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‘You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal | George Monbiot | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-treatments-socia…

“ME/CFS, like long Covid, hits women harder, so, the thinking goes, it must be all in the mind.”
(The article does not claim that this is true, but strongly argues against this attitude)
‘You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal | George Monbiot

"Mental wellbeing has plummeted in the UK further than in any comparable nation. How was this not headline news?" -- George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/artic…

"#MECFS saps sufferers of energy and basic physical and cognitive functions.
…the fact that there is neither a diagnostic test nor a validated treatment, places a special duty of rigour on doctors and researchers. But patient care has been compromised, and useful research inhibited, by the conviction of practitioners that ME/CFS is

“ME/CFS, like long Covid, hits women harder, so, the thinking goes, it must be all in the mind.”
(The article does not claim that this is true, but strongly argues against this attitude)
‘You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal | George Monbiot

"A vast amount of money has flushed through this country. Science has advanced by leaps and bounds; health and labour-saving technologies have greatly improved; we know exactly how to build good homes, treat sewage and improve democracy.
Instead (literally, in the case of our rivers) almost everything has gone to shit" -- George Monbiot

A most interesting article.
"Why are so many conspiracy fantasists uninterested in real conspiracies?"
George Monbiot faces his local conspiracy theorist https://www.

Monbiot flagging up ME/CFS myths
George Monbiot explains the bad science around Graded Exercise Therapy etc.
Good to see awareness of this atrocity becoming more mainstream.
"Despite an overwhelming weight of evidence, the old believers, including Sharpe and Wessely, have continued to try to justify their model ... This is not how science should work."
#MECFS #science #medicine #GeorgeMonbiot #SimonWessely #MichaelSharpe

”It doesn’t have to be like this. We can control our own behaviour, and envision and build better forms of organisation. Through deliberative, participatory democracy, both in politics and in the workplace, we can create systems that work for everyone. There is no natural law that states that playground bullies should continue exacting tribute for the rest of their lives.”

From the playground to politics, it's the bullies who rule. But it doesn't have to be this way (George Monbiot/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/30/playground-politics-bullies-competition
http://www.memeorandum.com/240330/p26#a240330p26

Wow, this is a foul wind that's blowing through Aotearoa: https://thestandard.org.nz/atlas-smirked/

#ME/CFS
The headline is wrong. It should read:
"The outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is an international scandal"
https://www.theguar…

"Progressive tragedies"
A revolution in the way Britain does politics has begun in Devon. Tory MPs should be afraid https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/20/revolution-britain-pol…

The saying 'Brexit, the gift that keeps giving' feels very appropriate to a Dutch person, particularly in this case. One of the meanings of 'gift' is 'poison' in Dutch.
Britain is becoming a toxic chemical dumping ground – yet another benefit of Brexit