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Yes, it is everybody else who is wrong. Not psychosomatic advocates.

Exactly. I would not be surprised if there is a whole cascade of stuff from whatever the primary pathology turns out to be.

Ah, the ol' hide the evidence by simply by not collecting it in the first place routine.

If this kind of coverage is on the likes of CNN, then it has gone mainstream.

The mass hysteria is the scare campaign that there is mass hysteria.

Looks to me like a straight advert for the clinic, and expanding the franchise.

I think these points need to be fact checked. Correct.

Yeah, I agree that it is actually a very misleading test for good fit. Unless your mask has a non-porous section around the bridge of the nose then air is going to come out of that region when you breath out and fog up your glasses. Basically any mask that meets or exceeds the N95/P2 standard...

Yes. Their arguments and claims just get more convoluted and ridiculous with every new marketing pamphlet paper. The FND craze is the real mass hysteria.

Good to see more in the profession standing up to Wessely and his ex cathedra pronouncements.

I too preferred SEID, but given it did not get broad support within the patient community, and in the absence of more accurate criteria (especially good biomarkers), then ME is as good a compromise as we can probably get for now.

I used to fix dialysis machines, often in patients' own homes, so I got to see and know patients and the pros and cons of dialysis. If your kidneys are bad enough to require dialysis, then you are already in serious trouble. Dialysis might keep you from being dead, but you are usually still...

I'd call it arrogance more than anything.

Leaving aside whatever the initial intentions of this approach were, it is clear that it has now degenerated into arse covering by any means. Indeed. Though that is a good one. It is one of the main problems we face. Most people with no knowledge of what has happened really do struggle to both...

Interesting.

This. The psychosocial club have always demanded the highest level of methodology from biomedical studies, while demanding that their psychosocial studies be exempted from having to meet that standard, and still be given the same weight and influence as the results from much more rigorous...

you will be deliberately infected with the COVID-19 virus Utterly appalling. Are they going to take full responsibility for any adverse consequences, including financial costs of lifelong disability, if it goes wrong? Or are they just going to blame the patient for not wanting to get better?

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PACE has essentially been debunked: the initial definition of ME/CFS used in the study was overly broad, endpoints were changed mid-stream and after data had been collected, objective measures of patient improvement (or lack thereof) were removed from the study. One of the objective measures –...

This alone is more than sufficient grounds to render any trial of it a complete non-starter. The methodology used must be fully transparent. End of discussion. The virulence and tenacity of the psychosomatic meme still shocks me. It is beyond bizarre.