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Christine Sutherland's avatar

I applaud your patience and commitment to detail so many of the fatal flaws in this review. But we shouldn’t have to attack it because frankly it should never have been published in the first place. But here we are - absolute crap gets published even in the most prestigious journals.

These specific types of papers arise out of a strong belief that patients are either/or lazy/cowardly and that really they just need to get off the couch and stop whining. All the convoluted posturing and cherry picking is just a cover for deep prejudice against and disrespectful for patients, along with ignorance of actual medical conditions. It is worse than sick. It is evil.

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Jon B's avatar

Blimey, just when you thought it was safe to get back in the pool, this hulking great turd of a paper winks its poopy eye at you.

Thanks for the very detailed analysis. I might run it through ChatGPT and see if it thinks it was generated by an under fed model.

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