Category: Germany
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Springer Nature Removes Description of “Fatigue” Patients as “Combative” and “Reproachful”–UPDATED
UPDATE POSTED AN HOUR LATER: Shortly after posting this blog, I learned that Volker Köllner, the senior co-author of the chapter in question, had posted a few hours earlier on LinkedIn that the culprit responsible for the “falsified version” that had appeared was German psychiatrist Michael Linden. As “responsible editor” for the relevant project, Linden…
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Yet Another CBT Trial for Long Covid with Poor Results
The Journal of Psychosomatic Research has often served as a house organ of sorts for the “biopsychosocial” ideological brigades. That’s to be expected, given that folks like Per Fink, Michael Sharpe, and Jon Stone are all members of the journal’s editorial board. It should therefore not be surprising that the journal would publish crap like…
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German Draft Report on ME/CFS Raises Alarms for Promoting CBT and GET
The European ME Coalition (EMEC) has published a statement about and an analysis of a recently released report about ME/CFS from a Germany agency, the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG). With EMEC’s permission, I have re-posted the statement in full below. The original post can be found here. The in-depth analysis,…