That is definitely not even close to the consensus opinion of the field. there have been a number of attempts to try to show viruses as causing cfs, they have been discredited, whereas the pace study has not. [0]
post-aids patient advocacy, in clinical practice it has become incredibly unwise and unpopular to say that something is psychological in nature. even researchers who don't do anything in the clinic will still get death threats for suggesting otherwise.
Whenever a doctor doesn’t know the answer, it’s always psychological. It’s the easy way out.
People like you piss me off to no end so I’m gonna stop replying.
this is exactly what i mean when i say this stuff is politicized.
i disagree fundamentally with the epistemic theory of "trust people to know what is causing their illness, not doctors or researchers."
e: for evidence of what this particular strain of "patient advocacy" looks like, just peruse through this person's previous comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29398210), such as:
> Alzheimer isn’t a disease but a symptom of chronic viruses and bacteria. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6066504/
> People with Alzheimer have been cured after taking antibiotics.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3063394/
We don't know that viruses and bacteria are always the trigger for CFS. That's a reasonable hypothesis but remains unproven. There could be other root causes for some cases.
Long Covid _is_ CFS. Viruses and bacteria are always the trigger for CFS.