Quackademic
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Exposing questionable medical claims, diagnostic guesswork, and spectacular displays of professional overconfidence. Where credentials meet criticism, and evidence is apparently optional.
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A tag for speculative ideas, alternative explanatory models, and testable propositions intended to generate discussion and further investigation rather than establish conclusions.
When Defending FND Means Missing the Point
1 week ago
David Healy's warning that drug toxicity can disappear behind an FND diagnosis has provoked predictable criticism. But much of the response confuses how FND is supposed to be diagnosed with how it is actually diagnosed. The literature itself shows misdiagnosis, overdiagnosis and diagnostic overshadowing occur. You can dislike Healy's language. You still have to answer his argument.
The Diagnosis of the Gaps: FND and the Problem of Phenotype Overlap
2 weeks ago
Davenport et al.’s comparison of Long COVID, ME/CFS and FND has drawn criticism, but some apparent errors expose a deeper problem: when FND can resemble almost every common neurological phenotype, definitions can determine the answer before the differential even begins.
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