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A new research landscape emerges in America Things are changing in the US for ME/CFS research as four new collaboratives set up and get to work. In September last year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced $35 million of funding to establish three new ME/CFS research...

hi all, new blog post on the kafka pandemic. it is related to my 2016 open letter to francis collins. http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2018/04/nih-reply-to-my-open-letter-and-legal_24.html many nih employees will read it, so comments on the blog itself might be useful in getting across...

http://occupyme.net/2018/04/25/all-the-time-and-none-at-all/

A brief article on the results of an effort to improve the quality of biomedical and life sciences research by improving reporting by scientists of their methods. http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2018/04/reproducibility-and-recognition-one-year-later/

http://www.themedicalcareblog.com/female-hysteria-myth-disparities/ Also appeared originally here. Click on title to access.

Glad to see our @Simon M launching his new blog! :thumbup: If I want to know what to make of the latest big science claim in ME/CFS research, I always look to Simon and, incredibly for a non-bioscientist such as myself, can understand what he says because he writes so clearly. I also like that...

Read more here https://batemanhornecenter.org/dr-derya-unutmaz-explains-collaborative-research-center-crc-bhc/

Not directly about ME but perhaps of interest, considering the subject matter. https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/01/08/the_six_stages_of_a_failed_psychological_theory.html

http://occupyme.net/2018/01/06/expectations/

https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/blogs/mind-the-brain/the-pace-plos-one-data-will-not-be-released-and-the-article-won-t-be-retracted

I didn't know where to put this, but thought it of interest. From a Bristol Uni magazine in 2013 an article by Esther Crawley. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/university/migrated/documents/nonesuch6.pdf (pages 15/16 on pdf, 29/30 in mag) Her mission: "‘The aim of my fellowship is...

http://msmagazine.com/blog/2017/12/26/pain-and-prejudice/

https://autodidactauthor.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/which-heart-rate-monitor-for-me-cfs/ Bonus points obviously for saying nice things about S4ME @Clark Ellis ;)

https://paolomaccallini.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/severely-ill-big-data-study-a-first-glance/

http://anilvanderzee.com/my-promised-saline-iv-update-how-did-it-go/

http://voicesfromtheshadowsfilm.co.uk/2017/bristol-university-both-denies-and-supports-prof-crawley-in-her-career-enhancing-heroic-victim-narrative/

Reflecting, in part, on the impact of the news of the Rituximab null result. https://tipsforme.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/attacked-by-hope/

Moderator note: We've merged a number of threads to collect Naomi's blog posts into one thread. An article originally printed December 2016 but now updated with an audio version as well...

Can positivity cure any disease? http://anilvanderzee.com/can-positivity-cure-any-disease/