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“Post-Covid syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, and the recurring pseudoscience of mass hysteria” (July 27) by Prof Brian Hughes
https://thesciencebit.net/2020/07/27/post-covid-syndrome-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-and-the-recurring-pseudoscience-of-mass-hysteria
#longhaulers #LongCovid #COVIDー19 #COVID #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
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“Post-Covid syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, and the recurring pseudoscience of mass hysteria” (July 27) by Prof Brian Hughes
https://thesciencebit.net/2020/07/27/post-covid-syndrome-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-and-the-recurring-pseudoscience-of-mass-hysteria
#longhaulers #LongCovid #COVIDー19 #COVID #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
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"Most disturbingly, because of the psycho-hegemony, patients get funnelled toward tenuous behavioural therapies that produce little or no curative effects. In many (if not most) cases, the official treatments serve only to worsen their illnesses."
#MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE
"Most disturbingly, because of the psycho-hegemony, patients get funnelled toward tenuous behavioural therapies that produce little or no curative effects. In many (if not most) cases, the official treatments serve only to worsen their illnesses."
#MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE
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"The tradition of ME pseudoscience (one might even say “psychobabble”) has a very long history ... current claims about mass psychogenic COVID-19 coincide almost exactly with the 65th anniversary of the now infamous outbreak of ME that occurred at Royal Free Hospital in 1955"
"The tradition of ME pseudoscience (one might even say “psychobabble”) has a very long history ... current claims about mass psychogenic COVID-19 coincide almost exactly with the 65th anniversary of the now infamous outbreak of ME that occurred at Royal Free Hospital in 1955"
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“When psychologists claim ME is “caused by” certain types of attitude or thought process, their interpretation is entirely speculative; when they propose that unexpected symptoms of COVID-19 are likely to be “caused by” hysteria,they're operating way [the available evidence]”
“When psychologists claim ME is “caused by” certain types of attitude or thought process, their interpretation is entirely speculative; when they propose that unexpected symptoms of COVID-19 are likely to be “caused by” hysteria,they're operating way [the available evidence]”
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“People with ME have been waiting decades for their dignity. It is a tantalising but poignant reality that COVID-19, in creating a cohort of post-viral long-haulers, may now be the event that finally brings attention to their plight ... (contd.)”
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
“People with ME have been waiting decades for their dignity. It is a tantalising but poignant reality that COVID-19, in creating a cohort of post-viral long-haulers, may now be the event that finally brings attention to their plight ... (contd.)”
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
