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A summary of papers in which BPS proponents disproved both their current hypotheses and interpretations of findings in past research papers and reviews but fail to acknowledge this would be fine I think. The biggest challenge of that task seems to be to focus on the most relevant points, as...

R. Cairns, M. Hotopf, A systematic review describing the prognosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, Occupational Medicine, Volume 55, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 20–31, https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqi013 Content only available as PDF...

The full text will be made "Free in PMC on Dec 1, 2021; PubMed " Until then: https://sci-hub.se/10.1177/1742395318815965

PubMed author manuscript (free access): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123286/

One of the largest companies of compulsory statutory health insurance in Germany, the 'Techniker Krankenkasse' updated their information about ME/CFS. In their rubric 'treatments and medicine' / neurological limitations, they say: (Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator, free version)...

@Simon M -- I realize you are busy with the DecodeME study as much as your health allows.But I would love to see this on your or @dave30th 's blog. Perhaps @chrisb could help with a short introduction and others could help with adding references if needed?

Article in Springer Medizin Österreich by Karina Sturm: Karina Sturm: Chronische Erschöpfung ist so viel mehr als Müdigkeit | springermedizin.at / 2021-09-10 https://www.springermedizin.at/infektiologie/chronische-erschoepfung-ist-so-viel-mehr-als-muedigkeit/19586090 google translate...

If I remember properly the person in the video just read out the proposal? I think the most official explanation were these 2 Tweets: https://twitter.com/BPSOfficial/status/1437716385531105284 Edited: About the campaign: https://www.bps.org.uk/senate

The study had no control group but the values for each parameter were compared to norm values used for laboratory diagnosis.

Lutz L, Rohrhofer J, Zehetmayer S, Stingl M, Untersmayr E. Evaluation of Immune Dysregulation in an Austrian Patient Cohort Suffering from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Biomolecules. 2021; 11(9):1359. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11091359 free full text...

https://twitter.com/AndrewMoorepain/status/1437699525146206209

Carley ME, Chaparro LE, Choinière M, Kehlet H, Moore RA, Van Den Kerkhof E, Gilron I., Pharmacotherapy for the Prevention of Chronic Pain after Surgery in Adults: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Anesthesiology. 2021 Aug 1;135(2):304-325. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000003837. PMID...

Only had a cursory look at this and it doesn't give a good impression about the Cochrane board members' mediation skills. Anyway, I had wondered before whether Gøtzsche got expelled from Cochrane because he a bit too enthusiastically praciticized their credo about having to fight against...

Or what about a sentence along these lines: As soon as they are fit to leave hospital, it is mandatory to consult with the patient whether they require access to supported discharge to enable them to get home, followed by offering community reintegration programmes once able to engage and if...

Have not read the paper, but in the summary people not admitted to hospital are cursorily mentioned: Community re-integration and rehabilitation (p. 3) As soon as they are fit to leave hospital, patients require access to supported discharge to enable them to get home, followed by community...

(The original article dates back to April 2020 -- not sure if this deserves an own thread, but thought title and authors could be interesting.) Continued from above: The rehabilitation pathway and coordinated networks Given the diversity of presentation and rehabilitation needs, different...

Phillips M, Turner-Stokes L, Wade D, et al. Rehabilitation in the wake of COVID-19-A phoenix from the ashes. Br Soc Rehabil Med [Updated 2020 Apr 27; cited 2020 Dec 27]. Available from: https://www.bsrm.org.uk/downloads/covid-19bsrmissue1-published-27-4-2020.pdf...

Just had a look on how the corrections are taken into account on PubMed. This is the paper on PubMed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5865512/ And this is how it's listed in the PubMed "cited by" section e.g. of the PACE trial...

"His research includes gut neurophysiology and the study of the aetiology and management of functional gastrointestinal disorders of the upper and lower gut. He was appointed as editor-in-chief of Clinical Medicine and Commentary, having served a similar role for 8 years at Frontline...

Unless they think motor fatigue belongs to the same type of disorder ... -- but maybe they do?