From Jaime Seltzer over on Bluesky: Please call for this one, guys, this is a horrific turn. There is something at the core of these folks that cannot accept patient narrative as a source of real data. They revert to default tropes about exercise rather than listening, or reading up-to-date […]
Earlier this year, I wrote about a draft academic paper that had attempted to condemn the new NICE guideline for ME/CFS. As regular readers might recall, the paper had claimed that NICE was guilty of “eight major errors” in its guideline reviewing processes. In my blog post I noted that […]
Colleagues and I have responded to a paper in Der Nervenarzt, the leading German neurology journal, pointing out various reasons why its “overview” of evidence-based approaches to ME/CFS treatment lacked, well, evidence. Our critique can be read in full in English via the following Tweet (kudos to @AnilvanderZee): In summary, […]
Earlier this month, on World ME Awareness Day, I spoke at the Hope 4 ME & Fibro NI conference in Belfast. The event was hosted in the Stormont Parliament Buildings by Alliance Party MLA, Paula Bradshaw. The title of my lecture was Getting it Right: Addressing Myths about the 2021 […]
David Tuller has been conducting a series of interviews on YouTube relating to science, medicine, and medical controversies relating to ME/CFS and Long Covid. I was pleased to discuss with him my recently published book and, for good measure, the issue of dualism as it affects the psychologising of illness. […]
Here is what I will be doing today: Translation: Welcome: ME Seminar On International Women’s Day, we draw attention to a disease which affects women to a high extent. Almost 80% of those who fall ill with this disease are women. We are talking about ME which is a serious, […]
