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Posts on Flottorp's appearance on the debate program Dagsnytt 18 has been moved to the thread Lightning Process study in Norway - Given Ethics Approval February 2022 as her appearance on the debate program was due to this study.

Posts about Flottorp's appearance on Dagsnytt 18 has been moved from the Norway: Opinion piece on "Facts and myths about ME" by Reme, Flottorp and Wyller thread.

I started a discussion about LP with a GP who said no GP would ever believe in such stories as those from Recovery Norway... so in addition to the reasons already posted I guess many just won't believe it happens and it's easier to blame patients for "misunderstanding".

No one is disagreeing with that. As I mentioned in an earlier post, in other examples where Mensans have been used as study samples: In annual national meetups where only the most social people would be expected to go, making the problem even worse than it already is. I think someone could make...

Those people do exist, but most Mensans I know don't talk about their membership and Mensa i just a social club to meet other people with different interests. For me as a kid knowing there were others who struggled at school because teachers would make fun of them/punish them for "knowing too...

To me it seems like outliers have been removed in their plot, while you've kept them in yours. If you filter out the top and bottom participants from both groups (and use geom_quasirandom/play around with how wide your groups can be, and change to theme_classic) I think they will look the same...

The short treatment with metformin could also mean that patients have gastrointestinal side effects (that usually pass over time) which could cause them to change their diet short term and would also contribute to changes in the microbiome.

Yes, I think most/all Mensa groups use figure reasoning tests. Though, it is possible to apply for membership using Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or other tests done somewhere else (I think this one also has a figure reasoning test. At least I did one when I had my neurocognitive...

A study was done on Norwegian Mensa members, and it turned out they were better than non-mensans at recognizing feelings by looking at body postures. I had some fun with a psychology student discussing the framing of that study :rofl...

Hm, this is somewhat similar to vitamin D. Pre-treating cells with vitamin D before exposing them to something that decrease barrier function makes them better able to resist the damaging effects. (NB, don't think I've seen studies using relevant concentrations of vitamin D and/or barrier...

But type of exercise can matter., at least for me I would regularly burn 2x my basal metabolic rate in a remission I had a few years ago, my fitbit shows months of high, intense activity in that period. That was walking, mountain hiking and biking more or less every day. But if I tried lifting...

And not everyone will mount a strong antibody response at all. So no, a negative antibody test does not necessarily mean there was no infection. Not surprised by who wrote that forskning.no article.

The Norwegian National Institute of Public Health has also done a review of long covid, and for those of you who know the NIPH view of ME it comes as no surprise that long covid is being downplayed. Nå vet forskerne mer om long covid Now the researchers know more about long covid In the...

Water with aspartame? I'm not a fan of artificial sweeteners, I feel the potential issues (microbiome alterations, change in taste/hunger stimuli etc) are difficult to measure and so won't be picked up in general testing.

Kunst has also made a good intervew at psykologisk.no after his and Fjelltun's opinion piece. It's behind paywall: Reagerer på innblanding i Lightning Process-studien: – Ironisk Responding to interference in the Lightning Process study: - Ironic Subtitle: - Time and time again, the patients are...

As someone who has written a degree on a subject not very related to what the supervisor(s) is actually working on, I don't think I got a single comment on how I approached what I did.

The National Ethics Committee has written a short comment on the case and the general workings of NEM. Svar til Twitter: Slik foregår saksbehandling i NEM Reply to Twitter: This is how case processing takes place in NEM

The locals news outlet for NTNU, that is the university responsible for the study, also writes about the case today. A better recap of the story than forskning.no in my opinion: FHI-SJEF PRØVDE Å PÅVIRKE NEMND-MEDLEM - Uheldig sammenblanding av roller FHI MANAGER TRIED TO INFLUENCE BOARD...

Forskning.no has written about this today. FHI-sjef prøvde å påvirke etisk godkjenning av ME-forskning FHI chief tried to influence ethical approval of ME research "Befring believes the problem with the inquiry is Flottorp's position of power in FHI and the use of characteristics of the...

My story is similar to yours. I started to get ill in my late teens. Gifted, top of my class, started to struggle cognitively (and physically). I couldn't do simple math like add 2 and 3 together (always loved math and numbers), I couldn't read novels (again something I loved), I couldn't follow...