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Communication so clear it has to be constantly repeated, blasted forcefully into people's brains over and over again. And make it double ironic in that biopsychosocial ideology is all asserted to be based on superior expertise in human behavior. About as true as Lysenko had a superior...

It seems to me that intersectionality can more or less substitute for holistic in this context, in its actual dictionary sense of considering the full picture and all interconnected dimensions. The dimensions are slightly different but it's a similar concept. Except, of course, biopsychosocial...

Simon Spichak (of The Sick Times) posted a thread about clinical research on LC in Canada. Pretty bleak: I wish I still had enough hope in me to see this as a positive. Maybe it is, but we've been through years of evidence that none of the rehab stuff is any effective and still it completely...

It's really getting worse. I was surprised to see this posted on bsky by an academic who posts a lot and has written a book about alternative medicine and health misinformation. This entire EBM approach is only good at producing confusing fake signals, and yet it passes through the filters of...

Investigating the dose-response relationship between music and anxiety reduction: A randomized clinical trial https://journals.plos.org/mentalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmen.0000355 Abstract Anxiety is one of the most frequently reported mental health conditions worldwide, yet access to...

I found this thread interesting because the study (Omega3 for biopsychosocial stuff) has all the same issues that we are used to and criticize, while articles get regularly published there promoting things like exercise being beneficial for this and that, sometimes several per week, and they are...

Well this is an all-caps ironic but, uh, too late for that. It's here, it's done, because it's a lot of the same thing. Coming from the BMA, this is frankly ridiculous. They won't do a damn thing here, who the hell are they even kidding? I still find the idea of making this a health care...

Except that she hasn't, including being an author of this paper and all. Chalder is no different than Parker or Landmark. None of these people are. They are all impossibly biased and conflicted about it, but the entire medical system is just as biased and conflicted about it, no one wants to...

I also don't see how LP is any different from CBT, which is so vague as to be meaningless. And she is now a psychologist, so while not a physician, she is an 'expert'. The issue here is mainly that everyone involved in this ideology has significant biases and conflicts of interest, so much that...

It's clearly ongoing for GWI so doubtful, but the UK government (or a lower level?) did apologize for Camelford so presumably someone must have looked into that enough. Add on to that 9/11-related illnesses as well, from which more died than from the attacks. The man has an incredible track...

Obviously if you dunk a witch in water, well, then clearly she must be a witch, otherwise why would any reasonable person do that? Aren't they reasonable people? So, there, that's all the evidence anyone needs. Now it becomes an official act, immune from any and all consequences. Unlike doing it...

Plus if anything actually worked, a lot of patients would pay the drugs themselves, unless the price is so excessive only multimillionaires can afford it. And even then. This is literally what the AIDS buyers' clubs were all about! There is precedent for this! And it's not the distant past...

I don't like the local angle and the framing of "thousands", but, hey, front page. https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2026-03-14/thousands-of-people-disabled-by-long-covid-seek-answers

Accidentally telling the truth? In this economy?! This argument is asinine. Pharmaceutical patents grant a total monopoly but are short. If we find a drug that works but is very expensive, it will be far less expensive in a few years time, and with the proper motivation it would spur research...

Also, it's not as if this is not a major area of economics. Externalities are a well-known problem, one of the biggest economic problems of our times, and it's precisely all about how hiding the bill doesn't remove the cost. Economists study these things a lot. Governments base a lot of...

Indeed. I have harped a lot about how this has been predicted and it frustrates me how it's so rare to say it. It was predicted, and this is the worst-case scenario, especially the response from experts and governments. It doesn't matter all that much if it's 1M, 10M or 1B, it's that nothing is...

Analysis by a sufferer: ME/CFS and experiences with doctors and the healthcare system https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000312217/analyse-eines-betroffenen-mecfs-und-die-erfahrungen-mit-aerzten-und-gesundheitssystem Almost word for word what a Scottish pwME (Emma?) testified in (IIRC?) a...

ME/CFS: Welcome to the worst-case scenario https://www.zdfheute.de/wissen/mecfs-gesundheit-terrax-nano-jens-foell-kolumne-100.html

This whole ideology is built like some sort of evolutionary algorithm that doesn't implement mutations so every generation is a clone of the original but it doesn't matter because producing the same outcome every generation is framed as a success. There are kingdoms that lasted for centuries...

It's so hard to believe this putrid nonsense is the level of discourse in medicine, in professional publications, when they face the slightest bit of challenge. Literally pre-Enlightenment nonsense. After everything that happened, after all this time, and we are still dealing with the same...