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They're actually using the fact that they don't know a damn thing and made this all up to argue that they should be doing more of that. Which they recognize plainly in the abstract, but it has never stopped them from making very specific claims for decades, none of which have any actual...

Technically we got, what, one actual update? Before the 'hiatus', when we heard a few things about people who got nominated, but then we never heard anything about them other than trying to add another member. Everything else was just using more words than necessary to say things could happen in...

I don't know how much weight this would have on most people, but one of the things this has revealed is that there is in fact no such requirement. Being required to do something, then facing zero consequences for failing to do it, by definition means that it is not, in fact, required. Unless...

A historical record of the complete intransigence they show even when backed up in an argumentative corner. We know it won't matter soon, but later on when this becomes litigated, and it will, it will show the massive failure of those institutions and how all of this was a completely fabricated...

As much as we want medicine to be guided by science and evidence, and it should be, we still live in a world in which facts aren't quite true until authorities acknowledge them and the professionals under their rule not only accept them but use them as is in their decision process. At least...

Not sure this is a journalist, anyway this is based on her own certainty that this is why she recovered. More like one of the enthusiasts who got better naturally and decided that they held the answer. I saw her promoting this on Xitter some days ago and tagging basically the legion of...

A common description of severe states is that it feels like the entire nervous system is on fire, and that the whole body is poisoned, leading to a kind of shock paralysis. I have experienced this state once, and that was enough to have it seared into my memory, and it is apt. This looks far...

Which is really the main problem in every illness that medicine doesn't understand: what to do while we have this lack of knowledge about how to tell illnesses apart based on observed pathophysiology? Of course when it comes to treatments, drugs and such, this is critical, but we don't have that...

That analogy works, but backwards. We keep touching the stove. Again and again and again, no matter how many times we get burned. Even through increasingly severe burns that take longer to heal, we look longingly at the stove for the next time we get to touch it. Many times we touch the stove...

Or maybe it's the perfect title, if you apply it to the content of the book. Sometimes things like that align perfectly if you view them from just the right angle. Also, just perfect for a Mitch Edberg classic: "I haven't been entirely honest with you, I'm still not, but I haven't been...

Considering that the whole CBT/GET paradigm is considered "evidence-based", and so is the Lightning Process and similar quackery in a very rough sense, I think it's better to adopt a different term. I get that evidence-based is the paradigmatic buzzword, but it literally means nothing when...

"Lying down" demonstration in front of the German Ministry of Research today: Edit: another photo, good turnout.

Someone really has to look into why they have such abysmal response rates and change this. Having barely a quarter of data is close to useless as the void of data will always be used to minimize and offer alternative explanations, arguing the classic "don't come back to the clinic" = recovered...

ME/CFS is generally diagnosed after a delayed period, for mostly historical reasons. Traditionally it's been 6 months, far too long. 3 months looks more reasonable, looking at where the recovery curves are, the point at which recovery becomes the exception. LC has provided the best data we have...

Very damaging disinformation, from someone who spread so much disinformation that she once said on TV she'd stop making predictions. But without consequences for it, it's too easy to get right back to it, news media are always seeking out minimizers and it's always easiest to go with regulars...

Given that exercise has similar effects, and that in about 99% of cases stress can be substituted for exertion, isn't this just the normal effect of literally any exertion above base metabolism? Because it just creates completely unnecessary confusion to use the common terminology of stress in...

This is impressively delusional. Very biopsychosocial. The primary health care costs of obesity are significant, though I'm sure overstated, but the total costs are probably more similar to smoking, where the reduction in end-of-life care and, especially, longer retirement makes smokers a net...

That would be far more convincing if there were such a thing. It's not as if PACE featured that, at least outside of a definition that is "trained according to Wessely's beliefs", which is an ideological position. Chiropractors are highly trained in the sense of years of schooling and have good...

Historically, institutions locked in a state of systemic failure don't get changed, they get replaced or sidestepped. The enormous size of the wellness and alternative medicine industry is the sidestepping. It's useless sidestepping but it's the only way people can 'vote' with their money, as...

Aside from the clownery of having significant digits on such a probability (why not 5 significant digits? why not 10 while you're at it? it's not as if this number is anywhere close to be accurate or relevant), the idea that it doesn't matter what the direction of causality is, that you can...