Continued thread
For examples of scientific harm done to ME/CFS patients see this video by @brokenbattery
It lists many issues, including the CDC renaming the illness in 1988 and the PACE trial, a flawed research study that has not yet been retracted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiwX9Y0NbiQ
"George Monbiot describes the treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as 'the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century' …'"
Transcript:
https://medium.com/@abrokenbattery/me-cfs-scandal-explainer-eb4c1bfb7464#0cda
![Figure 1. Distribution of SF-36 physical function scores from the subsample of Bowling et al’s. [18]
British community participants who were aged 18–59 and without long-term illness or disability (as
calculated from the published data [17]). Also presented for comparison are: (a) the recovery criteria
specified in the original protocol [12]; (b) the revised criteria used in the recovery paper [3] and (c)
mean scores for several chronic illness populations.](https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/471/824/004/781/297/original/b214838aecd5015a.png "Figure 1. Distribution of SF-36 physical function scores from the subsample of Bowling et al’s. [18]
British community participants who were aged 18–59 and without long-term illness or disability (as
calculated from the published data [17]). Also presented for comparison are: (a) the recovery criteria
specified in the original protocol [12]; (b) the revised criteria used in the recovery paper [3] and (c)
mean scores for several chronic illness populations.")
