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I saw Gaffney heralding the findings recently. These people are such shameless purveyors of an ideology with a litany of contradictions, instances of groupthink, and disqualifying biases.

Yes, I believe they ultimately enrolled and assessed 17 patients for the second phase of the study. The first phase was determining whether the individuals had some other condition responsible for their symptoms. I’m almost certain this is the case. I tuned in to a webinar discussion where...

Dare I ask what prominent minimizers?

I can’t fathom why anybody is eagerly anticipating the grand reveal of the intramural study data. The 17 patient cohort will be immediately laughed out of existence by the minimizers and BPS acolytes. We will cite it to our own detriment, and all the while, the FND crowd will continue to empire...

In my experience, I’ve seen Grin behave in an incredibly pugilistic and unprofessional fashion on Twitter. He’s certainly no friend to us, though I’m sure funneling an endless stream of FND patients to his physical therapy business could be quite lucrative.

My vision became rather moribund within 48 hours of the acute infectious illness that rendered me an ME casualty. Since then, I’ve had a corneal confocal microscopy confirm severe damage to the small nerve fibers in the cornea. According to the ophthalmologist, this provided unequivocal evidence...

Wouldn’t want to overdose on mindfulness. This stuff is so ridiculous and the inevitable consequence of a profession thinking this is all patients deserve

Is there still no idea who this is? I guess it’s too much for us to ask what experts will be on this zoom

I love how the title is high “perceived” stress. They won’t even concede that the stress is warranted in their own fantasy. It’s saying that these people (patients) don’t really entertain stressful existences, they just whine about ordinary life events.

Professor Edwards, what do you think the British medical community makes of Carson’s approach to Long Covid? Is he an immensely respected physician in this space? Do colleagues turn to him? It seems he purports to know what causes these persistent symptoms, based on this latest article

But isn’t it so obvious that’s what he means? It’s just a more discursive way of reaching the same conclusion

I wonder what the tried and tested rehabilitative processes Alan Carson feels strongly about? How the connection between brain and body have gone awry? Why do patients keep falling for this garbage?

I read this piece yesterday and encourage everyone here to do so as well. Sharpe recites the same insipid points while Garner is as pugilistic as ever. It’s unhinged.

McWhirter is an Alan Carson underling if I recall correctly. I believe her area of interest is the pseudoscientific realm of “functional cognitive disorder.” If it’s not dementia, it must be psychogenic. This is like a religious cult. I think it must give a lot of these folks a sense of immense...

This is essence of what the BPS model purports to be. Carson and Stone would cite their clinics as the paradigmatic examples of this very ethos. What was Strain thinking, unless he’s now imbibed the Kool-Aid too?

This piece is being celebrated in predictable quarters. The narrative is that fear of a massive wave of disability was totally unfounded and the product of mass hysteria. Those who are disabled are also likely the products of mass hysteria. Jeff Wise is being heralded as the journalist we need...

Is this the piece recently published by Jeff Wise, who wrote an abysmal and atrocious hit job on patients in NY Mag??

This guide to recognizing the emotions purportedly leading to these persistent symptoms and unblocking treatment defeating behaviors is honestly one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen. There is no difference between these insipid and platitudinous missives and something you would hear from...

I’ve never heard of George Smith, but it appears he’s a major player in this network. I’m also American and still familiarizing myself with the endless stream of UK BPS minions

I would interpret them as suggesting Royal Free is a mass hysteria event, and that Wessely should write about both that incident and it’s progeny, I.e. ME. I could be misreading this, but I sadly think it’s just another instance of ME patients being a favorable punching bag