Preprint A Proposed Mechanism for ME/CFS Invoking Macrophage Fc-gamma-RI and Interferon Gamma, 2025, Edwards, Cambridge and Cliff

[rvallee]

I think Dr Conti may have rather missed the point of open peer review as used by Qeios.
It isn't about including the pet interests of reviewers!
I will make some replies tomorrow.

Approaches mic during question time: "Not so much a question, more of a comment..."

 

[DMissa]

May I quote you on this @DMissa when responding to Dr Conti? It matches my own interpretation of the study. I think you have also made the point that you did not find a similar effect in other cell types more recently.

I'll message you in specific terms so as not to clog the thread

 

[Nightsong]

I was rather curious that the papers recommended to be cited (!) by Dr Conti appeared in the same obscure journal by the same obscure Italian publisher, "Biolife", with which it appears that he is closely associated. A couple of searches led me to:

https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/08/04/the-journal-of-brouhaha/

https://web.archive.org/web/2025071.../08/05/gli-affari-del-prof-pio-conti-detto-c/

 

[Chandelier]

https://web.archive.org/web/2025071.../08/05/gli-affari-del-prof-pio-conti-detto-c/

Here‘s an english translation.

Biolife is a provincial scam compared to Scientific Reports, the least expensive and most profitable of the open access journals of the Nature group. … recycled the garbage produced by a Chinese paper factory about twenty times.

What a hellhole of a „scientific journal“:

The article in violation of every code of ethics and human rights produced by racist gynecologists and voyeurs of the State University of Milan and the San Raffaele hospital that I was talking about a year ago when Leonid had reported it to me is finally withdrawn (h/t E.K. Hornbeck).
It took seven years of protests during which the authors defended the ethics of their "Miss Endometriosis" contest.
Anyway, congratulations to Prof. Paolo Vercelliniof the University of Milan, the creator of the competition among his patients: he is even talked about in the Guardian.