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That‘s why framing gambling as a ‚health issue‘ is so problematic - people are set up to become gamblers for corporate gain.

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‚Kindness, after all, is often weaponised these days - it can be used as a potent tool for silencing awkward & uncomfortable voices, particularly those speaking truth to power.‘ Important thread.

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‚(…) wasting people’s lives and potential but also damaging our own humanity by demonising those seeking safety. The UK was not just an original signatory of the UN Refugee Convention, it also helped draft it. I want us to be that country again and live up to those noble responsibilities.‘

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The ever-excellent Michiel Tack eviscerates the Miller et al BMJ editorial on ME/CFS in his e-letter, "The risk of blaming patients for their lack of recovery" which includes much more hard data than their weak, speculative editorial www.bmj.com/content/389/... #MEcfs #CFS #PwME 1/2

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1/3. 🔥Fireside Chat from The #LongCovid Clinic🔥 ‘Debunking the Myths of the Mind-Body Connection’ 🗓️ Wednesday 21 May 2025, 6pm UK time @binitakane.bsky.social & @helenoakleigh.bsky.social are joined by Psychotherapist & Clinical Mind Body Therapist Nadyne McKie. Link & further info. below ⬇️

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Just for documentation: This is anti ME/CFS extremism

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And #pw LongCovid please also help me with a brief anon survey. DWP’s response to my FOI request👇🏽implied that v few #pwLC access PIP DLA and many will lose this with the cuts. To act, I’d first like to understand what’s up… focussing on severe LC. 🙏🏽 forms.gle/YFoK9diPBBVf...

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1/ Two years later… and the damage is still there. A new study followed Long COVID patients 2 years after infection. The findings? Not subtle. They measured what the virus left behind. Let’s walk through it. 🧵 h/t @njenkinsphd.bsky.social

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Thought of the day: On ‚Wellness Grifters‘. #LongCovid #ME

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1/Almost 9 years ago I was standing in front of the TV in shock and disbelief over the Brexit vote. To be truthful, my anxiety was not because of the predicted economic consequences. It was because the vote showed me that campaigns based on prejudice work in this country. And it went downhill since.

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#ME

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#LongCovid #ME

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#nature

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My comment on Paul Garner‘s story below - it is awaiting moderation 🙄 #LongCovid #ME 1/2 www.ive-recovered.com/recovery-sto...

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‚What did harm my mental wellbeing (…) were the beliefs that others held about me and my illness: that I could get better, if only I reframed my own thoughts, or did more exercise, or exercised in a different way, or stopped focusing on my symptoms.‘ #LongCovid #ME

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This heavily ratioed (commissioned🤦‍♀️) opinion piece by the @bmj.com shows a core issue in medicine That is the connections/network you have to spread harmful, anti-consensus narrative that matters - not science, or the patient experience This should never have been published

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From @meresearchuk.bsky.social This week we’re raising awareness about the debilitating nature of ME/CFS. Post-exertional malaise (PEM), the hallmark feature of #MECFS, is the worsening of symptoms following minimal physical or mental exertion. Read more about the experience of PEM: bit.ly/expPEM2

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Quite disheartening to return from 10 days working with some of the most important and relevant #MECFS and #LongCOVID researchers in the world and to read this drivel being allowed through from @bmj_latest. Let's be unambiguous about this: BMJ has www.bmj.com/content/389/... 1/

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Honestly, Aseem Malhotra really is a compulsive liar. Turns out he is not, as he told the press, the MAHA's new chief medical advisor - but, rather, merely that of a lobby group targeting the MAHA (with quackery & anti-vax views, no doubt). The shameful inaction of the GMC still stands.

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🚨 Researchers alarmed at the high prevalence of #LongCovid in children. 💥Calling for increased research funding into this neglected area of investigation. Risk of ME and significant impact on quality of life also noted. Where is the urgency?! 🖇️ tinyurl.com/327yfeyu

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#LongCovid erschien vor fünf Jahren als Hashtag auf Social Media, lange bevor die WHO den Namen als offizielle Bezeichnung der Krankheit übernahm. Der Hashtag prägt bis heute das Leben vieler Betroffener. #LongCovid symbolisiert eine soziale Bewegung, eine heterogene Community,…

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A massive thank you to ActionForME and @longcovidsupport.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at today’s joint #LongCOVID and #ME All Party Parliament Group meeting, alongside Profs @daltmann.bsky.social @cgatist.bsky.social and David Strain.

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If the GMC had actually done its job properly & struck off Aseem Malhotra for his anti-vaccine scaremongering, we might not be in this situation. But here we are, as he carves a new career for himself in the States. Great work, GMC.

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Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal. And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.

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Prolonged alterations in red blood cell rheology following mild SARS-CoV-2 infection: Implications for microvascular health www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Screenshot is from the latest Science for ME weekly update #LongCovid #PASC

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Until the medics and the royal colleges peddling this unscientific, unproven and damaging rubbish are sidelined people with ME/CFS will remain at risk from the NHS There is no place for this in evidence based medicine

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Alastair Miller is lead author of this frustrating new piece in the BMJ: “Patients with severe ME/CFS need hope & expert multidisciplinary care” www.bmj.com/content/389/... It mentions recovery.Here’s my post showing the real evidence that he again ignores: www.s4me.info/threads/dr-a... #MEcfs #PwME

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It is sad to see @bmj.com platforming quack therapies in 2025 The mind-over-matter approach to #MECFS has been debunked for years, but a cadre of psych devotees in the UK persist in peddling evidence-free miracle cures Pure and utter pseudoscience #pwME #LongCovid @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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And what about reframing beliefs about four humors theory (blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile) or flat earth? Can this also help?

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