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Moved post Looks like a big paper that will deserve its own thread but useful Twitter summary. Published in Nature so expected to be pretty big and evaluates a roughly 7% prevalence of Long Covid. Likely a conservative underestimate, as it always is, so the floor, but not sure at which time...

Not explicitly related but also not quite unrelated...

So far this is by far the LC study that has gotten the most interest with physicians, as best as I can see. The asymmetry of bullshit works just as well in medicine, it turns out. You can tell how many are thirsty for this. It's easy to see how some people latch onto this opportunity, it's so...

I have no idea why medical unions are blamed here for something that 100% of institutions are failing at. I mean, sure, technically medical unions have a unique responsibility here but it's not to their members but are the duties of the profession, which they are 100% failing at and don't seem...

Yeah an article a few days ago. Not just that, but many other people were related to people with ME or generally involved in the issue but are not BPS ideologues, because apparently even that should disqualify. Not a caste system or anything like that, though. It's just the mere thought of...

It turns out that imaginary savings are very lousy compared to very real losses. The fiscal consequences of this for governments are massive, and they are completely oblivious to it because they are badly advised by their medical advisers that this is not a real issue. And of course the typical...

Dafuq? What hubris to publish this when not only the Lancet but Horton himself fought to deny us this, none of which is happening thanks to those very efforts. It's only because of LC that we are seeing some changes, none of which would have happened without it. Seriously in medicine truth...

Things that relate to events and lead to stuff, basically. It's more airy than atmospheric science. It's so damn generic I don't understand how anyone takes this crap seriously, it reminds me of every MLM sales pitch out there.

It's far worse than that. It assumes that: Everyone who is infected will get tested, even those not showing any symptoms (false) Everyone who wants a test will get it (false) All tests are 100% reliable at any time (also false) It's basically compounding fractions and reporting that it still...

The inability to grasp the most basic things about this are infuriating. It's as if learning from experience is impossible without a theoretical understanding, zero attention to the details that actually matter. The conclusions are as weak as the effort that went into this.

Missed at first but one of the authors is Brigitte Ranque, who as best as I can tell is pretty much French Trudie Chalder. She also appears to be advising the French government along with some of her like-minded colleagues. One of the things that isn't spoken out loud is that driving...

On this paper, I am very curious about whether Greenhalgh shared it because she thought it was great. Because this is the exact formula used to dismiss ME the exact same way with the exact same intent and purpose and she thinks it's great and fully agrees with. Not that I expect consistency...

Association of Self-reported COVID-19 Infection and SARS-CoV-2 Serology Test Results With Persistent Physical Symptoms Among French Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2785832 Question Are the belief in having had COVID-19...

Not sure of the date, in Marseilles this time. ~60 showed up.

Probably the most important point is that it's the complete opposite of what the same people have been pushing for years so they are effectively promoting one thing and its exact opposite for the same issue. I'm not entirely sure this will be convincing to people who think ME is BS but to...

The least relevant comment is from an NIH researcher, and somehow this is a perfect metaphor for everything. But overall a good article. As for the lucrative snake oil market: it only exists because medicine is especially fond of a special type of snake oil and can't let go of it. Doesn't help...

Wow! Impressive. Amazing effort.

That's because for decades millions of people with IBS have been labeled with anxiety and depression. This is the literal basis for the belief that anxiety can cause those symptoms. They are simply unnecessary labels that made medicine waste decades on nonsense. Given that GI health is so...

Given that this hypothesis is literally the "theoretical" basis for the construct of CSS, this is basically the equivalent of pulling yourself by your own bootstraps. It's quite amazing that something can both be a hypothesis worth testing but also the very basis for the construct itself. And...