The one with the goofy hair has to be Wessely. So White's the bald one with no eyes?
Which one's White then?
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The one with the goofy hair has to be Wessely. So White's the bald one with no eyes?
Which one's White then?
These guys still think it is all about the sales pitch, not the product itself.
To be fair, so would that picture of The Muppets.That would make an excellent letter to a medical journal, @justy.
So do I still have MUS, according to White et al?
Yes, that's how it seems to work. Any symptoms of any illness that do not correlate with a known biological marker "belong" to the psychoquacks. And they won't give them up easily. This includes fatigue when it occurs in serious illnesses like MS and lupus, because the fatigue isn't predicted by any of the standard disease markers.They would probably argue that you do indeed have MUS because the identified abnormalities are not sufficient to explain your level of disability. I've seen a case report of a woman that died from a rapidly progressing brain disease and the psychiatrists still argued that they had been right in diagnosing psychosomatic disorder, using just this "logic".
Looking forward to "CFS patients are still nuts - Life Beyond Rituximab"You would think that finding an actual bacterial cause would stop the psychonutters dead in their tracks... but no! Now they say that the stress causes the bacteria to multiply!!!!!!
see: Levenstein, S. (1998). Stress and peptic ulcer: life beyond Helicobacter. BMJ: British Medical Journal (no less!)
You would think that finding an actual bacterial cause would stop the psychonutters dead in their tracks... but no! Now they say that the stress causes the bacteria to multiply!!!!!!
see: Levenstein, S. (1998). Stress and peptic ulcer: life beyond Helicobacter. BMJ: British Medical Journal (no less!)
You got it, @worldbackwards, that's exactly what I predict will happen.Looking forward to "CFS patients are still nuts - Life Beyond Rituximab"
The God explanation never dies. It just repositions itself as he ultimate cause of whatever the latest scientifically defined explanation is.
On the other hand the Rituximab results could be so impressive that CFS suddenly becomes a hot area of research. Psychobabblers will suddenly have to deal with criticism from other researchers and doctors. Peer review might actually start working. Things could change very quickly and radically.
When Peter White certainly has one.Conflicts of interest
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Actually they knew this in the 19th century. It took 108 years before Barry Marshal and his colleague ( I keep forgetting his name) proved it to a modern standard. In the meantime the science had to fight psychoquackery, and was ignored and buried. To be fair though the nineteenth century finding was in German, and they didn't fully characterize the bacteria. I wrote a blog on this.Took a long time for us to work this out, there was so much biopsychosocial bullshit clouding the picture for so long.