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The literature published over the last decade or so gives a highly biased picture, because people keep threatening to kill psychiatrists who research CFS. Under

The literature published over the last decade or so gives a highly biased picture, because people keep threatening to kill psychiatrists who research CFS. Understandably, most psychiatrists have abandoned the field for their own safety. Lots of people are researching biomedical factors, but nobody has identified a plausible biomedical etiology. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d3780 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d3780

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erentz 8y ago
So your evidence that the leading hypothesis is mental illness is the debunked PACE trial which caused harm to a lot of patients in the form of contraindicated exercise and denial of benefits, among the emotional harm it created. And then to go on to claim because there's lack of research into psychological factors that the absence of that research supports it being the leading hypothesis. Oh, and also it's the fault of these mean sick patients that this is the case. https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/21/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-pace-trial/ https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/21/chronic-fatigue-syndrome... https://me-pedia.org/wiki/PACE_trial https://me-pedia.org/wiki/PACE_trial
Malcx 8y ago
>people keep threatening to kill psychiatrists No they don't. Several psychologists have made claims of harassment, all of which have been shown to be specious at best. In the UK at least the link between psychology and The Science Media Center has massively helped push the, dare I say it "fake news" of threats.
rufus85 8y ago
There is no dangerous CFS militant movement that threatens to kill psychiatrists. There are just some psychiatrists who can't handle criticism and get their journalist friends to write these smear articles in the hopes it will silence their critics. https://me-pedia.org/wiki/PACE_trial#Allegations_of_harassment.2C_death_threats_and_smear_campaign https://me-pedia.org/wiki/PACE_trial#Allegations_of_harassme...

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erentz 8y ago

So your evidence that the leading hypothesis is mental illness is the debunked PACE trial which caused harm to a lot of patients in the form of contraindicated exercise and denial of benefits, among the emotional harm it created. And then to go on to claim because there's lack of research into psychological factors that the absence of that research supports it being the leading hypothesis. Oh, and also it's the fault of these mean sick patients that this is the case. https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/21/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-pace-trial/ https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/21/chronic-fatigue-syndrome... https://me-pedia.org/wiki/PACE_trial https://me-pedia.org/wiki/PACE_trial

Malcx 8y ago

>people keep threatening to kill psychiatrists No they don't. Several psychologists have made claims of harassment, all of which have been shown to be specious at best. In the UK at least the link between psychology and The Science Media Center has massively helped push the, dare I say it "fake news" of threats.

rufus85 8y ago

There is no dangerous CFS militant movement that threatens to kill psychiatrists. There are just some psychiatrists who can't handle criticism and get their journalist friends to write these smear articles in the hopes it will silence their critics. https://me-pedia.org/wiki/PACE_trial#Allegations_of_harassment.2C_death_threats_and_smear_campaign https://me-pedia.org/wiki/PACE_trial#Allegations_of_harassme...