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  1. Sean

    "Abnormal illness behaviour" and the missing citations.

    Don't you just love his utter certainty. That cannot is doing an awful lot of lifting in that sentence. Just one word missing: known. Add that, and everything changes: But if he conceded that then his argument would disappear up its own fundament.
  2. Sean

    The biology of coronavirus COVID-19 - including research and treatments

    The Maths of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop (The audio and video go out of sync, but it doesn't matter as the talking head is just a small box in the corner. Plenty of good clear graphs and graphics.)
  3. Sean

    Understanding Veterans’ Causal Attributions of Physical Symptoms, 2020, Kimber et al

    Indeed. This kind of research tells us far more about what is going on in the minds of those doing the diagnosing than the minds of those being diagnosed. It is so distinct and persistent a phenomena it needs its own entry in the next DSM.
  4. Sean

    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    I have some polar bear repelling rocks, and I have never seen a polar bear around here. This has nothing to do with the fact that I live near the equator.
  5. Sean

    ETUDE: Encompassing Training in fUnctional Disorders across Europe

    I reject your non-explanation, and substitute my own non-explanation. :rolleyes:
  6. Sean

    Psychiatric Symptoms as the First or Solitary Manifestation of Somatic Illnesses: Hyperammonaemia Type II, 2020, Niwinski et al

    And neurological disorders/brain tumours/strokes/heart disease. Etc. The functional disorders claim rest entirely on the assumption that there is no underlying biological pathology. How they test that to a safe level has yet to be explained.
  7. Sean

    Internet based self-help randomized trial for motor Functional Neurological Disorder (SHIFT), 2020, Stone et al

    Satisfaction was high. Patients were relieved they didn't deteriorate?
  8. Sean

    Cochrane Database Syst Review - Psychosocial interventions for conversion and dissociative disorders in adults (2020) Ganslv et al.

    Maybe I missed something, but the 'BPS model' seems nothing more than the unoriginal idea that to best understand and control X, we should take into account all the significant causal factors influencing X.
  9. Sean

    Question: Coronavirus & home sewn masks?

    Have not been following mask design, but this one seems a good fit.
  10. Sean

    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    Good interview. "But you never know on any given day what is going to be too much [activity]." Especially early on when learning about it all.
  11. Sean

    Cochrane Database Syst Review - Psychosocial interventions for conversion and dissociative disorders in adults (2020) Ganslv et al.

    An unkind person might even suspect this to be corruption of the peer-review process. Good thing we are all kind here. :inlove:
  12. Sean

    Judy Mikovits

    When the problems with Mikovit's work started appearing my initial response was that she was just very unlucky to be the one hit with the unknown contamination problem that all lab scientists dread, and I really felt for her. But, sadly, as the evidence accumulated I have moved to she is at...
  13. Sean

    Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

    NIH Director Francis Collins (Dr Fauci's boss) supports Dr Fauci, and discusses other COVID issues.
  14. Sean

    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    We used to call this 'convalescence'.
  15. Sean

    Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

    Add into that the fact that millions of parents will now have had experience of trying to home school during the lock downs, and hence are likely to be more sympathetic to the lot of teachers. Plus the increased long-term morbidity for (at least some) survivors.
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