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Patients forced to touch a scalding pot of water exhibited greater anxiety than controls. Therefore, we conclude the resulting first degree burns are merely an extreme behavioral response that can be addressed through bespoke CBT. these logical fallacies don’t pass the laugh test. I don’t...

The proliferation of discussions and scholarship on FND always leaves me beyond despondent. It seems like such an inevitable way to subvert recent progress in untethering ME from the BPS model. On one hand, many of those involved in perpetuating FND nonsense were also instrumental in ME...

I don’t know anything about the Spiked author, but I’m fairly certain the other fellow has a sizable following. Either way, disconcerting.

I believe it suggests, in the case of ME, that individuals are frustrated with their unachievable ambitions and rather unimpressive lives. Having failed to garner recognition a legitimate way, they turn to bogus disabilities for attention and meaning

it’s reminiscent of the Spiked article regarding Long Covid. Presenting patients as meandering, sick role seeking, upper middle class whites is a time honored bipartisan trope. In fact it may be the only principle that left and right can recite in unison. Someone, perhaps the always eloquent...

it’s reminiscent of the Spiked article regarding Long Covid. Presenting patients as meandering, sick role seeking, upper middle class whites is a time honored bipartisan trope. In fact it may be the only principle that left and right can recite in unison. Someone, perhaps the always eloquent...

Presumably researchers who associate with patients cured by methods such as the Lightning Process would be considered “independent of the ME community.” It’s just those who entertain the delusions of militant patients who would be barred. The illogic of this is mystifying.

Dare I ask what constitutes related functional somatic symptoms? Perez seems to publish literature more prolifically than anyone I’ve encountered. “Flooding the zone” is often an effective strategy. Produce so much drivel that it’s impossible to rebut every insipid, pseudo scientific argument...

One of the principle critiques of the biomedical approach to ME, emanating from BPS quarters, is that much of the research constitutes “biobabble.” I believe one of psychiatrists, maybe Santhouse, used this term in a well received book not too long ago. If we can’t decimate papers that eschew...

And according to some prominent physician-pundits, that new condition is… hysteria. I guess I should use FND as that is what they believe will placate the feral patients they encounter.

One other thing. This paper, coupled with the Brigette Ranque missive surrounding beliefs of having Covid= higher incidence of long Covid, could prove catastrophic for patients. I hate to sound alarmist, but the playing field is decidedly uneven. Patients and their advocates need to produce...

Gaffney offers condescending pseudo-compassion while his wife seems to derive some sort of less diplomatic pleasure in framing this as hysteria. I believe I saw Gaffney mention that this study opens the door to functional neurological disorder explaining the symptoms, and moreover, using...

imagine how ghoulish one would have to be to regurgitate BPS talking points in response to this harrowing and courageous segment? Alas, there are several individuals on social media doing just that. It’s exactly why Medicine is so systemically shattered. We need the type of overhaul in this...

How is the designation of ME as a somatoform disorder good news for anyone? How does it signify a change, let alone a positive one, for patients? Who is this author, and how does anything she publishes pass the laugh test?

Even if the audience is more favorably predisposed to left wing policies, contempt for ME/CFS is a longstanding point of bipartisan consensus. Again, I don’t see anyone listening in sprinting to the vanguard of ME advocacy. Nor do I see their views permeating any discussions on disease processes...

Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric coincides with a general antipathy toward the pandemic response - lockdowns, masks, precautionary measures, etc. Those who gravitate toward such a philosophy would find the notion of Long Covid to be a fatuous creation designed to prolong restrictions and stoke...

Irrespective of the etiological speculation that occurred during the Kennedy/Johnson podcast, I do believe that some positives emerged. The Kennedy listeners would likely be those who would malign us as malingering, psychosomatic, welfare cheats, etc. He appeared incredibly empathetic and...

I should have proffered a more cogent response initially. I didn’t mean that Gez would spur a revolution in interest from outside, unaffiliated parties. I meant that his endorsement of the trauma narrative would drum up the same antiquated tropes from the usual suspects, and indeed it has...

Predictably, the Medinger trauma narrative is being gleefully cited by a slate of actors, including those with ties to the functional neurological domain. Once this genie gets out of the bottle, it’s impossible to contain. I feel like the only thing that can forestall it is definitive...

Gez recently defended the video and position on the grounds that it’s resonating with a majority of long Covid sufferers. He couldn’t contemplate that his Twitter respondents weren’t: (a) representative of a majority of Long Covid sufferers, and (b) a representative of a cross section of long...