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Presumably the real Michael Sharpe in Paul Garner's comment section, exhorting the virtues of free inquiry and objective appraisal of research data. The amount of hypocrisy on display by Garner, Sharpe, and Davey-Smith has actually rendered me speechless.

This lecture has been made publically avaliable by now. I'm unable to watch it myself, but I would be interested whether he brings up any new criticisms of the new NICE ME/CFS guidelines that had not yet been adressed in the rebuttal by Barry, Finlay et al. directed to White et al. Also...

Considering SJR's role at KCL's Institute of Psychiatry, and that GDS is Esther Crawley's mentor, recently retweeted Paul Garner's death threat diatribe, his involvement in the dispute about PACE as part of an editor for the Journal of Health Psychology (on the side of PACE), and his authorship...

Yeah, the newest landgrabbing attempt of FND zealots is to rebrand ME/CFS as a Functional Cognitive Disorder. There seems to be some sort of anchoring bias in play where, to these Neurologists, all organic causes of cognitive dysfunction ought to result in a phenotype comparable to Alzheimer's...

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>“panic attack without panic” Will this be the new go-to explanation to handwave symptoms of dysautonomia? As in: "POTS? Nah, you just experience silent panic attacks upon standing up." Reminds me of slow onset schizophrenia.

Not the first time Wyller engaged in this exact same sort of specious reasoning. It didn't make any sense back then, and it certainly doesn't now. But hey, if all of these case definitions, strict and loose alike, demarcate the exact same construct, does that mean that none of them respond to...

You're right of course, but it raises the question, why bother making up threats in the first place if they already had perfectly fine precedents? The professional relationship between McClure and Wessely lends some credence to the hypothesis that at least part of it was a singular coordinated...

Yeah, this was a quite a lot of words to say "Some conditions have similar symptoms as other conditions, and this somehow justifies rent-seeking FND specialists to demand expansion of MUPS services."

This is how I approach the subject with medics: The most "thorough" investigation into death threat allegations thus far, happened in the context of the PACE trial. During the QMUL FOI tribunal hearing, Trudie Chalder testified under oath that claims of death threats against researchers and...

These people really have a low bar for trauma, especially considering how prevalent Long COVID is in young adults, who mostly suffered from only mild infections, and hence where organ damages only play a negligible role as well. LC skeptics are quick to blame news for inducing a nocebo effect...

Hold up. May I ask someone to fill me in on the evidence base for CSS in ME? Pain doesn't seem to play a central role in most case definitions, and personally I have little problems with it - albeit that'd make some say that I do not fulfill the "myalgic" part of ME. The only citation provided...

I don't even get the point he's trying to make. The parachute analogy is generally used by overconfident doctors who think their pet hypotheses have as strong of a theoretical backing as classical mechanics do. Is he actually convinced both his working model of ME and his assumptions of how the...

From wikipedia: >Each week a guest, called a "castaway" during the programme, is asked to choose eight recordings (usually, but not always, music), a book and a luxury item that they would take if they were to be cast away on a desert island whilst discussing their lives and the reasons for...

>Where we were unable to find any evidence to the contrary, we have given guidance based on general occupational health return to work principles. Well, this probably made their job really simple, considering that we're operating in a very evidence-deprived environment, with all the LC...

German anti-lockdown activists are championing that Gaffney piece as their newest killer argument, mainly because "it's from Harvard!!1". Even if Gaffney was acting in the capacity of an official mouthpiece (he wasn't), know what else is "from Harvard Medical School"? The Osher Center for...

Time for a CBT+Modafinil vs. CBT only clinical trial, so we can guarantee to generate results here? I have a prescription for modafinil, but all it does for me, after absorption, is to increase heart rate for a couple of minutes, followed by triggering PEM without a latency period. I guess I...

>something that radically transformed long covid into a bona fide medical issue. I'm sure the long haulers are going to be overjoyed that all of their maladies suddenly became real with this One Weird Trick. We're all well aware of how easily impressed medics are by the power of language, but...

Sorry to disappoint you, but those are not translational errors, and the connotations in German remain precisely the same. He makes it sound like ME consists solely of neurocognitive-/psychiatric impairments. I can certainly appreciate that he is trying to raise awareness of the issue (albeit...

EDIT: Andy was ahead of me, lol Here's another dodgy LC piece, this one more sophisticated in its psychologization of LC, and gaining quite a lot of traction, with an even split of MDs and anti-lockdown activists. The author has also been known to espouse CBT/GET for ME in the past, so you know...