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I've been trying to find a thread to post this on, it's UK-centric, but seems at least generally relevant to this, as you can easily tell this will be applied on ME and may leave many without any GP support. Haven't seen it and seems really significant to pwME in the UK.

My favorite thing from this paper is the reaction from some of the minimizers who use the word "might" as a gotcha, from the "might be caused by Covid". Literally the entire evidence base for psychosomatic medicine is lower than "might", and they don't object to that, which shows how...

I'm generally suspicious of systematic reviews reviewing systematic reviews since, you know, systematic reviews are unreliable. But this is a general trend that is being confirmed by multiple reviews, is in line with what the NICE committee found, as the psychosocial evidence base on ME is built...

Full title: Statistical power in clinical trials of interventions for mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders Authors: Ymkje Anna de Vries, Robert A Schoevers, Julian P T Higgins, Marcus R Munafò, Jojanneke A Bastiaansen Published: Psychological medicine, May 2022 Link...

Those are not the only two options. This seems to believe that the only way for impairment to be chronic is through obviously observable organ damage. I don't know where this obsession comes from but it's seriously impeding progress in medicine. Seems to be in the same line of thinking about...

I doubt those records would be useful. They are missing too much data and are too inaccurate. Military records, though, like used for the MS study, potentially very useful. Militaries care very much about combat readiness, they don't train troops then not care whether they are functional or...

What would rehabilitation do, then? It's basically used like a magical step, where whatever the problem is, "rehabilitation occurs". The reasoning is always deconditioning. Of course it was always BS but even after they find that it's not deconditioning, they still say it should be useful, even...

There's something deeply ironic that the day after the NIH publishes this waste of a study, the CDC publishes a warning that 1/5 have significant health problems after getting Covid. It's just so all over the damn place. There's something deeply wrong with medicine here, it makes for an...

For sure they find inspiration in not letting this happen, know what is awaiting them if it's allowed to happen. This is comically out of touch, although maybe it's just a terrible title and the rest is OK. On the hand, ironically, they find inspiration in that people do recover naturally from...

US Congress (sub-committee) hearing on Long Covid happening today:

Uh, no, they have not. The frequency at which aspirational goals are presented as if they were happening is truly bizarre. The efforts remain pitiful and many countries have made denial the official policy. There is huge demand, for sure, but nothing substantial is being done to meet it, mostly...

The LC clinics are literally promoting quackery en masse. The patients understand this and it is bringing discredit to the entire profession. It's beyond hypocritical for medical and public health institutions to warn long haulers about quackery when most of the clinics are built on quackery and...

Uh, I could read it last night. In full. They probably published it open access by mistake and locked it after. It's filled with basic errors, misinterpretation, circular sophistry throughout. He actually claims that GET is good because it's used for other diseases, e.g. post-Covid-19. Yes, he...

Of course. Academia is broken. This is 99% politics and "he says they say we disagree". There is no arbiter, everything is rhetoric and influence. This is a completely broken way of doing things, one that places zero value on outcomes and that this is about real people in real life.

It'd be really great whenever media talk about something "giving hope" to people, that it would actually check, rather than simply publish a quote from some bureaucrat who is simply saying this because it sounds nice. Although, to be fair, that's way more work than just stenography. Crumbs...

100%. Frankly, this pretty much makes the strongest case for why the SMC needs to be closed down, having completely failed its original mission. If the CEO of an organization that is in the promotion of scientific truth is so heavily engaged on the wrong side of it, that organization clearly...

The only good outcome of this is that LC blows this controversy open for what it really is and ends up destroying the SMC for their misbehavior, in general and Fox and Wessely in particular. Hard to look more foolish than this as an organization pretending to uphold science, and doing exactly...

Those are all adjustments, effects to the cause. This makes as much sense as observing that poor people have no savings and that therefore having no savings is what makes people poor, so poor people should just be encouraged to save money and they won't be poor anymore. Or in the same idea...