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yes, I found that statement particularly ironic.

Journals have different processes and names for different categories. This is clearly not an editorial written in the name of the journal. I don't know Lancet's procedure on these. just because a piece might be invited does not mean it is automatically not peer-reviewed, so best not to make...

I'm confused what this is in reference to? participant in what trial?

I read this first as the mother having been bitten when the mother was 15, but when I re-read it I was convinced that the patient herself was bitten when the patient was 15. It's not clear. But we know two things: Someone was bitten, and someone was 15.

Brian Hughes and I have heard from Occupational Medicine that it will be publishing our letter, along with a response from the authors, within a few weeks. We haven't seen the Chalder response yet. The journal will not retract the study. It also sounds, remarkably, that the journal will not...

my cousins used to sing a song about me that they called "the worry song" when I was 7 or 8. We all still remember it.

can you translate for Americans?

questionnaires like that are not designed for people with actual limiting disabilities. They are inappropriate here.

yes, but really they can't rule anything in or out with this study, given that it is a single cohort with no comparison group.

The study states this about the Penn State Worry Questionnaire: "The PSWQ is considered a valid and reliable measure of problematic worry for patients with CFS.” But this sentence is not referenced. Who considers this scale "valid and reliable" for CFS patients? I found only one study of CFS...

The woman has been studying CBT for CFS for 30+ years. She just noticed that patients worry??

Jo, this is interesting. I guess when I've seen that general meme I've understood it as meaning what I assumed VanE meant--that people with what would actually be MS (or myasthenia) were being misdiagnosed as having hysteria, not specifically that those who recognized MS called it hysteria...

I wasn't aware of prior reports that hamsters were experiencing long covid. Who knew??

I guess I don't understand this point. I didn't see VanE reference MS as an analogy for ME. I don't think his tweets mentioned ME. I can see the literal meaning of the first tweet could easily be how you interpreted it. But I just read it differently--as him noting that people in the past have...

Yes, I can understand why it might be read that way, and it might have been sloppily phrased, but I think his meaning was clearer from the context of subsequent tweets like this one, in which he cited a study that noted how cases of MS were often misdiagnosed as hysteria despite the existence of...

I didn't read VanE's tweet to mean no one knew the pathology before scans but that people were often misdiagnosed as having hysteria.

good points. I haven't read it yet--just going by what was posted here, and by the people involved. I'll take a look.

The claim that the uninfected also suffer the same symptoms seems like a real stretch, since that was the message of the very flawed French study that came out not long ago--basing "infection" on serology alone is seriously problematic. I'm not sure why this case they seem to be making--that...

you mean like Herbert Hoover?

I've only seen the headlines. Does the research imply that this is THE cause for all MS or that it is a necessary or contributing factor in many cases? Also, does mono/glandular fever only occur in adolescents/adults with newly acquired EBV infection? If you acquired it, like many, in early...