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The stigma will continue until a questionnaire makes it appear as if morale improves, then... more stigma. Ridiculous. They reject the answer and keep making up the same one.

That is just pure nonsense. And obviously false. All this shows is that the so-called experts here have no clue what they are talking about, cannot tell the difference between illness and mental health. Which makes the whole claim to expertise likely a sham. It likely means that almost all...

Yeah, and we've seen it in action with the exercise review. Well, not "seen" so much as witnessed its complete absence. But apparently they claim it exists. Somewhere. On the 3rd moon of Saturn, perhaps.

That expects a lot out of NICE. They may have done right thing once, but it's likely more because there were people present who did not allow the whole thing to be biased. I'm not entirely sure this is a mistake they will allow to happen again. There's a good chance for a good response from NICE...

And Crawley, unless I'm mistaken. Even though she is still doing the same things. But given her work with Ladhani on CloCK, who was an author of a recent analysis trying to downplay Long Covid as non-existent, it's not really any different. But her absence here is still notable.

It truly is the old shamanism. It's something super simple, as simple as a dance, but you have to know the exact right way to do it, and only a trained master can show it to you. For a price. But all it takes to become a trained master is a week-end course. Or something like that.

It's a fair assumption, but given any random MD from the UK, what is the probability they'd give the same advice? Now make it one likely to advise a Conservative PM who badly wanted to ignore an ongoing pandemic and its consequences? Not likely to be anywhere below 90%. Wessely did a lot of...

Damn. There's bad, and then there's "90% worse outcome" level of bad. Not just useless, but actively harmful leading to worse outcomes than nothing at all. While they insist it's a complete cure and if you aren't better then it's your fault for lacking motivation, or having negative beliefs...

Symptom-defined? As opposed to... what? By definition syndromes have to be symptom-defined, since this is, you know, the damn definition of what a syndrome is. This is like when people try to dismiss symptoms as being patient-reported, the very definition of what symptoms are. It's always...

JNNP initially published only one letter, and it was the only one written by a MD who doesn't have ME. Although they didn't publish the one by the group of MDs with ME. They haven't even replied to my request to explain why mine is censored. I think they'll publish this one as a normal letter...

They bought the flavor-aid years ago. You can't return the flavor-aid. If there's one thing we've seen in recent years, and sadly it's just as true in academia, it's that admitting a mistake is worse than a lifetime of failures. Only then there are consequences, so the lesson is to just never...

Using a 12 foot ladder?

Never have to provide any evidence. Never have to face accountability for being wrong. Never any liability for massive harm done. Just move on to other stuff and repeat the exact same thing. The perfect failure loop. Seriously this is literally the absolute perfect way to fail. It's not...

Unfortunately, according to experts in so-called evidence-based medicine, he just wasn't motivated enough to get over his anxieties and recover from the sick role to make millions of dollar. Or whatever it is they tell themselves. Ex-Canuck Brandon Sutter retires after long-COVID comeback...

A tool for inspection of RCTs (what about non-controlled ones? because there are tons of them in EBM) from Cochrane. Which looks to mostly involve asking people involved in so-called evidence-based medicine (EBM) what they think of EBM and whether their methods and reviews are good. Yeah...

Protocol for the development of a tool (INSPECT-SR) to identify problematic randomised controlled trials in systematic reviews of health interventions Preprint: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.21.23295626v1 Abstract Introduction Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) inform...

At least temporarily, it's sad to say but Long Covid has actually set us back. I saw an article promoting GET in a local newspaper. Didn't bother reading it, it's always the same crap anyway. And here Knoop can just make stuff as much as he wants, everything they do is opaque and based on "trust...

Also, of course the allegations were false. The ones made by Wessely and his gang anyway. Allegations which later morphed into being trolled on the Internet, which even they walked back. And still the threats are repeated to this day, even though they were debunked.

He has? Because he made a few comments about his research some years ago, can't remember where, and he didn't have anything to mention other than he thought it was depression, then realized it isn't, even though this is what most MDs believe, and that they renamed it CFS, which is one of the...

Yeah, but the chance of some contamination issues arising, either in the supply itself or during injection, is definitely not zero. These things happen. On a long enough timeline, they are guaranteed to happen to a significant absolute number of people, even if it's a small proportion. So this...