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There really should be an awareness day to bring attention to the plight of researchers who suffer from tunnel vision. That light they see ahead is often coming from a dead end.

Some leading ME researchers and clinicians say the treatment is safe and effective. They also say that if you don't have the treatment you'll never-the-less reach the same level of improvement as those who did receive it if you just wait one year's time. Meanwhile, there is considerable...

Although sometimes it seems mentioned as an afterthought, both Ian Lipkin and Mady Hornig have said that will also be looking at fungi as part of the Microbiome Discovery Project.

If they try to measure patients' "feelings" instead of their objective activity, they may just wind up measuring how comfortable patients are with lying to robots.

I'd be fairly concerned about this: I suppose memory loss (temporary or permanent) would be easy to notice if it were of something obvious like your spouse's name, your phone number, your address, etc... But how would you even know if you lost a memory of something more obscure, like your...

I swear I hear my robot therapist coming up the steps, but he never seems to get here.

How about a blue t-shirt? What could go wrong? "Hear me now and believe me later. You look like a flabby little girly man. Have you seen Sarah Connor? You need more exercise! I'm going to recommend some CBT. That's 'Conan's Barbarian Therapy.' Have you seen Sarah Connor? No, I am NOT a robot...

I wondered about this too, as the only definitive cognitive problem I can recall developing in the immediate aftermath of the onset of ME was "word finding." I noticed this problem quite early in the illness, years before there were any formal definitions of ME/CFS that included it. But, if you...

If the problem with the ICC is that it specifies too many symptoms - apparently thus capturing people with a primary psychiatric disorder because they will assert most every symptom in the book - I don't see how the solution to that problem is to use a criteria that lists fewer symptoms (like...

Took me a while to think of this, but... "Loss of agency" "Stripped of agency" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(sociology)

Well, looks like we won't be seeing a paper on hubris coming from him anytime soon.

If I understood this right, he thinks there is a single underlying mechanism that is capable of producing different symptoms in different patients. He also mentioned seeing different (genetic) mutations in different patients. I may be wrong, but it sounds kind of like the underlying mechanism...

This concept sounds somewhat similar to something done in Alcoholics Anonymous where people known as "sponsors" help to keep recovering alcoholics on the right track. The difference would be that, unlike the healthy member of a couple, AA sponsors have themselves followed a program of recovery...

Could have been worse... They might have asked patients to listen to this. :eek:

Have the inherent risks of shopping bag research taught us nothing?

The incredibly "useful," but wrong, Ptolemaic world system was so accurate (it was just as good at matching and predicting observations as the later Copernican system) that it managed to hold science back for 1500 years.

The estimate of 800,000 US cases is based on Leonard Jason's 1999 study. He found a 0.422% prevalence rate (95% confidence interval, 0.29%-0.56%) and applied it to the US adult population in 1997 (the actual figure was 836,000). However, the US adult population has increased since 1997, and so...

I think it has something to do with PACE being a thing of beauty, like an ocean liner, or something like that. [Note: No one perished in the incident below.]

I'm still reeling from the recent study that shows (as I've long suspected) that hand dryers in public restrooms are blowing bacteria all over your hands. :eek...

Well, given that the surface of the Earth is 510.1 trillion square meters, that's 408,080,000,000,000,000,000,000 (408.08 sextillion) viruses falling per day - or 53.7 trillion viruses per person. The HIV-1 virus weighs 1x10^-18 kg. If that was the average weight of all those viruses, about...