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Manitoba government employee sues province, Canada Life over denial of long-term disability Plaintiff was diagnosed with long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome: lawsuit...

I just can't see much overlap with actual child abuse. Child abuse is not faking a child's illness, it's abusing them. It's domestic violence, it's abject behavior. It does not manifest itself as faking an illness other than in very rare exceptions, and even then the validity of the concept is...

Can't really see how it should be framed any other way. Palliative care is not expected to produce meaningful benefits, reducing suffering is a benefit in itself. If only reducing suffering was perceived as a benefit in itself by those with the power to do it, but they clearly only see us...

Nah. No one is capable of this much influence on their own. He's popular because he's promoting a perspective that is so popular in itself it doesn't need to be sold. It's systems that do things like this, and here it's plainly stated as being the position of the government, which simply hires...

It obviously does no such thing, but never let facts get in the way of a popular narrative. The idea of rehabilitation has become an even more magical concept than the insulting "what, you want a magical pill?" they like to throw at us. It's them who want the damn magical pill that frees them of...

Ugh. Cringeworthy and weak. Like a bunch of stuck-up adults trying to understand kids' slang these days, and unable to tell when they are given fake answers. The children are totally being converted to satanism by listening to rock albums backwards at slow speed. :rolleyes: Yes, imagine that...

I also don't think that other alternative medicine practitioners are in a conspiracy, they're also just wrong. Beliefs are weird like that, they can make even otherwise painfully critical people swallow total bunk. Normally they use science to know better. Here instead they use evidence-based...

Yeah, it's a lot like news, you can only get a good picture of what's going on by reading multiple sources over a long enough timeline. Very few people have the time and patience for that, and it's really depressing anyway. This forum is about the only reliably useful place for this, but it...

Some kind of spectrum, uh? Nah, that will never catch on.

Oh they understand it very well. They're just lying about it, it's even part of the lie to lie about lying about it. Power without responsibility leads to stuff like this all the time. Humans don't do the right thing just for the sake of it or learn lessons from mistakes, we learn when there are...

So far I haven't found any use for it. It's doubtful that will happen until AIs get good enough to replace physicians. Even though right now the big LLMs are far better at ME/CFS and chronic illness than 99.999% of physicians, mainly because they can be persuaded by facts, and care about being...

Those are useless anyway, the impairment and impact of brain fog almost perfectly overlap with depression questionnaires. Not depression itself, just the questionnaires. Everything depends on how the questions are interpreted by the patients. Same reason why comparing to such cohorts is...

Yup. And we all know what this means: The beatings will continue until morale appears to improve on questionnaires where lack improvement is punished by more beatings. Medicine has a perfect record of betrayal so far, zero reason to assume even the pretense of good faith. They are doing...

This exact treatment approach has been used for 5 years on hundreds of thousands of people. By now billions have been wasted directly, and trillions indirectly, based entirely on wishful thinking, and this is still basically the best they have: may be, could be, in some, possibly. Meanwhile...

They have nothing because they didn't even try. Zero effort doesn't produce results, but it doesn't bother anyone in a position to do anything. Basically like getting a 0 grade on an open book exam. But really it's hard to put in context how utterly pathetic the performance of the medical...

Dunno if this will veer into politics, but to me this is closer to Alex Jones, taunting the victims of a horrible tragedy while denying it even happened as it did. A sign of a deeply disturbed moral compass, and extremely creepy. The kind of thing that will shock consciences years from now, but...

Given that the psychiatric disorders data set itself contains false data from people with all sorts of other illnesses, something that has been known for years and is easy to find out, this makes for a very different story than they are describing. They seem to have tried very hard to make...

The Lancet publishing this, with zero mention of ME/CFS and the fact that thousands have warned about this, with copious data, to no effect has the same impact on me as people who sell weapons to two sides of a war because it's good for business. And I think the author actually is on the right...

Given everything, the muted language suggests nothing will change. It has a completely passive voice that clearly sees little wrong with the disastrous state of things, the same condescending approach where they intend to teach us why it is us who are wrong, because they're always right about...