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Merged thread A short article on peer review ‘Nothing like what the public think it is’: Peter Ridd on the truth about climate change and ‘peer review’ Edit : The article doesn't actually mention climate change, it only discusses peer review...

An interesting report on how coronavirus spread through a hospital in South Africa from the first sufferer who went through their doors. Study tells ‘remarkable story’ about COVID-19’s deadly rampage through a South African hospital And the report the above article was based on. Report into a...

Dry nose may occur in Sjogren's Disease. Other possible symptoms in Sjogren's are dry skin, dry mouth, dry eyes and dry ears. Arthritis can occur because of dry joints. I'm sure there are other symptoms, but the ones I've mentioned are all I can remember off the top of my head. Edit : There is...

Just out of interest I clicked on each name in the first quote box in post #1. The first three names only returned the paper shown in post #1. The fourth name returned 8545 results. I'm not sure what this is telling me!

Where? All I can see is a very short abstract and nothing else.

I do envy the people who write this garbage. They've clearly never experienced severe pain that goes on and on and on, that nobody believes in and for which no treatment is forthcoming. It must be nice to be in that situation.

Fixed it for the authors.

I've been told by some doctors that my self-treatment of various problems with vitamins and minerals is "alternative medicine" and therefore what I'm doing is nonsense designed to drain the contents of my wallet. This encompasses things like : 1) Wanting to keep my B12 level high because I...

From the quote in post #68 : "The cohort was predominantly female (85%)" I thought that men were the worst sufferers of severe Covid-19? A community cohort study was conducted with adults aged ≥18 years recruited through a mainstream and social media campaign There must have been something...

Homeopaths almost certainly do less damage than IAPT, CBT and blaming everything on MUS, so I'd be happier with the homeopaths.

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Reference for the above : Nimnuan C, Hotopf M, Wessely S. Medically unexplained symptoms: an epidemiological study in seven specialities. J Psychosom Res 2001;51:361–7. Is this reference the same one that @dave30th has debunked on several occasions?

This is why I don't go and see doctors unless my problem is actually visible. But, as you've found too, from experience I know that having a visible problem is no guarantee of getting appropriately treated or being treated with kindness or politeness.

I've just been reading Dr Kendrick's latest blog : https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/05/16/food-bank-show-next-episode/ and as usual it is well worth reading. I also liked this comment on the blog by someone called Shaun Clark. It made me think of SW :

Describing people as "fearful" in this context comes across as being derogatory. What in most people would be described as prudence or common sense under the circumstances is being given a derogatory label by SW and I can only assume that this is deliberate.

Merged thread https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/weird-hell-professor-advent-calendar-covid-19-symptoms-paul-garner

I think Mary Shelley might be within her rights to claim a breach of copyright, if copyright lasted for 202 years.

You could have this : https://www.aop.org.uk/advice-and-support/for-patients/eye-conditions/meibomian-gland-dysfunction Two people in my family have had very visible lumps developing on the underside of their upper eyelids. They were caused by blocked meibomian glands and both of them had...

That's rather a strange way of testing something. First do a small study where everyone knows what the subjects are taking, including the subjects themselves. Then follow this with a proper RCT. Why not just combine the two pools of subjects and do a larger RCT?

My reaction to that was "Aww, diddums"