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The difference is that CBT is quite unlikely to cause harm. Many CFS patients have experienced harm from the "graded exercise" that the PACE study also suggested.

It turns out that the study in question has been debunked. The analysis was fudged. The fudged results are still being used to guide treatment of sufferers.

You're missing an aspect here. If you walk on a broken foot out of necessity by whatever means, you do further damage and keep it from ever healing. You could even convert it to a compound fracture.

As it turns out, the study suggesting a psychological approach has been debumked by other researchers It seems the analysis was fudged. The researcher is being "bullied" the same way Wakefield was after his vaccine=autism paper was debunked and he kept doubling down on gis claim.

Even before that paper was specifically debunked, the course of treatment is recommended had been tried for a decade or two already and indeed had only made things worse for a number of people.

So, imagine you have a broken foot. For yars you were told there's nothing physically wronk, you could walk on it normally if you would just try. You were denied further disability and told to get back to work. Treatment plans are mad involving CBT to "allow you to deal with the normal sensations of walking on a perfectly good foot that you are somehow interpreting as extreme pain". When your foot swells to twice it's normal size, you're told that's caused by your psychosomatic pain. Then after 10 years some doctors started saying you know, it looks like there may be a physical aspect to this. Then some clown comes along with fudged data that claims the only real problem is that you haven't been practicing walking on your foot enough.

Given that, might you be tempted to make a few "mean tweets"?

I'm not personally invested in this, but I do feel empathy for people stuck in that situation. I also hate when people use fudged data to support strategies that have already been tried and tried again and again to no success.

You should REALLY do more background reading. The study you cite as evidence was well debunked by other psychologists and medical researchers. There is considerable evidence for the physiological theory. Other research suggests that the graduated exercise therapy in the debunked study is actively harmful to the patient. Here's some background.

The difference is that CFS HAS for a long time been treated as a psychological illness. It took years for anyone outside of the sufferers to even consider the possibility that it might not be psychological. Notably, people weren't getting better with a psychological approach. Sharpe's PACE study has been strongly rebutted already by other researchers.

In the case of back pain, the various forms of fusion surgery have been a complete failure. For years, surgical centers didn't let that stop them from promising miracles even as research demonstrated that the "abnormalities" on MRI claimed to be the source of the pain were equally likely to show up in pain free control subjects. However, there is still a strong belief that there is a physical basis for back pain, psychology (and anti-depressants) are considered a useful adjunct to physical therapy.

Here is some relevant background on CFS treatment and why patients are so vehemently against any claim that CBT and especially "graded exercise" is at all useful for CFS.

If he had cocaine in his system he was likely taking it with the opioids, which is a pretty deadly combo. Of course fentanyl is deadly itself. This article has an image showing what a lethal dose looks like so it's easy to see why you can so easily end your life accidentally.

I thought the president is already suffering from dementia.

This is interesting: https://www.statnews.com/2017/...

I saw an article that noted that Trump's use of language had deteriorated substantially compared to when he was younger.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/...

This is a good example of the problem: https://www.statnews.com/2018/...

Here's an interesting popular press article from this year talking about the slow turn on this theory. Sure people have had that on the list of possibilities but no proof. Now the pendulum is swinging that direction, but only recently.

https://www.statnews.com/2018/...

It really is turning THIS YEAR, because it's only in the last year that the most advanced and well studied Anti-alzheimer's drugs targeting plaque forming pathways failed. Thus old speculations are being reconsidered and there's a body of proof to support them.

Mylan has patent protection that lasts through 2025. So why is a generic version coming to market now?
Mylan to launch generic version of EpiPen, at half the cost

Yes, the 100 most-prescribed ones. And Pfizer has been raising the prices on ALL of their prescription drugs and average of 16% per year.

You haven't provided a citation so I found my own. In January and June of 2016 Pfizer also had two price increases, of an average of 10.4 and 8.8%, respectively. Seems to me that up until now they're just doing business as usual, though it's 3.2% less than what you claim for this year's increases. https://www.statnews.com/pharm...

They are not. You will find that unemployment was lower in 1929, just before the crash that led to the Great Depression.

My apologies, the job numbers are not the best in history, just the best in nearly century. Are you implying that Trump is going to crash the economy or that it would crash despite of him? It's not clear to me. Either way, I can't see how increasing steel and microchip production (among a number of other things) is hurting it because then at least there'd be infrastructure devaluate the dollar and export goods.

I didn't think the part about Putin required a response. He's already gotten everything he wants from Trump.

Which is?

You are clearly not knowledgeable when it comes to this subject. Livestock animals are given antibiotics regularly.

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> RACE ONLY MATTERS AS MUCH AS YOU LET IT MATTER.

