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About the only exception to this, the only one I can see it worth lobbying governments for, is ARPA-H, the medical research program from the US department of defence. It's mirrored on DARPA, their equivalent for, well, un-healthing people, and it's built precisely to pursue the kinds of research...

Not a chance. We are randomly distributed throughout the population, and so have zero political influence. Disability support and medical research are basically political poison, almost no one cares and it will never sway any election. It's seen as a cost, a loss, not an investment. Not even...

I think it's pretty clear that we have to stop waiting for governments to act. They won't, not until they can lazily reach out and take credit for it. Medical research for specific diseases is mostly funded by private donations, with government research being mostly reserved for basic research...

So, symptoms and their burden. As is always the case, but trying to over-complicate things in ways that add nothing. Those clusters don't mean a damn thing. Not a single step beyond what was known on day 1: people experiencing symptoms that negatively impact their lives. We knew this. We still...

The problem will worsen from the intervention, as the intervention has nothing to do with the actual problem, more than it will from no intervention. Thus somehow justifying the intervention. Because outcomes are entirely irrelevant to this ideology, it's about control and imposing their will...

It also totally covers up the fact that when patients say that health care is failing us, it's literally because of this garbage. The problem of sick people being exploited by alternative medicine quacks is a distant problem compared to the fact that real medicine itself mostly offers quackery...

Especially when, and this should be in all shouty all-caps so just imagine it, but, they call this evidence-based medicine! In the end this is what most of the physicians pushing this ideology retreat back: "well, I know it works because I make it work in my practice". Or some bullshit like...

Once is an accident. Twice is an oversight. Any more is a pattern. Wherever we are is way more than a pattern, it is "just the way things are", systemic failure of choice. No one has even implausible deniability at this point, it's 100% intentional and calculated. Bit of a twist on the old...

Sounds very illegal. Also not that I believe in this stuff, but the kind of stuff that many religions reserve a special place for. Geez, there are entire legal doctrines around this kind of collective punishment. Although they do overlap in two ways: they are similarly discriminated, thus...

The total indifference to those mistakes is so baffling. It's like they don't even want to improve. If psychosomatic ideology were almost anything else, it would have been banned with prejudice decades ago. But it's basically acting out like the shitty nepo baby of a dictator allowed to rampage...

https://www.ipicsociety.org.uk/ They have some content reserved to members. A quick look suggests the same old nonsense. https://www.ipicsociety.org.uk/long-covid-clinical-network/

The Evolution of the British Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/27536351251392199 No abstract, just a short editorial but it has things/news that we hadn't noticed so here goes: Yes. 40 years ago. Just begun. Barely a middle-ager...

All the blame for this is on medicine, though. It uses the tools and standards of psychology, and I guess in some way it must make psychology academics pretty happy as it validates them more than anything could. Although we should definitely expect better of them, to see how their tools and...

I guess people really think that. Damn people are weird. Just so freaking balls-out weird. I just don't see them that way at all. Same with medicine. I see them more in the same vein as cops and judges, maybe bureaucrats. Doesn't mean either good or bad, but it certainly means none of those...

This is a good example of so many problems with psychiatry and where it applies to psychosomatic ideology. It takes a wildly privileged person to think this in 18th century Scotland. This is someone who was born into privilege, has never known anything but people who also live in privilege, and...

It definitely was enforcing the laws that made it happen. Same with smoking in public. Education mostly reinforces the behaviour of those who would follow the law to avoid the penalties anyway, but it definitely is the penalties that make the different, not the education. As people see...

And, frankly, at least equal parts their own self-reports of their own perceptions of some of the outwardly visible aspects of our behaviours. In fact, mostly that.

This would be a complete reset, as no psychosocial anything currently in use meets such standards. None. And very little psychological anything. This is exactly what's needed. Low standards only lead to one outcome: low standards. Will that doctor be willing to accept conclusions that show no...

But there aren't 'two models'. there isn't even one. All we have is data and speculation. Even trying to lump up all the weird psychosomatic models as one thing is wrong, there are literally dozens and they don't even make any sense! And the framing of "brain-to-body-to-brain" is just...

In pretty much every country, health care services are struggling so hard they can't even guarantee basic services anymore, and this is just the beginning of the demographic collapse. Lots of that is because of the petulant reaction to COVID pretty much amount to "oh heah? we'll just get all the...