Cort, thankyou for your article. As always, it is informative and readable, a difficult task for such a complex topic.
I wish I could share your optimism. Even if better treatments come out of these studies, few of us will benefit. In the U.S., and it seems most other places as well, the overwhelming majority of patients can not receive new treatments until they are 'generally accepted'. But how can they become 'generally accepted' when the doctors are all waiting for their peers to adopt new treatments first?
As an example I'm thinking of Peckerman's 2003 study of impedance cardiography. As you well know, the study correlates cardiac output with disability. And yet, nearly ten years later, is anybody actually receiving this test, so that we can at least receive some disability money while wating for new treatments? How many years will we have to wait for the work of Pacific Fatigue Lab to be recognized by the 'medical community'? Twenty, thirty years? I can't wait that long. I know you can't either.