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Yes, that is more accurate. :thumbup:

Were they just buying time?

Yes, it is. And with graded exercise too.

Translation: Mental illness is real too! Well, good thing nobody is saying it isn't. What is being said about your work and claims is that your definition of psychosomatic and how to diagnose and treat it is, um, problematic. At a very fundamental level. But you don't want to answer awkward...

I was able to access the article, and saved a copy of it. Only comment showing on it was this one: "I’d love to understand what the disagreement was. Without graded exercise is this a syndrome without any definitive diagnostic tests, defined pathological processor effective treatment."

Another Wessely. Very persuasive talker. Very unpersuasive scientist. Are there no alarm bells going off in neurology? Is nobody within the specialty starting to wonder that the FND claim is just too good and too broad to be true? At this rate Stone et al will have claimed all remaining...

They could get around losing control of the ME/CFS diagnostic category by 1. Changing an ME/CFS diagnosis to FND. 2. Diagnosing new patients as FND in the first place, simply bypassing ME/CFS completely and never having that diagnosis recorded on the patient's notes. 3. Adding an FND...

This. They want to be the first triage point in the health system. Let that sink in.

Yeah, I think the terms brainwashing & gaslighting are not wrong for PACE style CBT & GET.

Nobody can say they lied about what was in the bottle.

Nor by certain other researchers: "There was no association between level of functional impairment and degree of hyperventilation. There is only a weak association between hyperventilation and chronic fatigue syndrome." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8140219/ "However, no significant...

Wear that 'depression' like a champ. :slugish: This is the core of the problem with that claim. To be able to make such judgements requires those making them to have some grand sweeping view of the human condition and experience that is simply impossible. Extraordinary claims need...

Like some have been saying since the pandemic started.

Immunity to falsification must be high up the list of cardinal features of mind-body theories.

Interesting.

The quality of latex is variable. The good stuff should last decades. I have some latex pillows that are more than 20 years old, and still going strong.

Have not used a wheelchair so far, and know very little about them. But this company seem to be getting good reviews. https://whill.inc/us/products/

Vultures on steroids. They are going to force this shit onto every single disease. Just watch. This is what medical zealotry looks like.

This whole shit show has basically been a marketing and propaganda exercise, masquerading as medical science, in the service of naked empire building. And we have paid the price for it all.

Good thread, @Michiel Tack Besides the standard stuff of adequate sample size, good selection criteria, and relevant control groups, etc, my two biggies are outcome measures (must be either objective or adequately blinded, or both), and measuring PEM. We have decades of hard undeniable real...