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Ha! I did the tub interview a month ago, and Damon just posted it. Maybe he timed it to give me a final boost!

i'm not sure my chest hair is of much interest to anyone, but he asked what I liked about my body, so I had to answer.

It's done. thanks to all!

thanks, Barry--and to all who have donated.

this seems accurate

Long covid is a large category that includes, it seems, everyone with symptoms months after an acute infection. Some but not all of these patients might be diagnosed with ME or ME/CFS or whatever, if they have the same symptom complex. We don't really know what ME/CFS is, and many people reject...

I have donated to Keith's fund and fully support him. It is unfortunate that we both need to do this.

I think this is more likely now, with the long Covid connection. the problem is my project falls kind of between the slats--it's journalism and public health academics rolled into one--not clearly one or the other. But certainly probably some aspects might be fund-able. I might try to look into...

Thanks, Andy! For some reason, when I paste the URL into a Virology Blog post, I can see the video in the draft version but in the published version it disappears and only the URL appears. So I've unpublished it for now. Does anyone know WordPress and what the issue is?

And also, they keep talking about software problems, but then they also have written papers about structural changes as well in various areas of the brain. And yet for some reason they continue talking about software/hardware in their more public presentations, like the neurosymptoms site. Have...

Can you elaborate? How does it work in other fields? I just don't get how anyone could know or prove that the brain has developed a pattern of faulty predictions, if that's what it means in English.

Thanks, Tom! I know both Keith and I appreciate your support! And Keith and I also both support each other. It is unfortunate that funding for this sort of work is not available through normal academic channels.

yes, exactly. It makes sense to think that the sicker ones are actually sicker, not that they're just 'somatizing" more. The argument seems backwards.

To say something is a "significant predictor" of something else is not making a causal statement but sounds to the ear like it is. In this case, you could just as easily say fibromyalgia is a significant predictor of psychological distress. It's just a statistical "predictor," not a...

I've never really understood the failure to take this seriously. And the Health Research Authority really whitewashed this and did not call them out on it. No one forced them to promise to adhere to Helsinki but they did. If they hadn't, I don't know that the prevailing standards in 2005 would...

Oh, I thought it was fair if you have the title of Professor at a top UK university? Was I wrong on that?

Don't the FND people keep insisting it's not a psychological disorder after all?

Yes, he seems to think she was part of the PACE trial.

Wow. These people really are beyond the pale.

Thanks!! As I've said many times, this crowdfunding is among my least favorite things to do. I wish I could figure out another method of funding my work, but I haven't come up with one. Unfortunately, it's not the kind of project that gets funded by major donors and foundations.