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Yes, that is not great. But even there they are leaving wiggle room: Clinical evidence about a possible overlap between ME/CFS and long COVID is not yet clear. So get to researching it properly then.

The devil will be in the details. But on the face of it this looks quite promising. They seem to have understood this is not well understood yet, needs a multi-factor approach, with long-term commitment, the involvement of all relevant parties, and the relevance of ME to it all. Parliamentary...

This post has been copied and some of the following posts moved from the News from Australia thread to keep the discussion in one place. The devil will be in the details. But on the face of it this looks quite promising. They seem to have understood this is not well understood yet, needs a...

Sure is. I am male, but I get that too when clinical staff realise that 1) I used to work in the hospital system, and in a job that required more than a little knowledge and skill, and which they depended heavily on to be able to do their job, 2) that I actually do know more than a bit of the...

+1 :thumbup:

This could work.

Now that is interesting. :geek::nerd:

One could be excused for wondering if such definitions are convenient straw men, deliberately constructed to be easy to take down with superficial statistical arguments, without actually revealing much about the real underlying problem/s.

A bit of 'nudging', one might even say. :whistle:

I wonder who is advising them to go down this path?

This is the outcome of decades of the BPS approach. They have refined a pseudo-scientific methodology that only delivers the carefully tailored correlations they want, by deliberately and systematically discarding, diluting, or downplaying outcome measures and trial designs that might test for...

If exercise was going to fix it, or even just help significantly alleviate it, that would have been clear decades ago.

That is all ye need know.

Based on our findings, we recommend low-intensity, sub-symptom aerobic exercise to treat long COVID. o_O

There is one hell of a story to be told here. Just not the one that mainstream journalism is currently telling, to the extent that it is telling any story about it.

"The model is thus vague, all-inclusive, and lacks meaningful scientific content. Essentially the BPSM states a truism about illness." It explains everything, and hence nothing. It lacks specificity, falsifiability, testability, coherence, limits. It lacks humility and honesty and humanity...

This. Of all those involved in this farce, they have the least excuse of all. This is exactly the sort of stuff they are supposed to be the experts at, and advise the rest of us on how to not make these kinds of mistakes.

@adambeyoncelowe

There are few things I loathe more in this world than for-profit science journals. If I was king for a day they would be among the first up against the metaphorical wall.

I would like it if they used at least some of that money to increase their sample sizes.