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And yet, somehow, it has long been declared that we are deconditioned. Even though there is no standard assessment for such a thing. That would make a curious person think. That should make a scientist think hard. Ah, well. I must say that academic discussions like this do not inspire...

Uh, I wonder if there's anything, or several things, that can cause those things besides, I guess that's the idea here, themselves. I guess those things must be happening for no reason, and thus explain their own existence by their own presence, in a "I am my own grandfather and it's not a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy: It definitely plays a huge role in the overt discrimination against us, and in general in attitudes towards disability. It probably explains why medical research is so under-funded and disability support is so heavily restricted, people think of...

Canadian Collaborative Conference on ME November 4-6 2025 https://icancme.ca/research/2025-me-conference/ Program: https://icancme.ca/wp-content/uploads/EN_FullMEConferenceProgram_FINAL.docx.pdf

Eh, not a single country actually did that. It's a human thing. We value things far more than we value human lives, which is only as far as labour potential goes, and always assuming that more bodies can be found if needed, so not much. The same apparently goes whatever government is in charge...

To me it comes off as very creepy behaviour. It's just wrong, like selling weapons to both sides of a war, but extra ridiculous.

And the perfect streak of betrayal continues. A 100% streak going back all the way to the beginning. Amazing. No other job where, as a professional, you can simply copy-paste a total failure and get away with it when you were explicitly tasked with "this is a failure, we need better outcomes"...

So much potential, always hypothetical, yet somehow never realized. The explanation for the futility trial sounds like gobbledygook to me. Not the words, the excuses. They don't even understand the problem. Three biases in a trenchcoat. It's literally always three biases in a trenchcoat.

The level of lying and deceit in this profession is on the same level as some of the current absurd levels we see in politics. You can read the same things said about the exact same ideas 50 or a 100 years ago. They perfected the con of "we'll deliver something in two weeks, boss" because there...

Overall not too bad on the facts, I've seen a lot worse, but massively understates, or misunderstands, how dire the situation is. It shifts between bluntly recounting facts that make it clear things are terrible, but finds its way to praise what has been done anyway, while lamenting that it all...

I guess they kind of did, although more on the checklist, or whatever: But it doesn't change their conclusions, arrived at from prior beliefs: So: it could be wrong, but let's assume it's right anyway. Or suggest it, but with a passive voice that makes it seem like a natural conclusion. Words...

That's a lot of words to say that some people are working hard to block this from happening, in secret, behind closed doors. Same as always, which is very significant and telling. No system can function with this much sabotage from within, but then again institutions exist for no other purpose...

The emperor's invisible robe may not quite be as described, by anyone, but we are no fools and therefore there must be a robe, as otherwise we are rubes.

- The Aristocrats! - Evidence-based medicine

At some point we'll need to go on attack about the lies that opposition to the psychobehavioural model comes from a small minority. It is, in fact, a supermajority position, even direct opposition to it has a strong majority. Because this lie keeps going around. The leaders in the ideology keep...

Old and foolish: COVID is no worse than the flu in terms of long-term health consequences, and thus those consequences can be entirely ignored. Young and wise: COVID causes long-term health consequences, which medicine has no ability to treat, predict or manage, but year-round, all the time...

Not much detail beyond that. It really all depends on what the definition of 'psychiatric' is, which after years of reading straight from the sources has less meaning than I started with. Something mostly about impacting function to the point of being behaviorally noticeable but has an unknown...

This is especially impressive because the study absolutely cannot and does not say that. The conclusions do say some things, but there is no actual supporting data for it. In fact this is effectively a thorough debunking, but neither data nor outcome matter so we get headlines like this. So...

A number of similar studies have been published in recent years, arguing the opposite conclusion, that Long Covid can be ignored because it's no worse than other infections illnesses, as long as one ignores that COVID is much more contagious. Well, there is a huge decades-long record of...