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Strangely in the paper immediately following that last one https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/2/5525/1300.full.pdf · PDF file Two School Epidemics McEvedy et al there appears to be no discussion of overbreathing as a causative factor. It seems to be all about personality factors. How...

It is interesting to reread the Moss and McEvedy paper on the Blackburn School alleged hysteria https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/2/5525/1295.full.pdf What became epidemic was a piece of behaviour consequent on an emotional state: excitement or, in the latter stages, frank fear led to...

I didn't know on which of the many threads to say this, but this is as good as any. It may, or may not, be worth pointing out that whatever it was that caused the Dalston outbreak of ME in 1955, which was considered similar in many respects to the Royal Free, it apparently affected the sense...

I disagree with that. Reference should be made to the alternative way in which the term might, in any particular instance, be intended. The word is ambiguous. The ambiguity should be explained.

That seems to be a highly misleading description. The dual use has been long recognised. It' hard to see how they can use that first "is" with a clear conscience.

Is the corollary of this that, if you were not admitted to hospital, you were never ill in the first place?

Who would have guessed thy set the bar so high? Is there almost 100% recovery from ME in Norway?

If one thinks through that court exchange one might come up with interesting hypothoses. Why would counsel have been cross-examining Beard in such terms? Presumably because he had provided an "expert opinion" for the defence. Who would "The Defence" be? Presumably an Insurance Company. One...

There was no need for research. ME was a spurious disease concept. The Americans told them so. And they had been persuaded by M and B. But they did give us Imdoden, Canter and Cluff in exchange. We are eternally grateful. At least it gave Edwards some support.

Is that as bad as it looks? It reminded me so forcefully of SW's paper on neurasthenia that I became distinctly phobic, and unable to continue reading.

This is what the "corresponding author" has to say of himself Clinically, my real interest lays in helping people with long-standing interpersonal problems with the CAT model. I suspect many have long standing problems with the CAT model. This, apparently, is it It is a cognitive therapy...

We have seen this so often, in people who should be expected to know better, that it almost seems as though there is a selection bias in favour of people who lack basic reading comprehension skills. Perhaps more worrying is that the errors are not picked up by peer reviewers, editors, or those...

Don't we need to be "cautious" before attributing too much credit to the BMJ? Is the full sequence of events clear? One can see that NICE could decide to be more "cautious" before "advising" people to potentially breach its own guidance.

CFS under what criteria?

At least if they remove the stigma it might prevent reproduction of the more florid excesses.

The difficulty is that words do not "really" mean anything. One has to judge the manner of use.

Ah, well, you see, if the patient disagrees with the doctor he/she can be diagnosed as suffering Abnormal Illness Behaviour though even Pilowski admitted that it helped if the doctor was right.

I think it would be wrong to believe that there is only one BPS school and that Jenkins and Mowbray are to be associated with those we familiarly refer as being under the BPS banner. EDIT It is not immediately apparent to what, in the quoted passage, exception might be taken. She quotes Acheson...

@rvallee I think you ought to tell us what you have against jackasses.

It might be of interest to quote Rachel Jenkins in her Introduction to Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome 1991 eds Jenkins and Mowbray quoting Acheson At the Royal Free Hospital, no patient with poliomyelitis had been admitted to the hospital prior to the outbreak, nor was the diagnosis entertained in...