Should we be worried about monkeypox?
…also includes cowpox virus, variola virus (which causes smallpox), and vaccinia virus (the source of the modern smallpox vaccine). The name “monkeypox” resulted from the fact that the virus infects…
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Trial By Error: A Few Things of Interest I Read This Week
…that research initiatives targeting long Covid also include ME/CFS. The article further explores how the emergence of long Covid has impacted how the medical world views ME/CFS. Here’s an excerpt: …
Trial By Error: Correctives from Putrino & Iwasaki (and Others) to the Long-Covid-Is-Psychosomatic Claims
…profoundly biased accounts of the history and science of post-viral illness. Both journalists flogged the idea that millions of people around the world whose health and daily lives have been…
Trial By Error: An Upcoming “Biopsychosocial” Long Covid Conference in Finland
…graduate seminars at UC Berkeley–as a case study in awful, unethical research. And 100+ experts from around the world signed Virology Blog’s open letter to The Lancet about PACE’s “unacceptable…
Trial By Error: What the Hell is Going on with Cochrane’s Long-Delayed Re-Review of “Exercise Therapies”?
…published an amended version in October, 2019. For this version, Cochrane required Larun and her co-authors to water down their conclusions. “People who have exercise therapy probably have less fatigue…
Trial By Error: New JAMA Article Seeks to Revive the Zombie Case Definition for CFS from 1994
…illnesses variously called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), ME/CFS, CFS/ME, and other iterations. Very few investigators, if any, still use these ancient case definitions. Now the COFFI crew wants to revive and…