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I guess it depends whether they're speaking in their professional capacity or not. We can all witter on about anything we like as private individuals, but when we're on the clock, the rules change.

Extra-terrestrial teacher: "And of course that lot died out because their ecosystem was collapsing, but half their researchers carried on sh*tposting about made-up mental health disorders."

From me: Hello from Kitty in the middle of England. I have had ME since 1976, so it has been a long journey, but I am very excited about the new study into the genetics of ME. Medical researchers are working directly with patients, and hope to receive DNA from 20,000 British ME sufferers to...

I hope they're not going to put the unbalanced ones in the rocking bed, because that is NOT going to go well...

As @lunarainbows says, yes there are. Talk to a pharmacist, they're really helpful. Some people can mix a drowsy with a non-drowsy antihistamine, for instance, as their actions are slightly different; I was also cleared to take fexofenadine and loratadine on the same day but 12 hours apart. It...

One of the problems I have with the medical definition is the term vague. If "vague" means illness caused by lots of different symptoms then it might just about pass, but a lot of ME symptoms are specific: certain muscles groups that never stop hurting, migraine, nausea, swollen neck glands...

Oh, thank you. I'd never heard of it before.

I'm afraid I've never heard of a journal club. Could you possibly give a bit of detail about what they are, in case people in different areas just have different names for the same thing?

Local ME patients know it's to be avoided like the plague, and some GPs do too. My previous doctor, now sadly long retired, warned me two decades ago that the clinic (in its previous incarnation) mainly offered exercise classes, and someone recently moved to the area mentioned in a WhatsApp...

I've only filled in the form once, so I couldn't remember. But I do use it indoors, always in big buildings and sometimes at home, so I guess I said that. Ooh, get you—posh! :laugh: I've had the updated rates for PIP and ESA in the last few weeks, and ours are still in the brown 'uns. You've...

I've never had an assessment for ESA at all since my first claim in 2014, and I've never been given a fixed award length. Maybe someone has to look at it periodically, but they've never contacted me about it. So it is technically feasible, but I don't know how the decision is made. It's...

My MacBook is silent, as was the previous one. I don't think I've come across a computer that activated a fan in normal use since they had spinning disks. My last one eventually got to the stage where it would start the fan if I was doing something like watching a film and uploading tons of...

I don't typically have a problem with this kind of device, but at one point I did have a blender that made a noise I couldn't bear. Trouble was, it chopped large quantities of ginger more efficiently than anything else I'd had, and I couldn't afford to try several others. So I timed how long...

I'm not sure it's worth putting a lot of effort into renaming a condition that we still can't explain, because it's fairly likely that whatever is chosen will, in at least some respects, be as inaccurate as ME. Also, it feels as if there's something important in successfully "detoxifying" ME as...

I do the same with marmalade, and it seems to work well. I've realised that in my case, high-salt food is often the cause of the pain. There's a possibility I have periodic paralysis, which would explain that link; since sugar always makes my muscles go floppy, it's feasible that it's relieving...

I tend to agree. I don't think genetic diseases are often found accidentally through WGS; they're found, sometimes after many years, by the right expert recognising the symptoms, and then confirming it through genetic tests. Or at least trying to; in many cases not all the variants concerned are...

I wouldn't describe less than 90 minutes per week of aerobic activity as particularly inactive. Okay, so members of that group clearly aren't long distance runners or cyclists, but you could be doing two or three sessions a week of interval training within that, which will keep you considerably...

Good point. I find it useful when a link is accompanied by an indication of how long the article is, e.g. "Five-minute read". Sometimes I get drawn into things by picking a short article first, and then if it's decent quality or interesting, I'll look at longer ones.

It was a great talk, I really enjoyed it too. The only thing I have doubts about is the idea of science being able to move on when the current generation of scientists retires. Not only did they train the subsequent generation, but the politics and funding of healthcare are actively pushing...