How do the CMRC, that keep repeating "ME is an organic disease", "we do biomedical research", justify that one of their prominent member use such lousy criteria that don't mean anything? There's a point when difficult compromise becomes impossible. For me, the breaking point has been reached when she published her "epidemiologic" study, whose methodology seems to come from some kind of "scientific study for the dumb". Her work is so bad, I really don't understand.
Even from a psychiatric point of view, this has no meaning. I've never seen criteria so vague in the DSM, fatigue, 3 months.
And the CBT they use is a caricature of psychotherapy. Chalder theory is simplistic yet, but transferred to a computer program, with rare interactions with real therapist?
This study is nothing but a spit in the face of patients.
Edit: grammar question: is "the CMRC" singular or plural? I've heard several times "the police are", in French, it's singular, "la police est", so a bit confusing for me...