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  1. rvallee

    Somatic symptom disorder in patients with IBS or ulcerative colitis – Cross-sectional baseline findings from the SOMA.GUT-RCT 2025 Peters et al

    Literally the opposite. This ideology is mad. They don't even understand what they're doing and have long stopped bothering to pretend any of this makes any sense.
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    The association of fatigue and pain with cognitive test performance in patients with [ME/CFS], 2025, Oosterman et al

    Actually, no such studies are needed because there is only one plausible direction, it's not just obvious but almost ostentatiously so. There is something a bit funny with talking about "multidimensional" and then listing the two most common symptoms in all of medicine. All this talk of...
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    Earseeds, Acuseeds

    :facepalm: Everything you need to know about ‘ear seeding’ https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ear-seeding/ “Ear seeding” is a type of holistic auriculotherapy - a treatment that uses “ear seeds” to stimulate pressure points in the ear for ailments. Social...
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    Lesbian AIDS: An Illness of One’s Own?, 2025, Rogers

    The connection is not about the disease process, pathology or anything like it. It's the social dynamics and systemic discrimination that condemn people to a shorter, miserable life. On this they are quite similar, and they reflect completely opposite paths: what happens when necessary advocacy...
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    COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years, 2025, Shan et al.

    For years we heard this mindless bleating about how COVID is no worse on average than other common infections, entirely ignoring the fact that it being far more contagious than most others still makes the total harm greater, and instead of going for the obvious conclusion that, actually...
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    News from The Netherlands

    If a protocol causes someone to die of negligence, that protocol needs to be smashed into the ground with extreme prejudice. No such thing as a good protocol that allows that. Might as well go with the No country for old men quote for this, it's picture perfect:
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    Experiences of living with long COVID during childhood and adolescence: a qualitative study from the child’s perspective, 2025, Lillieberg et al

    Those are the professionals' themes. People who don't even understand the problem and just make stuff up, put words in the mouths of people who can and do speak for themselves but are systematically ignored. Screw your acceptance. This is unacceptable! Why do they accept unacceptable things...
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    Experiences of living with long COVID during childhood and adolescence: a qualitative study from the child’s perspective, 2025, Lillieberg et al

    It's a disabling illness. The only part of society that is expected to be knowledgeable is medicine. It is not, largely by a combination of choice and extreme stubbornness. And this study does no such thing, this was the problem from the start, and it hasn't improved one tiny bit. It's been 5.5...
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    Trial Report Preliminary evaluation of a cognitive rehabilitation intervention for post-COVID-19 cognitive impairment: A pilot [RCT], 2025, Becker et al

    Typo? This whole thing sure is futile. And I mean the whole thing, not just this yet-another-awful-study/propaganda. Where the hell is it that all these people get the idea that you can just whip up some random bullshit program for a purpose and it will... just work? Why not do this for...
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    Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

    That's really the important part. HE is not important. He is elevated by a system, by people who love his bullshit. No person can do any of this on their own, he is popular in the profession because of his awful work, not despite it. It is the system that is in failure for elevating people like...
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    News from Germany

    A clear sign of the regression medicine has suffered in recent decades with the creep of psychosomatic ideology. It's why despite actual progress made, we have pretty much fallen back. Why can't they apply this reasoning to psychosomatic stuff? It's even less plausible, even though we know for...
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    Taking Control of Your Functional Cognitive Symptoms: Workbook—A Novel Intervention 2025 Cotton et al

    This is an impressive word salad. Already cashed the check for fully-grown chickens without producing a single egg is what you do when you are selling a bunch of bullshit. Who decides that it's promising? The people who are selling the fraudulent nonsense? This paper appears to be in the...
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    Guardian piece on"Lyme"

    They completely dominate the issue, so I wouldn't say there's much desperation here. They will keep dominating everything until one day it all comes crashing down, but until now they are not the least bit desperate, in fact this is basically taunting, and it's not the first time they've done it...
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    Guardian piece on"Lyme"

    Totally made up. Zero evidence for any of this, they are describing their model, not reality or data.
  15. rvallee

    Preprint Individualized online exercise therapy aids recovery in pediatric long-COVID - Findings from an exploratory RCT, 2025, Goretzki

    And no actual control group, despite the title, so it simply looks like they selected patients with few problems who would have improved anyway, the description of how they were selected suggests just that: they were selected. Which we've already known for years, although their numbers are...
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    Effect of 8-week exercise-based rehabilitation on immune cell counts in Post-COVID syndrome following hospitalisation: a RCT, 2025, Bishop

    Like increasing power to a machine and noting how it increases power to the machine, without caring that it reduces the machine's ability to do work. "We increased the power input of the machine boss, and thus its power output." "Does it improve its performance?" "No, actually it decreases it...
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    Exercise during artificial gravity preserves cardiorespiratory fitness but not OI following 60 days of head-down bed rest (BRACE), 2025, Hedge et al

    So OI would be independent of de/conditioning, and obviously exercise would not fix OI. Which makes sense, they don't seem to overlap in any way unless someone badly wants them to and would accept the mere ability to conceive of it as plenty of evidence for it. I noticed in a recent thread on a...
  18. rvallee

    droracle.ai : What are the recommended treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome?

    This is a good example of something sold as AI that isn't actually AI, as despite the notice about not being reviewed by humans, the sources are clearly selected by humans with an editorial slant and plenty of bias. Looks about on par with "up-to-date". Also this is very confused and all over...
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