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Everyone forgets the second half after "a few bad apples". It's usually used incorrectly to mean that it's OK because it was only a few, when the whole point of the saying is that it only takes a few to corrupt the whole thing. The whole batch has been spoiled. Hell, the whole orchard is.

The first words of the abstract really don't make it any better.

Hey, let's not sell the chickens before they hatch. None of the prior eggs have hatched, it's kind of a trend. Looking forward for the very first but this whole celebrating before anything's been done is an especially annoying trope because nothing ever gets done in large part because of that...

Yes, sick people, famous for having lots of sex. Could have been informative if they had asked about sexual habits and whether they are affected by their being ill. But that would have been informative and would not have allowed to opine about how sick people with a broken sexual life have less...

Wow. So if you ask sick people about their health, they will report poor health. And if you ask healthy people about their health, they don't. And of course it's the core assumption that does all the work: they assume no actual ill health in the sick people. So basically studying their own...

That's not an update, at best it's a rephrasing that says the same things but pretends it checks the boxes it needs to check. And the SMC is not a credible scientific authority, it's a PR organization. Sure, they deal with science journalism, they do not themselves do science and are therefore...

It's really not getting any better, uh? The focus on "distressing" is seriously bizarre, it's like none of these people have ever had a sick day in their life and simply can't process the concept and what it means. Of course the choice to limit this to fatigue is basically the tell that it's a...

When you don't know that "chronic fatigue" is actually serious and shouldn't ever have been dismissed. Alternatively it could be dismissed again so the cycle repeats again and again... Hard to think of a charitable interpretation of that quote. And if this is an official reason... ready the...

The "therapies" appear to be a mish-mash of many different things with no other relation than being delivered using VR. What should it matter how a bunch of disparate stuff is delivered if they're all different? It's nonsense to say that VR therapy is a therapy anymore than it differs doing it...

Uh, citation? Wat? This thing where medicine treats symptoms in isolation, detached from their context, has become a tragic farce blocking most of the progress that could have been done already. Complete nonsense. Context matters, damnit.

All of which will be familiar...

Totally consistent. It's the latest craze and also no one's buying it. How does it make it sense for something to be effective yet people stop using it? It doesn't. At all. It's essentially an appeal to authority: authorities are using it, therefore it must be good, otherwise they wouldn't be...

Underselling it. It's amazing. Thank you, Caroline! Love to use Garner's words trashing Cochrane against him. Not so much as a gotcha but to get Cochrane to at least acknowledge his unprofessional behavior and how it reflects poorly on them.

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It appears that the lead researcher on one of the $470M NIH initiative is a psychiatrist, which I guess means they have little intention of actually solving this. The NIH does seem willing to waste a billion dollars. Mount Sinai Named a Lead Site for Enrollment in Nationwide Study on the...

The most amazing thing here is that the public health messaging from the start, and still is, has been that Covid is mostly harmless to those below 60, in part because of this belief system. So much emphasis on mild illness, in addition to asymptomatic cases being rather common. As a result, the...

Uh, hmmm, yeah... Yes, it rained, yes, there is water on the ground, but who knows if the 2 are connected? Could be astral projection, I guess? Maybe spontaneous liquefication. Who knows? Could even be ghosts! You hear hoofs? Think howling monkeys, of course. This thing where not having the...

They really need to talk with patients. Not to. With. This is awful. Complete caricature of what it's like to be ill. Diagnoses are "validating" because they are the ticket to everything happening in health care. It's not an abstract, it's a requirement without which nothing happens. That...