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I had two weeks of bronchitis 31 years ago when I was a robust 33-year-old. It took me two months not to be exhausted from anything. No one needed to tell me how to recover once I was told that a slow recovery was normal. Maybe for some people a program would be needed but I'm not sure why. I...

thanks for that context. very helpful.

you could be right on that. I take what he says to be really just a smokescreen for saying these are essentially psychological even if they have some biological substrates--it's the "to be sure" part of many articles, where you give a nod to the other side but don't really mean it. But perhaps...

In my experience, there is always a speed-up the last couple of days. But also, on Thursday evening my time, I sent out an update to my donors (750+ this time) that I had reached my goal and if anyone wanted to give this month, they should give to Keith's, and I included the link. I assume that...

they show pretty immediately on the Berkeley site. I didn't check when I donated to Keith's how quickly it showed up.

well, you have a point.

Yes, I also got an unexpected donation and am now at 101%

But the challenge is that people often have to rock it first with no apparent financial incentives. People are ok with funding Keith and me because we had started rocking the boat before ever seeking funding this way because we believed what we were doing was important to do. It would be hard to...

I'm sure there are. But applying for funds can itself be a full-time job. And these projects are fairly specific--both Keith and I are engaging in watchdogging bad research in the domains of ME, CFS and MUS. Many funders have broader interests.

It does suck from both sides of that equation--that is, as one of those who has no options but to seek community support. But it's amazing that people essentially raised around $100,000 this month, between Keith, me, and the $10,000 equipment crowdfunder for Ron Davis.

"prebuttals"--I always taught writing students to include "prebuttals" of the arguments the other side will raise.

what is that??

I am glad we are not cancelling each other out!

I have it easy in relation to Keith. I can just post something when I want. Keith has to get it into a form that someone will approve for their publication. Working with news organizations is somewhere in between. I sometimes will engage in the peer review process but mostly I don't have the...

well, his much-hyped Hep C interferon study was also missing the point.

And I've promoted Keith's and donated as well. very important. we're doing complementary things.

I don't think it's ok to allow a title like that to pass peer review. Although I gather that's what he calls the program, so in that sense it's the name of the training even though it has nothing to do with the science itself.

The idea that someone would refer to a trial as involving "amygdala and insula retraining" seems pretty ridiculous. I mean, whatever is happening, why call it that when you have no idea?

haven't poor children in Bristol and Bath suffered enough already??

My feeling about Bermingham et al is that it really was likely unintentional and then just kept being repeated as a commonly accepted "fact" that no one had to bother to double-check. I don't think all the misquotations were intentional. However, because they all believed the same thing, it was...