Lucibee
@lucibee.bsky.social
Science defender and eco-worrier.
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It's a thing. Apparently.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's a thing. Apparently.
It arrived just now! Love how they’ve classified it as “science fiction” 🤣
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It arrived just now! Love how they’ve classified it as “science fiction” 🤣
It was interesting how the Breathe programme seemed to help improve symptoms of dyspnea and breathlessness most under exercise conditions (stairs, running).
Note that the intervention exercises are singing and breathing exercises, not physical exercise per se.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Note that the intervention exercises are singing and breathing exercises, not physical exercise per se.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It was interesting how the Breathe programme seemed to help improve symptoms of dyspnea and breathlessness most under exercise conditions (stairs, running).
Note that the intervention exercises are singing and breathing exercises, not physical exercise per se.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Note that the intervention exercises are singing and breathing exercises, not physical exercise per se.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Interestingly, hyperventilation was the subject of the first letter on the page in my rabbit hole exploration of last week.
bsky.app/profile/luci...
Wessely & White et al. have undoubtedly done much harm by linking it with neurasthenia.
bsky.app/profile/luci...
Wessely & White et al. have undoubtedly done much harm by linking it with neurasthenia.
![Screenshot of letters page [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1836802/?page=1] showing first letter on "Hyperventilation and neurasthenia"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:idf6m3amxguxiftesf7y24hd/bafkreibmrsdabutvfktr6nnaeacbs2blgrgo4hv4kvt5kh6nfdolemgzja@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Interestingly, hyperventilation was the subject of the first letter on the page in my rabbit hole exploration of last week.
bsky.app/profile/luci...
Wessely & White et al. have undoubtedly done much harm by linking it with neurasthenia.
bsky.app/profile/luci...
Wessely & White et al. have undoubtedly done much harm by linking it with neurasthenia.
This fallacy keeps being repeated. Richmond got it wrong.
The so-called "ME Sufferers' Bill" brought as a private member's bill by Jimmy Hood MP in 1987, never made it past the second reading, due to repeated subsequent objections all the way through 1988. It therefore never made it into law.
The so-called "ME Sufferers' Bill" brought as a private member's bill by Jimmy Hood MP in 1987, never made it past the second reading, due to repeated subsequent objections all the way through 1988. It therefore never made it into law.
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This fallacy keeps being repeated. Richmond got it wrong.
The so-called "ME Sufferers' Bill" brought as a private member's bill by Jimmy Hood MP in 1987, never made it past the second reading, due to repeated subsequent objections all the way through 1988. It therefore never made it into law.
The so-called "ME Sufferers' Bill" brought as a private member's bill by Jimmy Hood MP in 1987, never made it past the second reading, due to repeated subsequent objections all the way through 1988. It therefore never made it into law.
And why on earth are they resurrecting the term PIFS (post-infective fatigue syndrome)?
Have they forgotten what one their own (Prof Kendell) wrote in 1991? 🙄
Have they forgotten what one their own (Prof Kendell) wrote in 1991? 🙄
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
And why on earth are they resurrecting the term PIFS (post-infective fatigue syndrome)?
Have they forgotten what one their own (Prof Kendell) wrote in 1991? 🙄
Have they forgotten what one their own (Prof Kendell) wrote in 1991? 🙄
March 1988 is when SW, David and Pelosi, get their "thesis" into the literature: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Although rubbishing the current science was hardly a thesis of anything at all. 😡
Although rubbishing the current science was hardly a thesis of anything at all. 😡
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
March 1988 is when SW, David and Pelosi, get their "thesis" into the literature: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Although rubbishing the current science was hardly a thesis of anything at all. 😡
Although rubbishing the current science was hardly a thesis of anything at all. 😡
Yesterday at the window feeder, a very dark coloured blue tit.
We wondered if it was a rare melanistic bird, but I suspect it just fell down a chimney and got covered in soot. 🥹
#WildlifeAtMyWindow
We wondered if it was a rare melanistic bird, but I suspect it just fell down a chimney and got covered in soot. 🥹
#WildlifeAtMyWindow
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Yesterday at the window feeder, a very dark coloured blue tit.
