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When you don't know that "chronic fatigue" is actually serious and shouldn't ever have been dismissed. Alternatively it could be dismissed again so the cycle repeats again and again... Hard to think of a charitable interpretation of that quote. And if this is an official reason... ready the...

The "therapies" appear to be a mish-mash of many different things with no other relation than being delivered using VR. What should it matter how a bunch of disparate stuff is delivered if they're all different? It's nonsense to say that VR therapy is a therapy anymore than it differs doing it...

Uh, citation? Wat? This thing where medicine treats symptoms in isolation, detached from their context, has become a tragic farce blocking most of the progress that could have been done already. Complete nonsense. Context matters, damnit.

All of which will be familiar...

Totally consistent. It's the latest craze and also no one's buying it. How does it make it sense for something to be effective yet people stop using it? It doesn't. At all. It's essentially an appeal to authority: authorities are using it, therefore it must be good, otherwise they wouldn't be...

Underselling it. It's amazing. Thank you, Caroline! Love to use Garner's words trashing Cochrane against him. Not so much as a gotcha but to get Cochrane to at least acknowledge his unprofessional behavior and how it reflects poorly on them.

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It appears that the lead researcher on one of the $470M NIH initiative is a psychiatrist, which I guess means they have little intention of actually solving this. The NIH does seem willing to waste a billion dollars. Mount Sinai Named a Lead Site for Enrollment in Nationwide Study on the...

The most amazing thing here is that the public health messaging from the start, and still is, has been that Covid is mostly harmless to those below 60, in part because of this belief system. So much emphasis on mild illness, in addition to asymptomatic cases being rather common. As a result, the...

Uh, hmmm, yeah... Yes, it rained, yes, there is water on the ground, but who knows if the 2 are connected? Could be astral projection, I guess? Maybe spontaneous liquefication. Who knows? Could even be ghosts! You hear hoofs? Think howling monkeys, of course. This thing where not having the...

They really need to talk with patients. Not to. With. This is awful. Complete caricature of what it's like to be ill. Diagnoses are "validating" because they are the ticket to everything happening in health care. It's not an abstract, it's a requirement without which nothing happens. That...

I really don't like where this is going. This is basically the nightmare scenario disguised as a blessing, because 99.9% of health care services would not see it as a problem: a variant that is highly contagious, causes less acute illness of the "needs hospitalization" kind, but is even worse at...

I don't understand the weird obsession with the "gut-brain axis". Every organ in the body is directly connected to the brain, literally everything has to. Never hear about the liver-brain axis. Or any other combination. The interaction between the brain/nervous system and the immune system...

Prepare. Pre, meaning: before. Nope, not it. 2 years into this is definitely not before, it's far after.

And another one for the file of so-called lessons learned from the AIDS crisis. We may be vindicated with time, but we will have been just as hated, if not more because it has lasted far longer. And that anger was explicitly and disgustingly used against us, just like it was. Zero lessons...

It's pretty clear that medical information is communicated top-down. The top hasn't communicated this because they are in denial. Medicine is seriously lacking in leadership, there just isn't any.

He says things his medical peers want to hear. Same as Sharpe and Wessely or Stone. Nothing special, certainly not a luminary. These people are in the marketing business and there's plenty of demand for it, they don't even have to make any effort at it and there's basically infinite money...

There is a legislative debate today in the French parliament for a LC resolution, 2nd debate. It appears to have unanimously passed: I don't know much about French politics, legislative resolutions are typically non-binding so I have no idea how much bite this has. I assume none at all...