Dr Norman Swan: ME/CFS is more psychosomatic than long-COVID

Simone said:
The audience wouldn’t have heard any of the nuances in what he said that we know were there. But they definitely heard him say that it’s a physical condition with multiple symptoms.
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This is key. Swan's statement is confusing and unclear to people who know the ins and outs. Those who don't will hear pretty much what Simone suggests, and that's certainly feels like it would not have happened three years ago when I was in Australia trying to talk to people at ABC.
 
Simone said:
Today’s podcast is up and we got the best outcome we could have hoped for... an on-air correction! It’s not perfect but, given this is Norman Swan we’re talking about, this is a really good shift. It starts at 7.30.
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/coronacast/when-might-we-see-more-cases-in-was-outbreak/13110754

Transcript for those who don’t want to or can’t listen:
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Not impressed at all. Still mostly BSing. Post-viral syndromes are not at all well defined, what the hell is he talking about? Either he has no idea about the history here or he is lying his ass off. Again.

All he's doing here is arguing that in his opinion ME has nothing to do with infections, that it's a completely different thing, whatever it is. Because he believes in whatever psychosomatic crap he wants to say but can't because he knows there's no evidence for it and here people demanded evidence. So all he did is demur and argue that ME is completely different and has nothing to do with infections because he needs that to be true for his beliefs.

Jerk. Still putting his personal beliefs above literally millions of lives.
 
He is genuinely oblivious that this is what he has dismissed as psychosomatic fatigue, uh? That he lumped all of this as somehow sub-symptoms of one symptom? Turns out that when people are exposed to information they may think differently. Uh, Who knew? Oh, wait, I know, the people who keep saying that about us. Funny thing about that, it's actually the other way around. Who knew? Definitely not those people who are supremely confident in their intuition as long as they can ignore contradictory evidence.

 
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