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Could inflammation of the ganglia cause the parasthesia which were part of Ramsay's criteria?

There looks to be a problem with their suggested prevalence rate. It looks to me to be at least ten times too high. If that is what they believe the condition to be they will include all sorts of symptoms and belief states. And we know exactly why so many depressive and psychiatric symptoms are...

Given that an S.I.W. is a clear indication of a desire to leave the battlefield, perhaps that is what members of Forward-ME have done. Although shooting oneself in the foot is the common metaphor, unexplained injuries to the right hand could also be an indication.

That makes it sound as though the reviewers ought to be on the list of authors. It makes one wonder who might have been reviewer for early papers by Wessely and White. The role might have been attractive to someone with a media image to protect.

How could any reasonable clinician or researcher think this method could possibly elicit information about the needs of those most in need? We know who will not be attending. One wonders what the screening process will be like to eliminate people with chronic fatigue.

I am not suggesting that it necessarily involves deliberate fraud. I just believe that people often did not do what they thought they did or what they intended to do. That's what it is to be human.

One must probably start with the assumption that those currently responding are stating accurately what the accounts appear to show. Can afurther FOI be made requesting further and better particulars of the £1.6 million payment, specifically the dates and method of payment. It has to be...

Is that information available separately to what was said to have been done and found?

Who is it again that is ill with the dissociative disorder?

One can test the seriousness of this project. Has there been agreement between the international members as to the likely costs budget needed, and the division of those costs between members? If not, is Afme picking up the bill in return for the use of the names of the others? How often would...

If we hear more of him, how long do we expect it to be before the name undergoes a reversal?

What do we presume the procedure would be? BBC contacts SMC. Does SMC then contact the duty psychiatrist and ask for a stock a see, or do they have the stock response on file? So who wrote this? Which of them cannot distinguish between infer and imply? Do they then go to the trouble of...

Investigative reporting at its best. ....evidence that these treatments are safe and useful for some patients. I suspect that the average twelve year old could spot the potential follow up questions.

I presumed that the "living dead" suggestion wad an Aussie wind-up. Apparently not. Does no-one remember the sketch-perhaps it was "I'm sorry I'll read that again", which ended "and he joined the ranks of the living dead....yes,he became a Chartered Accountant." Apologies to chartered...

It is worth mentioning that although the language here is of "linked organisations" the Welcome page of the Forward MEwebsite talks of membership. It also says that members are free to opt into activities. That is not much of a freedom unless they are informed what the activities are. If...

We must all have been ill that day.

I once came across a comment which may have general application. The comment was to the effect that the only people with the skills to understand and interpret answers to questionnaires have no need of them. Edit. Questionnaires, that is, not skills.

I realise that this was not the object of the post but what immediately struck me was how readily reference to the heart can be seen to be metaphorical. In contrast the concept of mind is rarely seen in the dame way, despite the explanations of Gilbert Ryle.

It is revealing when one discovers the history of those whose judgment one trusts on the subject of ME. Strange that they all turn out to be people the "experts" would have us believe cannot be relied on.

Is online treatment what "kids" receive when they've been hung out to dry?