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Look at slide 5 of Myhill's talk, and tell me why she should be allowed to claim (as if with total conviction and authority) that ME = CFS + Inflammation. Just a nonsensical equation.
Yet the issue is that people are buying products and services from her based on her assertions - that is a different situation to researchers forming a theory and testing it to see if they are right or not.She would only be doing what everyone else has done and created definitions to suit her own views. She probably has as much right to do that as anyone else. There is no obligation to agree with her
Yet the issue is that people are buying products and services from her based on her assertions - that is a different situation to researchers forming a theory and testing it to see if they are right or not.
I'm confused. Are you arguing for us to just accept the situation on the basis that everyone is doing it?The NHS is buying quack therapies from quack experts based on the definitions they all use. It seems to be, as always, a matter of caveat emptor
I'm confused. Are you arguing for us to just accept the situation on the basis that everyone is doing it?
I had a quick look at the slides from Klinghart's talk. Loads of different bits of research from all over the place, then a protocol based on nutritional supplements, herbs, homeopathy and removing mercury fillings etc etc.
For those of us who have been around for a few decades, we can actually identify which years this "breaking news" originated fromI think we can now refer to this as retro-quack-medicine.
Isn't it amazing how they are able to figure all this out?
But somehow we can't find these microbes.
Yes, it's actually seriously depressing and really alarming. Do these folks not follow the research? And it makes me feel that whatever progress has been made has not really floated up to the surface for some reason. This is truly worrisome.It's becoming depressing. Recently there have been a few incidences of people making reference to something that could make a significant difference. Then I realize, nope done that, have the t-shirt, didn't work as originally advertised many years ago.
It feels like a merry go 'round, or like one of those sushi bars where people can just help themselves. Except it's not literally food they're helping themselves to, it's the content of our thin wallets being raided as the predators gather round and eye us speculatively.
The craftier ones lurk where the conveyor comes out of the kitchen, plucking the freshest, juiciest newbies....
Well, these folks interpret the research their own way, pick and choose whatever makes sense to them and their business. Their goal, making money and gaining influence to gain more money.Do these folks not follow the research?