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Well, I just appreciate that whoever made that donation chose to do so. I guess I was trying to convey my opinion that, in addition to being generous, it was smart.

If you live in California, and have an adjusted gross income of over $500,000, you can easily find yourself in the 50% tax bracket (Federal & State combined). You can wind up paying half of any additional income in taxes. However, if you donate that money to a qualified charity, it is not...

As of a couple of days ago (10/30), they had raised $370,000, which means about $123,333 in donations has been tripled by the addition of $246,666 in matching funds. It also means they need about $51,666 in additional donations (to be matched with $103,333) to meet their $525,000 goal.

I found out why the goal is $525,000 by watching the video in the first post of this thread. Someone has pledged up to $350,000 to triple the donations made during this period (10/23-11/27). The "matching" donor adds double to whatever your donation is, so, if you donate $100, they add $200 to...

Hopefully, they'll realize that the best way to stand up for science against antiscience agitators is to go ahead and withdraw the review.

[And seems to cause psych majors to leave uncorrected typos in four-year-old articles.] I imagine it's especially unlikely since neither "Dysania" nor "Clinomania" are listed in either the DSM or the ICD. On the other hand, neither is "Drapetomania" - the 19th century "mental illness" that...

I may be repeating something already noted elsewhere, but why would you "temporarily withdraw" something in order to allow the authors time to "adequately address the feedback received?" Why not say, "You've got X days to answer our questions or we're withdrawing your review"? It reads to me...

So, I've been a bit confused about this... What is the distinction between donating to The Open Medicine Foundation and donating directly to The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Center (CFSRC) at Stanford?

I'm waiting for the headline: "Biopsychosocial Attribution Found to be a Biopsychosocial Condition."

The earliest paper of Leonard Jason's that I can find on CFS is from 1993... so, he's been at it for at least 25 years. :thumbup:

I can't imagine why people who have voiced such certainty about their own political beliefs would be so keen to back the idea that psychiatry can determine "correct beliefs" from "false beliefs." I mean, it's like something you used to hear was going on in the old Soviet Union. Oh, wait...

[All bolding mine] I believe that clearly makes it one scientist involved, speaking for herself, not scientists.

"Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in." - GK Chesterton Of course, it doesn't always work. :)

Speculation: Just out of curiosity, I wondered if sleep deprivation might increase tryptophan. I guess I was thinking that the body might try to force sleep by producing more (if it can produce more). Or perhaps tryptophan is "consumed" during sleep - so its level would rise if you didn't...

"The best thing I’ve done from a sociological and community standpoint was to embrace the activists. Instead of rejecting them, I listened to them. I remember looking out a window and people on the lawn of the NIH were throwing smoke bombs. The Montgomery County Police were ready to arrest them...

Signert!

I would hate to speculate about such a conversation, but... "Hey, the University just got a $9.6 million grant from the NIH to search for the biological causes of ME/CFS. Thanks for inviting speakers here who probably think we should give it back. That's great publicity for us."

Seems like an effect like the "tilted hallway" I posted above might be caused by a problem with the 4th cranial nerve, aka the "Trochlear Nerve." Unlike the other eleven, multi-functional cranial nerves, the only thing the 4th cranial nerve controls is the muscle that rotates the eye around...

And assuming they are talking about physical trauma/injury leading to vestibular problems (which can happen), how do they explain the "epidemics"?

I assume by "with a history of trauma" they mean something along the lines of a physical injury, like a blow to the head or some other kinetic force on the body. I really don't recall experiencing anything like that in the months prior to onset - and it's the kind of thing that I, or my...