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The problem with fMRI is that it often doesn't answer a question so much as ask a whole bunch of new ones. There are usually too many factors involved and too many possible explanations. It is a very interesting tech, but we do not always use it in a way that helps clarify the situation.

Current BPS ideology = heads they win, tails everybody else loses. It is unfalsifiable, and immune to correction.

It is much worse than that. They are confusing reporting feeling better with feeling better, and hence with being better. Getting people to change what they say is not in itself a meaningful benefit. At least, not to the patient. Might benefit the clinician's and researcher's career. Medicine...

The main, and possibly only, genuine benefit of 'optimism' is that it is more socially acceptable and hence rewarded – it attracts more resources and protection.

Ends on October 31, at 11:59 PM PDT.

Yep, the onus is on those making the claim to justify it.

Magical thinking is a powerful aphrodisiac.

Don't you dare stop being picky. :thumbup:

I think people like Fitzpatrick and the whole RCP crowd are just attention-seekers, who simply can't stand being ignored. They cannot do constructive peace-time, so they generate destructive conflict instead as a substitute. Politics is full of these kind of people.

IIRC, Wessely has claimed that the placebo effect is one of the most powerful medicines we have, or something to that effect.

These guys do like playing the victim role, don't they.

This.

Historians of medicine will describe this era as the Age of Acronyms.

Especially when those who created the mess are still in power and doing everything they can to prevent it being cleaned up. :grumpy:

Falling could be a secondary symptom in the elderly. If you are already getting unsteady on your feet, something like CFS could significantly exacerbate it. Similar possibilities for other common symptoms of ageing, like lower quality sleep, cognition, coordination, stamina, vision issues, etc.

Shh. Don't give them any ideas.

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If you load up a car beyond its designed carrying capacity, it is not going to perform well or last long. Doesn't mean the design or construction of the car is at fault. Same for ME patients. If the ME places an excess burden on patients past their normal healthy capacity, then any additional...

A cynical person might think this is exactly the response Garner was trying to provoke. Until the veracity and provenance of the alleged threats is independently established, then he has nothing.