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Comparative risk of post-acute sequelae among adults following SARS-CoV-2 or influenza virus infection: A retrospective cohort study among United States adults https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004777 PLOS Medicine Background Post-acute sequelae (PAS) of...

I really hate this political medicine thing. It's actually becoming harder with time to say that the lying and fraud in politics are worse than this, they're the exact same. About the only difference is there is only one dominant ideology, completely unopposed. Why can't we have the scientific...

We are long past the point at which this question needs to be taken higher, and asking what the hell is with the people at the institutions that allow this charade to continue. This garbage is unnatural, it's propped up artificially. This is pretty much literally a "rock as a weather system"...

This is mostly a buzzword-filled marketing speech, not an academic study. The kind where there is a massive oversupply of something for which there is barely any natural demand, unable to accept this simple fact, and instead of back-pedalling tries to keep propping up artificial demand to...

I only meant resting and average heart rate, I have never had any test like TTT, NASA lean or otherwise, but I can definitely tell the difference when my resting and average heart rate back down to a more normal value, and it's about in the ranges seen in this study, although of course this is...

Honestly, this is very hard to tell apart from trolling. This nonsense has been argued for decades, it's been thoroughly debunked, and still it's going on and on. This is basically like getting away with an entire career having been hired to produce something that should take a month, and still...

Well, this could have been an email: sick people struggle to work. I have no idea what studies like this are supposed to add. Even when they stare the bloody obvious in the face they can't focus: What's the main barrier for people with Long Covid, or any other chronic illness, to return to...

I really can't follow the arguments about blinding having been broken because it makes a noticeable difference, they make no sense to me. That can't be how it works, because any effective treatment achieves this. In fact, the best case scenario for a clinical trial is when the improvements are...

In some way, though, I think it probably answers a very valid question in a recent thread about how will people even know if there is a scientific breakthrough paving the way to a solution. Probably a similar reason why fraudulent claims of psychobehavioral therapies improving outcomes get so...

Looks pretty good, although this is stuff millions of people have been saying for decades, and it's frankly ridiculously obvious. Objective tests are only useful if what they measure is related to the problem. No such tests exist for cognitive dysfunction like this, hence they are useless. But...

Could be relevant to anyone working with genomic data, ETH Zuric has recently published MetaGraph, a search engine for genomic data. It's described as a sort of Google for genomic data, making it easier to search and compare data across public genomic data sets.

https://metagraph.ethz.ch/ The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich has published a genomic search engine, described by Nature as a google for genomic data: Although MetaGraph is tagged as ‘Google for DNA’, Chikhi likens the tool to a search engine for YouTube, because the tasks...

The contrast between the incredible breakthroughs of biomedicine, thousands and thousands, continues to be comically out of proportion with the mediocrity produced under a biopsychosocial evidence-based medicine paradigm, which doesn't have a single one to date, not even a minor one. Can't even...

Wasn't this pretty much debunked recently? Medicine has believed for decades that the brain 'rewires' itself significantly, with examples such as phantom limbs and so on, only it turns out, no, they don't actually do that? Sure, connections change, but structure does not in the ways that were...

I disagree strongly on that. You are absolutely correct that in an ideal world we do not need that, that it is not just possible but reliable enough to diagnose using clinical criteria alone, and a test that does not add an understanding of the biology involved is far less useful. But we live...

I don't really know what to think of those "validation" studies but we've seen many obviously useless questionnaires being 'validated' this way over the years, and a process that validates invalid things doesn't strike me as especially valid in itself. Looks neat with all the buzzwords and...

I'm sad that this work still needs to be done, but happy to have someone so dedicated to helping us through this. Thank you for everything, David. Once more unto the breach.

After 5.5 years, this is pathetic, but definitely worth putting down in writing for how truly mediocre this is. Not nearly scathing enough, though. A kind of anatomy of a disaster where the disaster is simply not acknowledged and decades could pass with only those suffering the consequences ever...

What to know about RFK Jr.’s efforts to address long COVID (7:30 video) https://www.pbs.org/video/long-covid-1759605592/

I don't know how this does not constitute a blatant lie, but clearly this has simply become normal. Every single country rates a 0, whether they do nothing at all, or do wrong things. It's not possible to build the foundations to solve such a huge problem on the basis of lies. And this is why...