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I still, after all these years, struggle with wrapping my head around the level of sheer arrogance, delusion, dishonesty, and callousness required to believe that they understand our situation and how to manage it, and have the right to force it upon us, when all the evidence clearly says...

A biopsychosocial treatment approach [27] is necessary Jeebus, they are just getting worse and worse.

intestinal barrier damage Interesting.

Unfortunately, they are. A predictable, and long predicted, consequence of removing falsification and adequate control from the methodological checklist. Open ended, untestable, blatantly inconsistent speculation becomes de rigeur, and nobody (or at least nobody who matters) in the quality...

Mind over matter is the most insidious and tenacious belief I have ever seen in humans. We desperately want to believe that we can control the world to a far greater extent than we really can. It corrupts even the most intelligent, educated, decent, and experienced of people. Nobody is immune to...

I watched it and it is pretty good, especially for somebody coming to it with no background in the field (far as I know). Didn't like that she kept referring to ME as CFS, but it's an easy mistake to make for the uninitiated, and ME was not the focus of the video, so not too worried about it...

Indeed. Any properly qualified charlatan knows it has to be a chicken suit.

Yep. Don't want to be that guy, but I have yet to see any fundamental changes in the UK for patients, at any level. Thus far it looks like nothing more than a PR job to hang onto their empires and incomes. These people really have no shame or remorse. They just don't care.

And very deliberate. They know exactly what they are doing, and how nasty and cruel it is. That is the point. Expect a flood of crocodile tears at the suffering and deaths that will result.

As the Oxford university psychologist Dorothy Bishop has written, we only know about the ones who get caught. In her view, our “relaxed attitude” to the scientific fraud epidemic is a “disaster-in-waiting”. Too late. Waaaaaay too late. The fact that it has taken so long to even start...

It is increasingly recognised that a significant proportion of patients who experience chronic inflammatory conditions, chronic pain conditions, other chronic illnesses, chronic stressful experiences such as war, as well as patients with more short-term illnesses including viral diseases, will...

The DWP say in their press release that the new changes will not be introduced until 2025 and that most existing claimants will not be affected: "existing claimants" But if you are a new applicant...

Second of my two donations done. :thumbup:

Always thought that neuroplasticity is waaaaaaay oversold, and is much more limited than its proponents claim. If it was so powerful than we could all play the piano to concert standard with a bit of practice. But as somebody who taught guitar for a while I can tell you for certain that adults...

And often don't want to, because it confronts them with the limits of their competence, and they don't know what to do about it. So it just gets framed as a psychological and sometimes even a moral pathology, and effectively dismissed.

Which is what you would expect to see in patients who are persistently misdiagnosed and mistreated for decades. It tells us absolutely nothing about the validity of the SSD/FSS constructs.

I voted "It depends". I certainly think participants should have their costs covered. Beyond that gets problematic because potentially perverse incentives start coming into play.

This.

The service offers evidence-free interventions to patients with persistent symptoms (of more than six months’ duration) which are not due to any known underlying pathology.

Remains to be seen, but at this stage if I had to make a bet I would say they are basically the same thing, or so closely related that they are the same for clinical purposes.