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Which may explain the shock of researchers in the field and the ridiculous level of media coverage they are pushing. This bias is everything, without it there is nothing. Not surprisingly, as this is exactly what they think is the problem and therefore seek to influence, they just know they...

The sheer amount of press this failed study is getting is seriously absurd. Especially ridiculous given there have literally been hundreds of such experiments already done. It's cult-like obsession. Though it's good to hear the right side in this debate, as long as this remains a debatable...

He probably means breathing exercises, for which the evidence also looks weak but it's big business so it must business on. It's a big problem to use such a generic term, it can be used to apply to anything from light stretching all the way to military drill school. Zero nuance or specificity in...

Would she say the same of alternative medicine? Because the same can be said. The only difference is belief in the magical powers of the mind, that something must work. The only reason people hold on to that belief is that although every experiment has failed to meet any primary objective, there...

That's exactly the kind of attitude that keeps them oblivious to it. Just like the bystander phone effect, everyone is out there saying "someone should do something" and they go right back to doing nothing, or sometimes angrily defend a broken status quo that lead us there, or just hustle at the...

EBM folk everywhere: hold my beer and excuses.

Honestly at this point just go straight with Amazon's "wellness booths" and be done with it. This is completely beyond parody, it just cheapens everything to a damn tchotchke.

How about science illiteracy? People are frankly too generous here, this is a long-standing problem that has always plagued research of all types. This is just one of the last remaining space where science illiteracy is encouraged and promoted but it's the same: researchers who want to prove...

GET was always sold as being individualized. Not true but they've been saying this for decades. But it's not as if any of this matters, they can say something for decades, pretend otherwise and nobody cares. Which is why they can lie and fail for decades. Of all the failures, the simple...

Just one example but I'm seeing a lot of agreement from long haulers that post-exertional symptom exacerbation is a preferable term. Even in those who are not quite aware of the context and history of PEM. So, easy to argue this is an acknowledged improvement. Now if only they could understand...

That's like asking Uri Geller to use spoons he didn't bring himself. Not gonna happen, they know the illusion doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.

A good exercise for this would be to submit a BPS-ME/MUS paper with the fewest changes possible, swapping everything related to whatever behavioral crap they are doing with healing crystals. It would likely not be accepted and no doubt the methodological aspects would be admonished, but only...

I would assume Leonard Jason's study could answer that question? Rare opportunity to benefit from a prospective study here.

Also wow is this article being pushed. Already re-tweeted about a handful of times by BMJ by my count, again in the last hour. They are really doing a campaign here.

Seems likely there is a Wessely connection. Gerada is completely obsessed with patient complaints, believes patients should not even have the right to lodge complaints (because it makes physicians feel bad) and yet again a few days ago in a discussion over physician suicides blamed patient...

Informative graphic. Those numbers... Although this is for one symptom only so most are not significantly impaired. But it sure would be useful to know more about how symptoms occur, maybe learn something about them for once. The gender ratio is closer to 60:40, not that big.

It's sad that it's lost on everyone, and I'm mostly talking about professionals here, Gez isn't and is free to believe weird stuff if he wants, that this is literally the way people have always attributed weird magical powers to objects or rituals, that they just happened to correlate with the...

Fitting that with medicine having politicized this disease category into oblivion, that political leadership bypassing medicine will likely be the way out. Wherever it comes from, this is a problem that requires leadership and with medicine paralyzed by past failures, this is the only way it...

"New" It just never ends, does it? Why do people think superficial understanding of an issue and giving it a few minutes' attention is good enough to deliver something useful?

Absolutely ridiculous that the article still frames it as a result of "activism" from pwME. And even more ridiculous that those "researchers" are still pretending that this is legitimate research. Even more bizarre that their entire reasoning seems to be that they are just asking questions...