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My favorite thing about papers like this is that according to the caricature invented for the biopsychosocial model, we should be all over this. "It drains the lymphatic system!" sounds medical and technical and biological and stuff. We should be gushing over this, or whatever. It validates the...

post copied to the WHO news thread COVID-19 technical lead at the WHO. Has mentioned LC a few times before. I am not aware that the WHO has actually done anything beyond thoughts and prayers. Maybe they can't, it's not clear. On this it seems more like the UN, club members can choose to listen...

Post copied from the Long Covid in the media and social media thread COVID-19 technical lead at the WHO. Has mentioned LC a few times before. I am not aware that the WHO has actually done anything beyond thoughts and prayers. Maybe they can't, it's not clear. On this it seems more like the UN...

I don't know, feels like a discredited scientist should not continue to have unearned promotions and titles. But that's just me, weird person who thinks pseudoscience is bad and charlatans should not be rewarded just because the pseudoscience he still promotes is popular. I will gladly hold an...

All only possible because of the mental health exclusion. You know, since they can't tell if you're faking mental illness. Or what mental illness even is, or how to define it other than its more superficial outward behavioral features. And have gotten this algorithm wrong literally millions of...

WTH did I just read? This is genuinely QAnon level of holy crap.

But psychiatry has totally moved on from Freud, uh? Totally.

Literally the #2 complaint I see in long haulers on the issue of psychologizing LC, right after all the gaslighting and harmful psychologizing, is how they cannot get any help for mental health exactly because of all the gaslighting and decades of failure psychologizing chronic illness. They...

2 posts moved from the long covid in the media and social media thread. Not that the NIH is an arbiter of this, but they are likely using a conservative estimate so this gives a pretty hard floor.

Can't read most of it but it's pretty self-explanatory: It's seriously unhinged for medicine to actually be comparable to flat Earthers at time, incapable of learning from experience. Completely absurd level of failure.

Yes, people who believe in a thing, accept that thing. Homeopaths commonly accept that homeopathy 'works', to a greater or less extent. This is basically the definition of something being fashionable. Because everything is projection in this ideology, so is the idea of fashionable diagnoses...

Simon Wessely appointed interim executive dean at KCL. Notice that the announcement doesn't contain a single mention of the work he was awarded and knighted for, not a single mention of the things he is most famous for. That's how you know those are real accomplishments to be proud of, when you...

I saw a similar comment from a physician saying something similar but about exercise and lifestyle, that 90%+ of diseases could be avoided if people weren't just stupid. It's the underlying thought process, the magical thinking, that is the problem, however it gets justified is irrelevant, it's...

No one needs more oversight than people who assure you they don't need oversight. Especially people who have made it clear they have always needed all the oversight and for whom lack of oversight has caused them to fail completely at this very issue, which they insist they need no oversight for...

The class action lawsuits were already guaranteed to be huge. They will be so much huger, just straight up gigantic. Just straight up seize all the budgets for psychosomatic medicine for the next century and use it to repair the catastrophic harm they caused, and fire everyone involved, not a...

Posts moved from the Long Covid in the media and social media thread (I think this is a GET study, from what comments suggest) Edit: from the horse's mouth

Getting real hard for medical authorities to criticise Chinese Traditional Medicine at this point, or even any cultural medicine. Or any alternative medicine. Or just about any pseudoscience. The entire basis for what makes alternative medicine problematic is making baseless claims. Baseless...

That's a key missing piece that's almost never discussed. It's emblematic of failure, to simply not have any process, or even interest, in trying to figure out why things failed and how to improve on them. This simply does not exist, the idea is to move on, never hold anyone accountable...

And, frankly, is the main reason sports are impressive. Seeing machines built specifically to accomplish a task? Boring. They literally can't do it differently, unless broken. Human performance is so difficult to achieve, that's what makes it all worth watching. It's so hard to not only attain...

Says it's only an abstract for now so paper should come out later. The idea that not finding evidence of infection in the blood positively means no virus is present is frankly bizarre, especially given common knowledge that many pathogens are latent in almost all humans, even more so that many...