@MECFSNanoneedle@JackHadfield14 There have been abundant cortical mapping studies. This is not a provisional hypothesis. There is simply no competing scientific explanation for why amputees feel phantom pain. It's consensus science.
@MECFSNanoneedle@JackHadfield14 Yes, there is ongoing study going on all the time to better understand conditions like CFS. That's as it should be. There is an autoimmune hypothesis. So far it is just that. Meanwhile it's clnically true that some CFS sufferers found relief in PRT.
@MECFSNanoneedle@JackHadfield14 Such treatment is not always 100% effective, because neuroplasticity is a complex phenomenon, the study of which is fairly recent. But that less-than-perfect effectivness does not lead neurologists to look for other causes. Neuroplasticity is still the strongest hypothesis.
@MECFSNanoneedle@JackHadfield14 But it's very well understood as a neuroplastic phenomenon, and can be successfully treated according to this understanding.
@MECFSNanoneedle@JackHadfield14 There's just not much available in the way of "objective crtieria" when syndromes are this vaguely defined. But we do have observational clinical experience that pain-reprocessing is a successful treatment. And the EAET trial is tentatively supportive.
@MECFSNanoneedle@JackHadfield14 The diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia are very broad: widespread severe pain that perists for at least 3 months. This may indicate a convergence of as-yet undefined conditions. Or it may simply be a fuzzy category for otherwise unexplained pain and fatigue.
@JackHadfield14 If you want to make a faith based argument, that medical science will at some point, find a structural underpinning for these conditions, followed by a pathway to therapy, go right ahead. But don’t pretend that it’s more evidence based than what the neuroplastic model offers.
@JackHadfield14 The evidence for neuroplastic or nociplastic illness is not slam dunk, but it is fairly robust as a theoretical model, and it is being applied to conditions (migraine, IBS, back pain, fibromyalgia, dizziness) for which medical science has no actionable diagnosis.
@kelleritha@AyySiegs@DJBranham “Successful politicians” was the category. She did indeed “have a plan for that” in 2020 but catchphrases aside, I don’t see much difference in the level of concrete detail her presidential campaign elaborated, and what Platner has put forward in his Senate bid.
@JGrizzy0213@AnaKasparian I would bet you're no different in this regard. You'd prefer an ideological ally in the Senate, even if they had to vote with the dum-dums half the time.
@JGrizzy0213@AnaKasparian Maine voters know if he can't persuade his colleagues on policy he'll have to compromise to the lowest comon denominator. They prefer him anyway, because people want to be represented by someone who recognizes their concerns, with or without magical powers.
@JGrizzy0213@AnaKasparian If you really believed it was out of reach, it wouldn’t bother you. You understand, though, that populism is contagious, which is why you don’t want to see him taken seriously,