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It's really hard to be this wrong. I mean look at this. This is a truly impressive amount of being wrong, in all the wrong ways, too. There is not a single bit of positive evidence for this phenomenon, it's based entirely on absence of evidence, and yet this dude says, maybe even thinks, that...

It's pretty much a biopsychosocial classic at this point. So many papers from the usual gang and others talk about it that it has to be some sort of exercise they go through to justify themselves. It's hard to believe that anyone can be this clueless, but there have been a few recent papers...

The "techniques": https://www.thesperoclinic.com/services/treatment-modalities/

Disturbing report about a very expensive treatment for LC. There aren't many details but it looks like a $100K bunch of woo. I'm sure there are more examples like this. Families uprooting themselves and spending absurd amounts for a treatment. Imagine if all this energy were channeled in an...

Ultimately, research is a brute force thing. No one knows what the real answer is, so it's like exploring a new territory without knowing anything about it. The only way to go about it is to spread out, go everywhere and branch out. Basically like how slime mold and bacteria solve the food...

Actual, genuine mass hysteria. Because it's always projection when it comes to, well, mass hysteria / social contagion. With the last few years pulling apart bad research from the people who would declare medical mass hysteria, I have zero doubt that there is no such thing. Certainly not as...

Wow does that make the "updated" guideline a bit awkward, but it's not like this is anything new. The same story of systemic failure repeating itself because of, well, systemic failure.

Yup. Fitting that in a field rife with overlapping questions and an out-of-control epidemic of acronyms, we also have overlapping acronyms. Edit: I like this joke a lot and thought it would land better, ah well

I'm surprised that there is actually some rule about this and that people pretend like it's being enforced. It's definitely not being enforced. Anywhere. It's actually a pretty sick joke to pretend. But it would be a great idea. IMO it's necessary as a minimum for health care to be viable...

Seems deserved but I can't see how this is any different from standard recommendations for CBT, GET, LP and other woo, where the pressure is built-in. SCAM is now accepted standard health care. I guess the difference is that cancer is taken seriously, but that shouldn't even matter. It's all so...

This could be turned into a good parody, similar to Mitchell & Webb's Homeopathic A&E. Just switch the homeopathy to therapeutic recreation and you basically don't have to change anything. Got cancer? Oh we can sign you for our pottery class. Broken leg? We got a great ski course for you. Brain...

I got curious about what they even mean by "illness coherence" and a quick Google suggests this is mostly a made-up concept from the functional school of neurology, not many hits, but they define it as: Which is a pretty obvious and expected. The experts don't understand any of it either, it's...

Makes sense considering that almost no good research is done using CFS, so it would be mostly biopsychosocial research and still the best that can be said is that it could be somewhat valid. And since most of this research is old, being "increasingly seen as the most accurate and constructive"...

There's no such thing as being unbiased in this setting. All health care professionals are biased, have many biases. Some of those biases are good, in fact many are extremely important. Bias isn't inherently bad, what matters is that they are accounted for and are positive. In fact there should...

Aside from Carolyn Chew-Graham, this is a pretty solid organization that could do a lot of good.

Aside from FND not being a cause, it's literally the label used when they don't know what causes illness, this study is totally useless. Sick people seek health care resources, which are thoroughly lacking and inadequate, and this leads to higher costs, but obviously, no, you can't just wing it...

Ugh. I can't avoid reacting to this thinking that it would be great if people stopped trying to improve people's mental health, because so far the whole thing, all of it, has been a complete and total disaster. Improving people's health is a good thing, when done right, but mental well-being is...

During a US senate budget hearing on May 23, Monica Bertagnolli, NIH director, said:

In hindsight, quality control for the main source of knowledge our civilization depends on being done as a voluntary process involving a few overworked peers who all share the same perverse incentives may not have been the best idea. In foresight it was pretty obvious, but in hindsight it's...

We're definitely going to see a "it's not inflammation, there is no evidence of inflammation, viruses can't do that, this isn't immunological it's psychological" to "we've always known it was inflammation, anxiety and depression can cause inflammation, so can viruses but once they're gone it's...