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Sten Helmfrid @StenHelmfrid
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The controversy about #MECFS is just an echo of the general reproducibility crisis in medicine and psychology. journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
We cannot agree on the nature of an illness, if we don’t agree on how to make science.
Why is systematic bias, outcome switching, argument from ignorance, and causality inferred from correlation accepted in the BPS paradigm?
There will be no consensus on #MECFS before we have consensus on how to make studies and how to build theories—the same for all paradigms.
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.@_NathalieWright's withering @Independent piece lays bear the gaps in how #mecfs is viewed on either side of the pond and the vested interests that have contributed to the disability and death of millions.

independent.co.uk/news/long_read…
It is one of if not the first high-profile pieces to tackle the institutional incentives and various forms of motivated reasoning underlying the "biopsychosocial" model.
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