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I'm guessing he mixed up the Cochrane debacle with the NICE debacle, for which the controversy began when its publication got derailed for reasons that ended up being bogus. It's hard to keep track of so many lies, but this level of attention to details in discussing this appalling...

Treatment options are limited, so they 'tested' the current option that has been standard from day 1 and to which hundreds of thousands have been subjected, hence the widely known fact that there are no treatments. Yup, makes perfect sense when you don't think about it. Especially when they find...

It's all so ridiculous because there are definitely types of pain that improve with gentle stretching and movement, and those are precisely the kinds of pain that do get reported as having improved, but the underlying chronic pain causing the low activity levels that cause those secondary pains...

Where even does this idea that there is a magical series of movements that will cause meaningful improvements? And that trying them all is something worth doing? The whole premise makes no sense, it's barely any better than what medieval alchemists did. There is literally no plausible mechanism...

Saying that the government is doing that without considering who, exactly, has been doing that. Spoiler: it wasn't bureaucrats. Medicine is far too often used as a tool of oppression where their personal judgment is central to the whole, but somehow even basic accountability is entirely...

In what way is this true? We keep seeing people say that, and yet there is literally no evidence of this, in fact it has been thoroughly debunked. They are not characterized by this, in fact it's constantly argued that the treatment approach is generic and should be acceptable precisely because...

From comments by German users on bsky, this is a podcast for physicians and this episode features a lot of disinformation about LC and ME/CFS:

What chronic illness researchers won’t tell you https://forum.sickandabandoned.com/t/what-chronic-illness-researchers-wont-tell-you/542

This gets so close while being unable to get to the obvious, simply because the obvious has been dismissed for too long . Of course our mental health is strong, you have to be to live like this. Whatever problems we might have in that dimension, they can almost all pretty disappear in a snap if...

Clearly, if you give plants Brawndo, they will grow better than if you don't, because Brawndo has what plants crave. They crave it. You give it to them, it can't be bad, therefore has to be good. New science! Same as pre-science. Just like holistic, multidisciplinary has become fashionable...

The mindless idea that cortisol=stress as defined in the biopsychosocial model is ridiculous. Why is nonsense like this taken seriously? This is medieval alchemy level of oversimplistic reasoning. Oh, I'm sorry, I meant intuition, because apparently they can go with that without being laughed...

This is important because it exposes how much of the arguments against off-label medication aren't even real, since various mind-altering drugs are routinely prescribed, especially antidepressants, despite there being actual evidence against their efficacy. Obviously potentially dangerous...

I don't think there is a good answer. Anything hinting at pathology is a non-starter, so is anything that can be co-opted to mean the opposite by psychosomatizers, who will co-opt anything that gets traction, thus cancelling out. The most common, natural term I have seen is chronic illness...

This really needs to be considered alongside growing evidence of other infectious illnesses also leading to increases in cognitive problems, as well as evidence that some vaccines reduce them. But it remains difficult to assess the true burden here when somehow medicine seems incapable of...

Slop.

It's ridiculous how lazy this is. Even industry shills with no evidence to back their position do a better job of it, because they know and expect those arguments to be scrutinized. This whole response is pure slop, an insult to our intelligence just as much as the author's.

Invisible to Policy, Visible in Children’s Lives (Long Covid Kids)

Bubba: "Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp...

Worth putting here, because, yeah, oh yeah: