Assuming charities/advocacy organisations firmly believe that ME/CFS has an organic etiology, why didn't they just state something along the lines of :
Thanks for showing that the modest results of CBT and GET for some ME/CFS patients are smaller than those found with similar approaches with MS (plus many other diseases I've previously referenced) thereby confirming that neither faulty illness beliefs nor deconditioning play any major or specific role in ME/CFS.
Thanks for showing that the modest results of CBT and GET for some ME/CFS patients are smaller than those found with similar approaches with MS (plus many other diseases I've previously referenced) thereby confirming that neither faulty illness beliefs nor deconditioning play any major or specific role in ME/CFS.
*it was quite an eye-opener to see just how much rubbish research is out there across a range of illnesses: CFS is by no means unique.