Jim Crow
Jim Crow 2.0
Red-lining
Red-lining 2.0
Sundown Towns
Tuskegee Experiment
School Segregation
School Segregation 2.0
The War on Drugs specifically targeted blacks
Driving While Black
Walking While Black
Debtor's Prison 2.0

A Health and Human Services official who asked not to be named told STAT it was not accurate to say that CDC had been ordered not to use the seven words. Instead, he said, agency budget analysts were told that some words and phrasing might be more likely to win support for the CDC’s budget in the current Congress.

It goes on

Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said discussion of words that are banned or to be avoided sends a dangerous message to the agency. “There’s as much of a risk of self-censorship that comes out of this than actual direct censorship,” he told STAT. “This is the part that’s much more pernicious than any direct pronouncement.” “So of course the administration and its defenders are going to argue that this is only about what goes into the budget,” Jha noted. “But we know that the signal to the agency is much stronger than that. And it’s going to change behavior of people who work there. And that’s much more damaging than any direct censorship.”

Keep in mind the republicans are slashing money for research right and left in an orgy of giving public money back to the robber barons. Scientists and doctors interested in serving public health aren't stupid, they know a "guideline" from their funding agency isn't an order, but they do know it's how they win funding and keep their jobs.

To suggest this is fake news is to ignore the obvious reality: republicans are intentionally subordinating science to the wishes of their evangelical base.

I'd love to see the original real citation for this welll known 'fact'.

There are many. Finding the original would be a pointless endeavor though.

I wonder if it includes things like the military, a federal expense, defending the liberal coasts, and pouring federal money into the navy and Air Force bases that do so.

Yes, those have been factored into many charts, though some concentrate on the "welfare" aspect.

That's free money for California, where I live btw.

Nope. Quite expensive actually. Military spending isn't funded by a magic fairy. The days of sending forth conquering armies to gather tribute are long gone.

Blue States are actually on the hook, especially for the Right-wing war-mongering. And frankly, the GOP would gladly close every base in California, they HATE the state enough to spite the country. It has become their Sodom and Gomorroh, and it's barely 30 years since Reagan, who they never mention as being governor of California or an actor.

I also expect that eliminating the state deduction will force out of control liberal states to lower their taxes and stop flushing money down the toilet and useless social programs that only grow every year but don't help the people they're supposed to much less have an end goal.

Except you are assuming they are "out of control" and "flushing money down the toilet" on "useless social programs" that "don't help the people" which is bad enough, yet your method is even more deeply flawed since instead of offering a better alternative, you are just randomly attacking your opposition under a false pretense of noble motives.

Eliminating the mortgage deduction should force housing prices to come down, too. I'm ok with that, also.

Except it won't happen, since you aren't even addressing the reason for high housing prices. Here's a hint: The financiers don't want housing prices to come down, they LOVE the escalation.

The tax system has artificially altered major parts of our economy into a twisted mutated wreck. Time to restore,rose rather than fight over who gets to fuck over whom in a giant game of musical taxation chairs.

You're blaming taxation. The true causes are far more sinister and nefarious. You're being exploited and oppressed, but you don't know who has the whip.

PS, Newt Gingrich claimed he fixed that bit about paying people not to work, rural poor people do vote for Republicans, and yes, big companies like Wal-Mart and McDonalds do instruct their employees to get on food-stamps and other programs.

Also, the pill-pushers are big pharma, who the GOP loves. Just like Big Tobacco.

Mysteriously, however, funding schools, health programs, and improving people's lives by fixing their homes is forbidden as it is offensive. Except for the private religious schools indoctrinating the next generation of Wor$hipers at the Church of Christ Money-lender. That is a goal worth billions.

FTA: https://www.statnews.com/2017/...

Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and bioethics at University of Wisconsin Law School, said Watson should be subject to tighter regulation because of its role in treating patients. “As an ethical matter, and as a scientific matter, you should have to prove that there’s safety and efficacy before you can just go do this,” she said.

Norden dismissed the suggestion IBM should have been required to conduct a clinical trial before commercializing Watson, noting that many practices in medicine are widely accepted even though they aren’t supported by a randomized controlled trial.

“Has there ever been a randomized trial of parachutes for paratroopers?” Norden asked. “And the answer is, of course not, because there is a very strong intuitive value proposition. So I believe that bringing the best information to bear on medical decision making is a no-brainer.”



What an ass-hole. If the good doctor has a license to practice medicine, it should be revoked! Yes ass-hole they do clinical trails for medical treatments but thanks for the Faulty Comparison...

But overall, there are too many idiots on both sides that refuse to listen to the other sides ideas

Do not attempt to make a false equivalence here. The only reason it might seem that way is because one side has a massive persecution complex fed by an outrage machine dedicated to hyping that noise for profit and the other 'side' (described as the reality-based community by Karl Rove) treat such as cases as just another minor news event.

