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  1. Sean

    BMJ: Chronic fatigue syndrome and Long Covid, moving beyond the controversy, 2021, Newman

    Gerada, et al, wouldn't be catastrophising, would they? Surely not. I mean if intelligent, highly educated and resourced and privileged professionals are having trouble coping, imagine what it is like for the ungrateful peasants patients they treat. Exactly. They want blanket immunity because...
  2. Sean

    BMJ: Chronic fatigue syndrome and Long Covid, moving beyond the controversy, 2021, Newman

    I agree. Doesn't mean we can let off the pressure, but does mean they are feeling it.
  3. Sean

    Interventions that manipulate how patients report symptoms as a separate form of bias

    I think we can go further now and state that the deconditioning hypothesis has been refuted and simply is not relevant. These questionnaires don't allow us to distinguish between patients' interpretation/perception of their symptoms, and their reporting of their interpretation/perception...
  4. Sean

    The pervasive problem with placebos in psychology: Why active control groups are not sufficient..., 2013, Boot et al.

    That is powerful stuff. Short version: There are no excuses for inadequate methodology.
  5. Sean

    BMJ: Chronic fatigue syndrome and Long Covid, moving beyond the controversy, 2021, Newman

    Not gonna lie, you had me to the end of the third sentence. :oops: :rolleyes: Beautiful. :laugh:
  6. Sean

    Investigating the relationship between physical activity and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Franklin, 2021

    People feel better when doing things they enjoy doing. Who knew? The project to confabulate pacing with GET continues. And still obsessed with the exercise is always good trope.
  7. Sean

    Lightning Process study in Norway - Given Ethics Approval February 2022

    Call me crazy, but have you ever considered proposing research that uses robust methodology?
  8. Sean

    UK: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) articles, blogs and discussion

    How about the problem with the whole IAPT project is less the implementation and more the underlying assumptions and content, or lack of it? Maybe a lot of this stuff is just irrelevant at best, and trying to force round pegs into square holes is never going to work? Ever considered that, guys?
  9. Sean

    BMJ: Chronic fatigue syndrome and Long Covid, moving beyond the controversy, 2021, Newman

    Which tells us far more about what is going on inside Garner's head than in ours'.
  10. Sean

    BMJ: Chronic fatigue syndrome and Long Covid, moving beyond the controversy, 2021, Newman

    "What of the researchers braving this often toxic academic terrain?" If they do their job competently and honestly, they will not have a problem. And vice-versa. FFS, it is not difficult to grasp this. If you pervert and abuse the scientific process, smear and malign your critics, and harm...
  11. Sean

    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    *sigh* So where is the evidence for efficacy of these 'teachings'?
  12. Sean

    Interventions that manipulate how patients report symptoms as a separate form of bias

    I don't doubt there are psychosocial factors that contribute to poor health, physical and mental. Including misdiagnosis and mistreatment by perverse applications of the psychosocial paradigm.
  13. Sean

    Article : During COVID to be vulnerable is to be told your life doesn't matter: Frances Ryan

    "It is remarkable how easily injustice can be accepted if it is being inflicted on the right set of people."
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