Just saw your post Shane.
"Sudden onset" just seems arbitrary to me. This particular criteria does not seem relevant to keeping "the cohort clean." It's based on patient report and not on any measurable laboratory findings.
Why not begin to use criteria like these that have been "reported by researchers from all around the world," that Dr. Klimas has "reported over and over"? And that "most everybody who has looked at this has reproduced those particular findings"? Why not these types of criteria?
And we're not talking about a single study, or several studies, but a BioBank from where
all studies will get their samples. I think the cohort would be better defined by Peterson's "certain things stick out" criteria.
My continuing difficulty with this has nothing to do with angst (who me, feel left out?
), but with the quality of the data that will be produced by these studies. I think they're starting off on the wrong foot.
Just my opinion. And (for now) I'm sticking to it. :innocent1:
If I'm mistaken, I will learn and sing everybody this song.