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Same with CODES. Saw it a few times recently, generalizing CBT to FND. Without rationale or justification either, and of course ignoring the null result. Because what's a null result if not a frowny face downside up?

Uh, never noticed that. But those are just passing mentions hinting at a question that is not specified. And another one of the mentions calls it post-exertional fatigue, which White usually does. They have clearly no idea what it means, but I'm sure they can argue otherwise for more than a minute.

That's something I noticed that is actually one of the biggest red flags. Typically, scientists argue. A lot. And disagree with each other. A LOT. It can get bitter, arguments on substance and the like. And the disagreements are substantial, they aren't merely preferences or points of view. In...

You're right, this isn't good old D-K, it's a special case of Mass Dunning-Kruger. Which ironically manifests through socially spread beliefs about illness. So Mass Projected Dunning-Kruger?

I'm getting a sense that inflammation is being used generically to mean something the immune system is doing simply because there is no better word for it.

It's really getting hard to avoid the conclusion that a disease that resolves itself naturally in most cases is basically medicine's worst-case scenario, it completely cripples every process and method normally used. It's just too easy to attribute to themselves this natural recovery, not only...

Followed by the usual: "no difference in outcome between treatment arms but in-group benefits in secondary measures of blah-blah-blah". I have no idea how such laughable nonsense came to be standard but the fact that hardly anyone sees any problems with it is very much the underlying problem we...

Good old Dunning-Kruger. Edit: correction, it's a special case of Mass Dunning-Kruger, not the good old singular type.

That's odd, not a single GET trial even had any mention or consideration of PEM, they literally don't believe in it. Should be done in a split second. I guess this is where semantics get discussed whether "boom-and-bust" is just code for PEM, which it obviously isn't, and neither is...

The fact that it has been a default explanation for several decades affecting tens of millions really puts a dent in that claim. It's true that it's absurd that no one really takes it seriously despite this. Which must be very confusing for people who believe in it. It's in widespread use as...

If I remember correctly, the IOM report happened because of the HHS advisory committee that was disbanded somewhere around, what, 2018?, for having served its purpose (of not doing anything, I guess). So without that advisory committee, there is probably no mechanism to make people do their job...

Basing from the tone of discussion of not just Gerada but others, the objective seems to be that patient complaints are awful and unnecessary and basically need to stop happening entirely. There's something weird about many comments saying the GMC does not support physician during complaints...

There are many long haulers who had a period of, I guess remission would be more accurate, between the initial acute illness and the PVFS type symptoms, but some were ill the whole time with no respite so there is really no basis to say that they recovered from the acute illness, unless we...

Oh, FFS. :facepalm: And of course like the vast majority of complaints it was dismissed, so that's basically textbook excessive worry over an unlikely event that carries little if any real consequences, because like everything it's all projection. I have no idea what is the purpose of this...

This is just bizarre, the whole concept exists mainly in psychiatry and would have been forgotten along with phrenology as a weird artifact of the past without psychiatry holding an obsession that has lasted for well over 150 years. And "largely ignored"? I mean there are only so many things...

I don't understand why such statements make it through peer review on a scientific paper. In an editorial? Whatever, sure. This is wishful thinking without basis, in fact it has been thoroughly debunked, affirming that a specific outcome must be true for no reason whatsoever. There is not a...

If there's anything to debate here it's this. How can anyone have any confidence in medicine when some of the leading medical authorities are clearly delusional and promoting blatant pseudoscience? How can they be trusted to make decisions when they show impaired judgment? None of this is...

This is your brain when you think people are "doing" a disease, it can make you think smoking is just the same thing as being ill. Obviously the correct answer is the latter either way since we know that motivation is not enough, but the profound disrespect mixed in with the hubris and arrogance...