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In what sense? Cutting edge researchers do not normally produce social media threads of garbled messages about off label treatments.

I don't understand that sentence. I meant that the term is universally used to imply that the clinical features are due to inappropriate thoughts, secondary gain, so-called conversion disorder or whatever. That is what doctors mean. That has nothing to do with what is actually wrong - which we...

Putrino isn't an immunologist or even, as far as I know, a medic. Why is he writing this stuff? There are no useful data. What is the justification?

Fair enough but I wonder if we should be so pessimistic. MEA seem to have acquired £3M research funds for nothing in particular. IiME raise enough to run very costly conferences every year. If S4ME members decided to donate to the website which is already there, for this precise purpose, and...

How would you devise an honest information sheet for patients?

Functional has a bad name because it was devised and is universally used by doctors to mean behavioural/psychological despite the fact that they deny this in writings they know may be read by patients. Seizures are not classifiable as functional but there are recognisable groups of movement...

Or in this case shamanism.

Pity she had not done some rheumatology. Steroid injections often produce permanent resolution of symptoms probably because they have a potent local shrinking effect on tissue matrix. She probably had a tongue of soft tissue nipped between some bony healing spurs and the steroid shrank it back...

As someone who has done an MA course in philosophy I can say no to that. 'Continental' philosophy, with scare quotes, is defined as a particular stance. It was popular in Germany and France, yes, but so was analytic philosophy in some circles.

Does it? To me it could be 'that simple'. There doesn't need to be any formal appeal as far as I can see. We live in 'viral' times, in more ways than one. If there is an account to donate to all that is needed is for us to make it known to each other that there is a will to raise a substantial...

Doing it through Sonya sounds a good plan to me if it is more complicated than just sending donations to an Edinburgh account already set up. But the latter would be the simplest of all.

I am not sure what 'leadership' means here. People often donate large sums of money to research units without being asked by the unit - in legacies for instance. Jo and I had a legacy of over £100,000 out of the blue on one occasion. It would obviously be useful to know how the Edinburgh people...

Although Freud and, I am pretty certain, Engel, were Jewish. I suspect that the whole field may be an offshoot of a North/Central European pattern of thinking called Continental Philosophy, which is mostly hot air. The same sort of story continues with the idea that our experience of the world...

Freudian hogwash has always been speciality of the centre left.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/26/the-mindbody-revolution-how-the-division-between-mental-and-physical-illness-fails-us-all Nice Guardian journalist chatting to her chum Simon. All about how dreadful mind-body dualism is. Which of course it is - and mind-body dualism (aka...

DecodeME was funded and is winding up with data analysis in the first half of this year. But if funding cannot be secured for the next big project over the next six months the unit may well be unable to retain the team and all that has been learnt from working as a team. Science funding tends...

It is none of my business how people with ME/CFS want to spend their money on research but I do think there is an opportunity now to try to raise perhaps £250K (it might turn out more) to ensure that the follow through from DecodeME is as well supported as possible. So far the capacity of the...

I wonder why Lawrence Afrin is not an author.

If I was not preoccupied this week I might think about a very brief letter to the BMJ basically saying that it is essential that the international medical community has taken note of Hilda Bastian's recent statements and their implications for Cochrane's credibility. I might get around to it...

The things you are liable to read in the 'scientific literature' Ain't necessarily so.