We wondered if it was a rare melanistic bird, but I suspect it just fell down a chimney and got covered in soot. 🥹
#WildlifeAtMyWindow
We wondered if it was a rare melanistic bird, but I suspect it just fell down a chimney and got covered in soot. 🥹
#WildlifeAtMyWindow
In 1978, the term "epidemic neuromyasthenia" was also in use. But Gordon Parish was concerned that the term could be confused with "neurasthenia".
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Then certain bad actors then decided to deliberately equivocate the terms in the late 1980s (example above).
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Then certain bad actors then decided to deliberately equivocate the terms in the late 1980s (example above).
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In 1978, the term "epidemic neuromyasthenia" was also in use. But Gordon Parish was concerned that the term could be confused with "neurasthenia".
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Then certain bad actors then decided to deliberately equivocate the terms in the late 1980s (example above).
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Then certain bad actors then decided to deliberately equivocate the terms in the late 1980s (example above).
"...a little more psychology and a little less T cells would be welcome..."
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"...a little more psychology and a little less T cells would be welcome..."
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I was interested to find this comment by Gordon Parish and his concern that the term 'neuromyasthenia' might be confused with 'neurasthenia', which is precisely what SW deliberately did in the late 1980s.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I was interested to find this comment by Gordon Parish and his concern that the term 'neuromyasthenia' might be confused with 'neurasthenia', which is precisely what SW deliberately did in the late 1980s.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Dr Wookey refers to Dr Easton's letter of a few weeks earlier.
Which is this one (or at least on this page - pubmed hasn't captured the letter itself). www.bmj.com/content/1/61...
Which is this one (or at least on this page - pubmed hasn't captured the letter itself). www.bmj.com/content/1/61...
![Modified screenshot of extract from page 1696 (BMJ 24 June 1978).
Text starts: "Sir - I disagree with the view you express in your leading article (3 June, p1436) that the many epidemics you cite compose a single nosological entity. Outbreaks in hospital staff apart, these miscellaneous episodes and others described at the symposium at the Royal Society of Medicine may well have been as diverse aetiologically as they were geographically..."
He then goes on to suppose that the Royal Free outbreak was indeed an outbreak of hysteria because it looked nothing like infectious mononucleosis. [eyeroll]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:idf6m3amxguxiftesf7y24hd/bafkreihbgevsh44yd33rqbes6taunn5s62chkxbirganbiulhu5e5ky63a@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Dr Wookey refers to Dr Easton's letter of a few weeks earlier.
Which is this one (or at least on this page - pubmed hasn't captured the letter itself). www.bmj.com/content/1/61...
Which is this one (or at least on this page - pubmed hasn't captured the letter itself). www.bmj.com/content/1/61...
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I wonder what the Nursing Times have got against the existence of Anglesey?
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I wonder what the Nursing Times have got against the existence of Anglesey?
"We have received 41 other letters making very similar points to those of Ms Hartnell and Dr Wookey - Ed, BMJ"
Yeah. Maybe try actually listening to what they say, one day? 🙄
Yeah. Maybe try actually listening to what they say, one day? 🙄
November 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"We have received 41 other letters making very similar points to those of Ms Hartnell and Dr Wookey - Ed, BMJ"
Yeah. Maybe try actually listening to what they say, one day? 🙄
Yeah. Maybe try actually listening to what they say, one day? 🙄
The pumpkin has been deployed 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The pumpkin has been deployed 🎃
A thread 🧵
Dr Siouxsie Wiles is a UK-trained microbiologist who moved to New Zealand in 2009 to be an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland to continue her work in bioluminescence.
Like many academic jobs, science communication was a key aspect, which she embraced enthusiastically.
Dr Siouxsie Wiles is a UK-trained microbiologist who moved to New Zealand in 2009 to be an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland to continue her work in bioluminescence.
Like many academic jobs, science communication was a key aspect, which she embraced enthusiastically.
October 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A thread 🧵
Dr Siouxsie Wiles is a UK-trained microbiologist who moved to New Zealand in 2009 to be an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland to continue her work in bioluminescence.
