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Because they have been getting away with it, for decades, and clearly still are.

That is a big red flag about the mindset we are dealing with.

Still stuck in the it's-just-a-problem-with-the-marketing mindset.

Three is a small number to be calling it confirmed. Though I agree that both degree of change and the close match in the patients' experience provides good support for it. Excellent news, if the findings hold up, even if only for some. How much, if any, prompting or rehabilitating did they...

The main assumption being that medicine knows all there is to know about basic physiology, and there is nothing important left to discover, so there is no need to keep looking. "....we cannot succeed if we use DSM categories as the “gold standard.” The diagnostic system has to be based on the...

This. No amount of sophistry is going to substitute for lack of adequate control.

It is the same old shit, just with a superficial layer of NICE compliant language pasted over the top. They clearly still think that it is all about our misperceptions and dysfunctional responses, and a lack of structure and routine in our cognition and behaviour, and that imposing their...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is just the CBT and exercise crowd trying to hang onto their empire, via a superficial rewording and toning down of the same claim they have been making for decades. It remains CBT and exercise all the way down, despite the lack of...

What is missing is a demonstrable pathological tissue damage. And always will be missing if the basic research is not done, which it has not been so far. I wonder who benefits from that? Hint: Not patients.

Somebody has started a petition asking the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our version of the BBC) to address Norman Swan's comments on ME/CFS and Long Covid. See the petition section of the forum.

Somebody has started a petition asking the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our version of the BBC) to address Norman Swan's comments on ME/CFS and Long Covid. The ABC is Swan's long term employer, and his primary platform (mainly as the weekly Health Report). Stop the ABC from...

They must be getting good at guessing them by now.

More meta is not necessarily the answer.

I don't think we should back off at all until that damn thing is actually withdrawn completely, and an explicit note added redirecting visitors to the NICE and IOM guidelines, at least until Cochrane's re-review is actually done. Then we have to start preparing for the re-review.

Anybody surprised? Just more evidence that the BPS club could not have survived and prospered for as long as they have without the highest level of political patronage and protection. That is the real reason this shitfest is taking so long to fix. Too many people in political and economic...

Whose psychological processes? Patients, or clinicians?

:):thumbup:

On his own admission, in his official study of Gulf War veterans, Wessely performed no clinical examination or laboratory investigations. Just following in the grand tradition of psychosomatics. See Beard & McEvedy, 1970 (a & b).

The inconsistency and incongruence are entirely in the minds of the FMD/FND advocates. More than two decades on they are still stuck at the 'promising' stage, yet recommending it as if it is a done deal, a mature field. Sound familiar?

Clearly psychosomatics is the hill modern medicine has chosen to die on. Pity they will take millions of innocent patients' lives down with them in their brazen grab for power, glory, and income.