Hornig/Lipkin cytokine study: Foreign language coverage

[Cheshire]

A few more articles from France, whose coverage has been quite important. But of the 3 main newspapers (Le Figaro, conservative, Le Monde and Libération (left wing), only Le Figaro wrote something).
(Le Parisien, altough important, is not a national newspaper; it's the local newspaper of Paris and suburbs.)

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/201...ie-biologique-et-non-psychologique-etude.html

These two ones have a slight journalist approach, and interviewed French "experts"

http://www.pourquoidocteur.fr/Fatigue-chronique---une-origine-biologique--9943.html
http://sante.lefigaro.fr/actualite/2015/03/05/23474-difficile-diagnostic-fatigue-chronique

An extract of the later (google translate)
Doctor in internal medicine Laurent Chiche, is skeptical about the value of this work. " The differences between patients may be due to chance , and their statistics are not very strong. If there actually are differences, they must be confirmed by another team, another sample of patients. " Professor Jean- Dominique De Korwin , scientific advisor to the French Association of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome , judge these interesting research, but is skeptical about the proposed treatment , "Some of the cited molecules are already used for other conditions, without effect on fatigue. The research must continue: we must now follow patients over several years to see how the disease actually develops after three year"


And from Canada (Québec)

http://www.psychomedia.qc.ca/syndro...-02-11/nouveaux-criteres-diagnostiques-et-nom
http://www.lapresse.ca/vivre/sante/...eau-nom-reclame-pour-la-fatigue-chronique.php

 

[Aurator]

I see PWME in France, just as in the rest of the world, have to contend with ME-deniers.
At the bottom of the LaDepeche article someone called "abricot" has quoted the words "le syndrome de la maladie (sic) chronique - connu sous le nom d'encéphalomyélite" and added the rejoinder: "Surtout beaucoup plus connu sous le nom de paresse ..."
I know of a young Belgian lady who has ME and seldom leaves her house, not always because of her condition but because a significant number of people in the small town where she lives have made no secret of their belief that she is not ill but just a liar who is work-shy.

 

[Cheshire]

Well, scorn, stupidity and nastiness have no frontiers! It's worldwide spread...