Like many academic jobs, science communication was a key aspect, which she embraced enthusiastically.
Dr Siouxsie Wiles is a UK-trained microbiologist who moved to New Zealand in 2009 to be an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland to continue her work in bioluminescence.
Like many academic jobs, science communication was a key aspect, which she embraced enthusiastically.
Happy Halloween from UKHSA.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Happy Halloween from UKHSA.
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It chimed with me.
At the time, I was in my forties, unemployed, and very definitely hanging on. Still am.
I'm not "an extremist" though, and I would never send the sorts of messages they mention in the article.
So I made a meme-quote. #cultish
At the time, I was in my forties, unemployed, and very definitely hanging on. Still am.
I'm not "an extremist" though, and I would never send the sorts of messages they mention in the article.
So I made a meme-quote. #cultish
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It chimed with me.
At the time, I was in my forties, unemployed, and very definitely hanging on. Still am.
I'm not "an extremist" though, and I would never send the sorts of messages they mention in the article.
So I made a meme-quote. #cultish
At the time, I was in my forties, unemployed, and very definitely hanging on. Still am.
I'm not "an extremist" though, and I would never send the sorts of messages they mention in the article.
So I made a meme-quote. #cultish
Reminded of this today.
It appeared in the Sunday Times in May 2013, a few months after the awarding of the first #MaddoxPrize.
It appeared in the Sunday Times in May 2013, a few months after the awarding of the first #MaddoxPrize.
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reminded of this today.
It appeared in the Sunday Times in May 2013, a few months after the awarding of the first #MaddoxPrize.
It appeared in the Sunday Times in May 2013, a few months after the awarding of the first #MaddoxPrize.
Finally, it is attempting to flower. Guizotia abyssinica
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Finally, it is attempting to flower. Guizotia abyssinica
October 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Here's an extract from Whitty's ninth statement about Long Covid in children.
I'd love to know which scientific review he is referring to (INQ000618220 - not currently on the #UKCovidInquiry website). 🤔
I'd love to know which scientific review he is referring to (INQ000618220 - not currently on the #UKCovidInquiry website). 🤔
![Extract from Whitty's ninth witness statement reads:
Long COVID was a factor when considering reducing general transmission but it was not a factor when considering school closures, the harm from closing schools would have outweighed the benefits, especially as children could still be infected with COVID in the community.
5.15. The Inquiry has asked me to explain what the current understanding is in relation to post-COVID-19 conditions in children. These have changed over time, probably as a result of children acquiring immunity due to infection, vaccination or some combination of these, as well as changes in the virus, in particular the arrival of the Omicron variant and the variants that arose from that. As a result the already relatively smaller risk of post-COVID-19 syndromes relative to adults has become smaller still, and has changed in its nature. It is however not zero. It should be noted that even for the much more common post-Covid syndromes in adults there is still significant uncertainty in, and debate around, the scientific literature on the causes and long-term outcome of long Covid and other syndromes. This uncertainty is still greater in children, in part because of the (welcome) fact that the proportion of cases which led to significant and prolonged symptoms afterwards was smaller. Various recent scientific reviews have been published, such as [CJMW9/098 INQ000618220], but their overall conclusion is generally that whilst the incidence of post-Covid syndromes is probably now even lower due to a combination of viral changes and immunity, the long term effects of the minority of children who developed post-Covid syndromes is currently not clear, with significant technical difficulties in ascribing causality of symptoms such as tiredness [CJMW9/099 INQ000606861]. Many recover fully, but not all have unfortunately.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:idf6m3amxguxiftesf7y24hd/bafkreihlzrxoonjtnsuvnwvdvotiuniozy64lccfa3yeppx6elmlfyu654@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Here's an extract from Whitty's ninth statement about Long Covid in children.
I'd love to know which scientific review he is referring to (INQ000618220 - not currently on the #UKCovidInquiry website). 🤔
I'd love to know which scientific review he is referring to (INQ000618220 - not currently on the #UKCovidInquiry website). 🤔