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What is this thing about the U.S. being "the hottest country in the world"? It's preposterous. What the fuck does that even mean? Hottest on what metric? By whose assessment other than Trump's??

it's so hard to know from individual cases whether chronological events mean they're causative. It's possible it could be great for one person and awful for another. I think there might have been a question of short-term apparent benefit followed by long-term negative impact. But very hard to know.

This was originally just for German and Austrian research, right? Are they planning to expand further??

Oh my! I wrote about a dozen or more pieces for NYT over the XMRV situation back 15 years ago...

but at least normally those receiving an intervention after randomization are given information about the intervention. In this case, the participants are being told it's "standard" treatment.

Thanks! Sorry! I wish I had control over the portal and it accepted paypal and other forms of payment. I have repeatedly asked about this. Berkeley uses a vendor's platform and for some reason they don't do that. It's a pain in the butt.

Brian, they can't help themselves. It's such a deep-rooted instinct.

that's brilliant!!

They mention PEM in the discussion or limitations section, but it's irrelevant in the context of the trials in the meta-analysis, which are all over the place in defining their populations but did not generally seem to be identifying people with PEM.

Thanks for helping me do it!!!

I really enjoyed our two-step show that day!!! It happened just as Trump was starting to dismantle the research enterprise in the U.S.

well, thanks--I did what I could.

thanks. I'll check that out.

Insane!!! At least as a matter of science. Maybe that's how they do things in medical sociology???

maybe a few. but these people had thorough neurological exams. If they were given so-called tests for functional limb weakness, you'd think they would have been asked about and reported limb weakness, if they had it. So here, only 14 of the 100 with positive signs reported real-world limb weakness.

thanks, yeah--it took a few days to get access to it again. Now i can't seem to delete the crypto repostings