Online activists are silencing us, scientists say

Re:Online activists are silencing us, scientists say by hn_throwaway_99 on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:46AM (#19379141)

Yeah, I think the thing a lot of commenters are missing is that the medical field itself has a pretty bad history of telling people "it's all in your head" when there turned out to be specific, treatable biological causes. This is especially true for CFS, where for a long time it was seen not just to be psychosomatic, but actually "not really that bad."

As another example, stress was blamed as the main cause of ulcers for decades, when an H pylori infection turned out to be the primary culprit.

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Re:Online activists are silencing us, scientists say by internet_user on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @02:16PM (#19381693)

There is also HUGE amounts of money involved. Especially huge ramifications come to the fact that you could either have extra 10 billion dollars paid out to CFS claimants, or you could spend them on your pet projects....what would one with power to decide the outcome of that do...?

Only the good things, of course, because they are all angels.

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Re:Online activists are silencing us, scientists say by NikkiA on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:29AM (#19399990)

For most of the '00s and around '10-12, CFS wasn't even seen as a real thing, but purely imaginary.

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