Steve Chalmers

Tech guy from the computer era, retired from HPE in 2016; consult for Daedaelus;

Blasphemous hypothesis on a condition I've had for 30 years (baffles medicine)

[Steve Chalmers @FStevenChalmers]

@JuddLegum I'm on team "this is a pump and dump, with a rules change forcing these shares into index funds in two weeks, rather than a year of seasoning as is customary" making the index funds the greater fools, and the early investors and insiders able to sell some shares before 6 months.

[Steve Chalmers @FStevenChalmers]

@NeleHelena This hypothetical situation, and the radical view of the human body it implies, and the radical if not blasphemous disease mechanism it implies, reminds me of the doctors debating miasmas (and exiling Semmelweis), and causing puerperal fever, before Pasteur and infectious disease

[Steve Chalmers @FStevenChalmers]

@NeleHelena The basic rules of medical research would require experiments to consider exactly one of those thousands of things at a time, and would conclude it had no effect.

And would be unable to control an experiment for the state of the thousands of others.

[Steve Chalmers @FStevenChalmers]

@sunsopeningband Foolishly cutting the long standing program which protected us from those screw worms protected a set of "have" cattle ranchers and meat packers as well.

That reactionary fever dream of the "haves" turned out not to survive reality for even a year, did it?

Wonder what's next

[Steve Chalmers @FStevenChalmers]

@sunsopeningband I think we're at the stage just before the French Revolution, where the "haves" have been diverging from the "have nots" at frog boiling speed since Reagan

Ruthlessly removing any function of government which helps "have nots" has been a "have" agenda for over a century

[Steve Chalmers @FStevenChalmers]

@davidtuller1 @WIRED @AlanLevinovitz The most thorough in depth critique of this piece I've seen is
https://t.co/STl39ArxHh

I personally believe the piece is propaganda benefiting a special interest at the expense of a vulnerable patient population. What I don't know is who knew the "cui bono?", and who didn't know

[Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda]

The Painful Truth about the #Wired #LongCOVID article.

Deeply disappointing they published a misleading article that could cause real harm to so many people.

I had our latest research Al system deconstruct & critique it. Here's the short take-down.

https://t.co/SwUfUcS7Jf

[Dr. Phillip Alvelda @alvelda]

The Painful Truth about the #Wired #LongCOVID article.

Deeply disappointing they published a misleading article that could cause real harm to so many people.

I had our latest research Al system deconstruct & critique it. Here's the short take-down.

https://t.co/SwUfUcS7Jf

[Steve Chalmers @FStevenChalmers]

@alvelda Well done.

Thank you in particular for including the facts on the disability insurer denials, which I had postulated from my armchair in 2022 and you now confirm, at least by legal case anecdote.

I have been a skeptic of this century's AI for some time. This is very useful.

[Steve Chalmers @FStevenChalmers]

@dreamy_run @WIRED I am indifferent to whether the author truly believes the talking points, was source captured, or was simply paid to say them.

I am disappointed Wired printed the piece, serving the needs of a special interest with a lot of money at stake, at the expense of vulnerable patients.

[Steve Chalmers @FStevenChalmers]

@dreamy_run @WIRED So looking at this piece, at the talking points which so closely reflect what payers of disability income need said, even updated from 2022's "Long Covid is FND" to 2026's "Long Covid can be fixed by brain retraining", the piece is clearly PR (propaganda) for the same interest.

[Steve Chalmers @FStevenChalmers]

@dryostradamus I spent months trying to figure out what special interest could possibly benefit enough from denying and trivializing "Long Covid", and discouraging research funding

Then realized payers of disability income worldwide could profitably spend $ millions to avoid billions in costs

[Steve Chalmers @FStevenChalmers]

@dryostradamus 2. I was surprised in mid 2022 to see a number of talking heads who'd been denying and trivializing ME/"CFS" for years or decades pivot in near unison to deny and trivialize "Long Covid" as well, many using the "Long Covid is FND" talking point

this is not organic