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The psychogenic theorists seem to lack the intelligence to understand that the constant publications of articles that are biased towards finding negative psychological or behavioural traits in certain patient groups causes profound harm. The combined effect of thousands of papers like this being...

Research that is about correlations between responses to questionnaires and the like seems to usually be of very low value. Go do some real research.

It's plausible that there is a genuine correlation of this kind (eg. being unable to function also means having fewer and worse opportunities to develop one's intelligence, or certain illnesses like POTS could cause brain fog which could affect performance in intelligence tests that were...

Personally I think belief in psychogenic causation of illness is a sign of low intelligence. One need only read the stuff these people publish. It's full of flawed reasoning, contradictions and errors. You've got to be pretty dumb to believe in this stuff, or else you would notice all these...

Basically I suspect that coronavirus is causing a lot of nonsevere symptoms in a lot more people than is currently believed because the existing diagnostic tests are inadequate. This suspicion is based in part on what people in my area are telling me about their health, and the example of...

Ed Yong really gets it.

I spoke to a person from outside my family circle about coronavirus and she mentioned suffering from fatigue after buying groceries, and having different symptoms appear randomly on different days. She did not have a known coronavirus infection but it sounded a lot like a very mild form of the...

Coronavirus isolated from covid toes https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/spanish-researchers-isolate-coronavirus-in-covid-toes/1890247#

I suspect inulin supplementation was the main cause of the worst flare in GI symptoms that I've ever had.

Yes, a first step to expose how unreasonable the psychogenic theories are. It's a battle we shouldn't avoid in my opinion.

This new one has English subtitles from what I understood.

I would like to know how a GWAS can assist in separating the multiple diseases which are by many thought to be grouped under the ME/CFS label. When GWAS results are dicussed, what is usually shown is a Manhattan plot. When that plot shows many different gene associations, the usual...

One wonders whether Boris Johnson's covid 19 had anything to do with Jeremy Hunt taking this more seriously.

Interesting because I have at times doubted the ME/CFS diagnosis because the turning point appeared to be only a trivial flu-like illness that didn't even cause fever. Something that wouldn't be attributed any real significance if infections weren't known to be connected to ME/CFS.

Because they turned depression and anxiety into catch-all diagnoses, to be given whenever the first round of standard testing doesn't reveal the problem. If there's any fatigue, it's depression. If there is any autonomic arousal (maybe there is a better term), it's anxiety.

The ‘cognitive behavioural model’ of chronic fatigue syndrome: Critique of a flawed model https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2055102919838907

The idea was born in 1989 in a paper by Wessely and Chalder (before any studies had been done). They just made it up on the spot. Afterwards they acted as if it had been confirmed but as far as I'm concerned it has never been shown that this explanation is accurate for any patients.

He isn't technically wrong. We don't know if they are the same or not. That doesn't mean it's not sensible to treat what looks like ME/CFS as such. Not that there's much in the way of treatment, but at least treating it as ME/CFS means knowing there's no guarantee people will ever recover and...

It would be reassuring to know that he is working on PACE. The Lancet has to retract or correct eventually.

Renewed pressure on The Lancet to correct or retract. PACE plays a large role in the problems The Times describes in its articles. Without the misleading claims of recovery and the exaggerated claims of improvement, parents of children declining GET would not be seen as guilty of child abuse...