The headers really set the tone!

Alice James’s diary entries on the suicides of random people

Even after her death, Henry maintained his vicious assessment of her illness as something she imposed on herself, unconsciously, for what current ME psychologisers have called (alleged) “secondary gains”, and what he called “her only solution to the practical problem of life”

Shortly before her death, she wrote to her other brother William James: “pray don’t think of me simply as a creature who might have been something else, had neurotic science been born … I have always had a significance for myself”

It’s an honour to have joined the @patientled.bsky.social as a contributor. The PLRC published the first study on long COVID, establishing the phenotypic characteristics of the disease doi.org/10.1016/j.ec..., and the most cited paper on LC, outlining its biomedical features doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Charles S. Peirce and Simone Weil

Ramsey coming up with his mature theory of induction in the middle of a talk

This entails that Bayesians, like Colin Howson, who think that conditionalisation can constitute a solution to the problem of induction, are wrong.

This is a shame because the approach to the problem of induction these Bayesians take is very interesting

A number of highly anticipated Long COVID trials have recently reported negative results: see their phenotypic eligibility criteria and the outcome measures used in the table below. (2/12)

Many Long COVID trials have reported negative results in 2024 and 2025. In our Comment for @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social we argue that inadequate outcome measures might have played a role. (1/12)

Peirce’s not-at-all dramatic take on subjective interpretations of probability