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Performative marketing.

For example, antibiotics, which are not really amenable to that kind of titration and ramping to get to the baseline dose.

I think these need more attention. Pretty sure I have some form of disruption to the water cycle. I seem to process water faster than before, and have had a few bouts of some form of polyuria, even when my bladder is clearly empty, typically lasting a few hours. Whatever the opposite of...

And some pretty extreme prejudice, spilling over into outright bigotry and even a bit of hate.

I don't have an in-principle problem with questionnaires (i.e. self-report). But I have a major problem with how they are currently constructed, interpreted, and used, especially when used on their own in unblinded trials.

It isn't even that much. It is merely reporting that they feel a bit better.

+1 I agree that tactics and strategy have to adapt to changing circumstances. At least one order of magnitude. +1 We don't need large scale funding so much as consistent and well directed funding, that is nimble and can quickly start following up good leads. Though we certainly also do need...

Thanks for your efforts on this @Joan Crawford, and your like-minded colleagues.

Or setting the desired outcome to be a value of one, then picking an arbitrary number and multiplying it by its inverse. Or multiplying and/or dividing one by one an arbitrary number of times. You will, of course, always get one. QED! :grumpy:

Even if you lose you still have plenty of love.

Nath continued his intimidation and vilification campaign telling advocates that they if they continue to be critical of intramural ME study, future ME research is at risk. If the quality of the research at NIH under Nath is all they are offering us, then stopping it at least leaves us no worse...

Only towards sanity.

If you really mean that, Director Bertagnolli, then your first step must be to immediately remove Wallit from his leadership of any ME/CFS, LC, and GWI programs. Otherwise it is just more empty words from the top.

We need more funding, but equally we need far better use of that funding.

The current younger generation of medicos, those from 1st year med school through to approx. 10 years post-grad, really need to make the effort to get up to speed with what is going wrong in their profession over this stuff, because they are the generation who will have to be apologising for and...

A golden opportunity missed: According to our own @Snow Leopard, reduction in power at the ventilatory threshold on the 2nd day is the primary finding in 2-day CPET tests in ME/CFS. This study only did single tests at each time point. Still, a useful paper.

Medicine as performance.

Recent findings suggest that low-grade inflammation has a role in the development and maintenance of pediatric FSDs. The findings indicate that inflammatory response may have a role in the pathophysiology of pediatric FSDs. Hence, not 'functional'.

That would be good old fashioned convalescence, which is very much out of fashion today. Worth repeating. There is a very serious psycho-social factor in play here. But it is the damage being done by inappropriate assertion by the experts that the problem is primarily a psycho-social one...

It's pathetic, isn't it. Just doesn't make any difference what the actual results are, somehow they always get spun into psycho-causation.