back of this scarce efficacy. This is just another one of the hundreds of identical trials done before. They straight up don't care what's valid or...

That's the nature of a con. It is about expressing excessive confidence about the perfection of the product. And ultimately it's that confidence that is sold, the mirage of a miraculous product. There is no product, just the promise of an outcome. It's based on the shadiest sales tactics and no...

Very nice and well-deserved, but I really dislike language like ME being recognized as significant. It absolutely hasn't and we've seen decades of headlines saying the same thing. We are no further 3 years into LC than we've ever been, everything still rests on a tiny number of motivated...

It's Hans Knoop, so it will be heavily marketed. I don't know how these people sleep at night lying so hard about everything they do: And yet they know perfectly that this is exactly how it's perceived and applied in the medical profession, entirely because of their work. Shysters, grifters...

Frankly, the more terrifying explanation is that he probably has, and it made zero difference in his understanding of the condition. They truly can see whatever they want indefinitely, LC has shown that there is simply no limit to how delusional it can get. Reality just doesn't factor into their...