NYC: Linda Sarsour Faces Death Threats Ahead of Her CUNY Commencement Speech | Democracy Now!
Princeton professor who criticized Trump cancels events, saying she's received death threats
Shakespeare in the Park featured a Trump-like Julius Caesar, and right-wing media freaked out - Vox
Greg Gianforte Pleads Guilty To Assaulting A Journalist : The Two-Way : NPR
GOP pressured NPR into firing a journalist who reported on their bigotry / LGBTQ Nation
Lawmakers across the US are finding ways to turn protesting into a crime - Vox
Tom Price commends police who arrested journalist asking questions
GOP rep goes after activist by writing letter to employer | TheHill
Sinclair Requires TV Stations to Air Segments That Tilt to the Right - The New York Times
Oklahoma Governor Signs Anti-Protest Law Imposing Huge Fines on “Conspirator” Organizations
FDA Denies Ordering Employees to Switch Television Monitors to Fox News Channel
FCC to investigate, 'take appropriate action' on Colbert’s Trump rant | TheHill
Jury Convicts Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions During Senate Hearing | HuffPost
Fordham U. blocked formation of pro-Palestinian group: suit - NY Daily News

The "March for Science" is floundering as various grievance groups push their diversity agendas into the fore. The event's "official diversity policy" is now on its forth revision amid the resignations of organization committee members.

Some are concerned the event will — much like the vaunted Women's March — have conspicuously white optics. Others are concerned the March for Science is losing focus as sundry aggrieved interests try to attach themselves to the imprimatur of "science." In all likelihood they're both right.

It would be worth paying more for meat if it meant less contribution to antibiotic resistant pathogens. I don't know how these cultured meats are going to be kept sanitary in mass production, I suppose it's possible that some unethical meat growing labs could use a lot of medicinally important antibiotics and cause the same problems. But I suspect there are more options for sterilization once you don't have to grow a whole animal.

There are about a dozen companies using licenses from one or the other to develop products. Including Editas which was oddly founded by Doudna of UC Berkley AND Zhang of the Broad institute

Not sure there's any CRISPR products for sale yet because research doesn't move as fast as the legal system does, but it's definitely not patent trolling. Almost every molecular biology lab is starting to use crispr in some capacity, So there should be applications coming out eventually.

There are supposedly some edited dogs in china I guess?

In Trump's case he's already getting rid of medicine for the terminally ill who don't have insurance...

Of course he is!

Apparently it's perfectly safe...so vaping companies say AND there's been some studies to say that vaping is so much better for you than smoking...

You should believe vaping is safe...except if you suspect that the lack of decades of data makes it difficult to determine AND if you suspect studies are influenced, falsified, wrong or completely malicious.

Because respectable bodies of research were never going to lie for money and they never do:

This -> https://www.statnews.com/2016/...

The eagle-eyed reader will notice this is a research about sugar. Nothing to do with smoking or vaping...after all another supposedly respectable body already said vaping is 95% healthier. Public Health England, a government affiliated body no less. -> https://www.theguardian.com/so...

Some searching leads to this 113 page piece of "research" that was no carried out by the UK government of course but rather an "independent researcher" which actually are:
McNeill A, Brose LS, Calder R, Hitchman SC
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology &
Neuroscience,
National Addiction Centre,

Hajek P, McRobbie H (Chapters 9 and 10)
Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine

A link deeper and you find the actual full paper -> https://www.gov.uk/government/...

This is some people's minds cements the belief that vaping is 95% safer than smoking cigarettes. the author of that "study" which is more like a search on Pubmed gave two key factors for this 95% figure:

That there is less than 5% known carcinogens in vaping (assuming your sucking on the same "juice" and that there is currently no associated health risk.

Read it if you like -> https://www.gov.uk/government/...

So really this thought that vaping is so much healthier has some good concepts behind it what it lacks is proof and data. All we found is that we have no data to say it's unhealthy. If it causes genetic damage or increased mutation that is only apparent many years later we have no clue.

Just think what the tobacco industry is worth. What the vaping industry will be worth...can you honestly beliee they will not pub their weight into anything much like the sugar lobby once did? -in fact we already know the tobacco industry has covered up decades of research and used their expertise to counter anything that made them look bad.

95% healthier...once this flawed concept is in the public's mind it takes another fucking decade to tell them otherwise. Once upon a time Kent cigarettes had asbestos filters that increased cancer rates many times over compared to regular smoking. They were the product of "research" and were thought to be "healthy"...remember that.

Just continue vaping. It's safe. Anything coming out of a miniaturized "fog machine" is so much better for you. Honest.

As an added bonus it's cheaper than your previous addiction platform too!

What the fuck are you talking about. It's a fucking procedure used in genetic research. It's done in lab animals. Ever hear of knock out mice. An independent bioethics committee even recommended the FDA should approve clinical trials for MRT https://www.statnews.com/2016/...

Who knew tech people were fucking morons...