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I was thinking of that the other day, how there is an obvious evolutionary advantage to babies feeling pain way more intensely than older children and adults. Because their body is so fragile, especially until the skull sets in but even long after, it's obvious that in the whole animal world...

Obviously deliberate.

The lesson of The boy who cried wolf is that the villagers stopped listening to the boy and everyone got hurt for it, so the lesson is: don't lie. Sad that medicine can't even rise up to the standard of fables meant to teach kids about not lying, or shunning liars. Too much to ask, I guess.

Possibly. But we know it's always interpreted one way and one way only, so those things need to be presented very carefully, with the knowledge that any ambiguity will be abused. If Staines is an author this is probably more of an oversight, but it's really important that ME researchers get...

Oh, definitely. It's more subtle and less woo but the end result is the same: GTFO.

Those are the same people who genuinely see nothing wrong with telling people to lift themselves by their own bootstraps, uh? Is it, what, impossible for them to understand that those are consequences of the disease and that they are literally arguing that the consequences are the cause...

No other profession can get away with failing this hard and never having to face any consequences for it. Just completely unable to look reality for what it is, amazing. Everything has to be turned around to fit their framing and preferences. This is genuinely as absurd as someone pushing for an...

Almost makes you nostalgic for the old snake oil peddlers, they don't seem so bad in hindsight. Yeah, yeah, salt but still, come on have some damn common sense here about what it means to represent the medical profession and say stuff like that.

Crawley's lying again about the PACE trial. If only there were such things as people whose job it is to verify facts and press people for evidence of their claims. Maybe kept in some journaling form, some sort of... journalist. No, that's preposterous, no one could possibly do that: check basic...

Oh, they knew all along, and admitted it freely among friendly audiences. These charlatans have openly been attributing to themselves the mere passage of time. They knew it and did it anyway. And as other studies, and LC has emphasized, "some people" is actually most people. Essentially...

All over the place with nothing to conclude out of it, so a typical Chalder/Chew-Graham study. Using negative tests as controls is obviously absurd at this point (and any point frankly). Who keeps wasting money on this and how does no one care that this money is just burned without anything to...

A swing... and 2/3 misses Literally 2 of the biggest deniers (regardless of Greenhalgh's early work, she has since checked out of the issue upon seeing it's mostly something she can't accept exists).

On second thought, let's also throw in the kitchen sink. No, wait, many, many kitchen sinks. Yes, that should work. The quality of research in clinical psychology is seriously going down, it's getting even less rigorous than famous failed experiments like the Stanford prison and Milgram's. And...

Way too new and unproven. I only take medical advice in scroll form. Though it's a bit odd that he keeps trotting out stuff from decades ago when there is supposed to be this huge body of evidence since then. How odd.

Technically this is true since all they do in this field is develop new "treatments". Always derived from existing ones but still. At issue is that "emerging" and "correct" and "effective" are vastly different concepts. Phrenology was emerging once, so was the absurd idea that mood massively...

That would explain it literally be classified as a neurological disease with primarily neurological symptoms. Not gonna lie, this is borderline a "you mean the files are IN the computer?" moment. Do words mean anything at all in this profession? Or are they all fungible and mean whatever is...

I'm not sure how this process was supposed to play out. Why would people complain to the MEA about one physician in particular? Especially when so many are nasty and higher profile. Problem is he clearly has no idea what ME is and that's disqualifying on its own. What a dumb own goal.

Person holding an uncapped highlighter: "this has been highlighted". Sure it has, buddy. Uh... Proofreading is hard, I guess.