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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 5m

Evidence should stand on its own merit, regardless of whether it aligns with our preconceptions or professional identity.

Changing one’s mind is not a weakness. It’s the essence of scientific integrity.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We often underestimate how much our evaluation of an argument depends on who says it, not what is being said.

In science, this is fatal. Evidence should stand on its own merit, regardless of whether it aligns with our preconceptions or professional identity.

I’m struck time and again by how some colleagues dismiss biological evidence simply because it contradicts their established worldview.

If an illness can be transferred to healthy mice through immunoglobulin G, it is — by any rational standard — organic.

And yet, in the debate around ME and Long Covid, the same pattern repeats: a refusal to reconsider, even in the face of converging studies, meta-analyses, and international scientific consensus.

Changing one’s mind is not a weakness. It’s the essence of scientific integrity.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.30.596590v1 Transfer of IgG from Long COVID patients induces symptomology in mice | bioRxiv

Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 21m

Timothy Jacob Wise is a brilliant anti-racism activist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4fb...

An Evening with Tim Wise: A White Anti-Racist Advocate

YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV)

www.youtube.com

Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 27m

Perhaps the hardest thing for a woman to learn is that she was never the problem. (Adrienne Rich)

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Peter Schneider @peterschneider.bsky.social · 21h

Was unter Jelzin die Erinnerung an die Opfer war, ist unter Putin die Monumentalisierung der Henker

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 48m

Jared Diamond’s hypothesis that the Rapa Nui felled too many trees to transport the huge moai was wrong.

They not only lived in a very sustainable way, but they used an ingenious method instead!

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists just proved the moai could walk, solving a 500-year mystery

Researchers confirmed that Rapa Nui’s moai statues could “walk” upright using a rocking motion, aided by rope and just a few people. Experiments with replicas and 3D models revealed design features...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 2d

Book recommendation: “How to be well” by Amy Larocca. A critical analysis of the self-care epidemic and how it criticizes women’s looks in order to sell dubious treatments, all in the name of pseudo empowerment.

www.amylarocca.com/book-how-to-... How To Be Well — Amy Larocca

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 2d

Ich habe gerade ein hervorragendes Buch gelesen, „Das Sterben der Demokratie“. Trotz defätistischem Titel ist es durchaus konstruktiv und bietet konkrete Lösungsvorschläge.

Prädikat: äusserst empfehlenswert.

www.rowohlt.de/buch/richard...

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 2d

Wie steht’s mit dem Gesundheitswesen? Wo soll man Hochrisikopersonen schützen wenn nicht im Gesundheitswesen?

www.nau.ch/news/schweiz...

Experten rechnen mit einer hohen Zahl von viralen Infektionen Winter 25/26 und empfehlen insbesondere Risikopersonen freiwilliges Maskentragen.

Wie steht’s mit dem Gesundheitswesen? Wo soll man Hochrisikopersonen schützen wenn nicht im Gesundheitswesen?

Übrigens besteht auch mit Omikron-Viren immer noch 5-10 % Risiko von Long Covid, und selbst wenn man kein Long Covid bekommt, besteht ein deutlich erhöhtes Risiko für kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen und Autoimmunerkrankungen, das Gehirn altert und das Immunsystem wird nachhaltig geschädigt.

https://www.nau.ch/news/schweiz/corona-experten-raten-zum-freiwilligen-tragen-von-schutzmasken-67051458

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 4d

FDR had to hide his paralysis to be electable.

Today, a man’s obvious psychological and cognitive unfitness doesn’t block re-election — it fuels it.

People don’t oppose the bully anymore; they join him, hoping his cruelty shields them from it.

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 6d

As the economy lists toward stagflation, the White House is not doing “state capitalism” so much as it’s doing “step-on-a-rake capitalism”—a tragicomic bungling of economic growth that fails to advance the very objectives it claims to prioritize. (Derek Thompson)

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 6d

Ich habe an Psychosomatik-Weiterbildung über Long Covid und ME referiert: Überhaupt keine ignoranten Wutausbrüche oder paternalistischen Belehrungen - es schien allen (zumindest nach dem Referat!) klar zu sein, dass PAIS organisch sind und Psychotherapie lediglich unterstützende Rolle spielt.

Bettina Grande @bettinagrande.bsky.social · 6d

Weil ME/CFS nicht in Psychiatrie und Psychosomatik gehört,
muss dort darüber gesprochen werden:
Auf dem Kongress der #DGPPN beim Symposium, gemeinsam mit
@scheibenbogen.bsky.social
@buechnerronja.bsky.social
u.Jana Schweiger,
27.11. in Berlin.
#MECFS #PEM #NoGET #NoRehab #PEMistnichtverhandelbar

Blauer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „© Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde e. V. (DGPPN)“

Grafik mit großem Schriftzug „2025“ in Orange vor Berliner Skyline. Text: „Der diesjährige DGPPN Kongress findet vom 26.–29. November 2025 im CityCube Berlin und online per Livestream statt. Leitthema: Der Mensch im Mittelpunkt: regionale, personenzentrierte Versorgung.“

Screenshot des DGPPN-Kongressprogramms. Unter Raum M8 gelistet: Carmen Scheibenbogen – „Prävalenzen, Symptome und Pathomechanismen von Long Covid und ME/CFS“; Ronja Büchner – „Stigmatisierungserleben von Menschen mit Long Covid und ME/CFS“; Janina Schweiger – „Psychiatrische Mit-Behandlung bei Long Covid und ME/CFS“; Bettina Grande – „Die Rolle der Psychotherapie bei ME/CFS“.

Blauer Hintergrund mit weißem Zitattext: „Weil ME/CFS nicht in Psychiatrie und Psychosomatik gehört, muss dort darüber gesprochen werden.“ Darunter: „Bettina Grande, DGPPN-Kongress 2025“. Hashtags: #MEcfs #PEMistnichtverhandelbar.

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 6d

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. (Hannah Arendt)

Bench in Ljubljana

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine if major scientific conferences still denied milestones such as the rubella vaccine, the internet, plate tectonics or landing on the Moon. Yet in 2025, many German-speaking doctors are still taught that ME/CFS is psychosomatic.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Since 1969, the WHO has classified myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) as a neurological disease (ICD-8). In that same year, the rubella vaccine was licensed, the first internet message was sent, UNIX was born, plate tectonics became scientific consensus, and humans landed on the Moon.

Imagine if major scientific conferences still denied those milestones. Yet in 2025, many German-speaking doctors are still taught that ME/CFS is psychosomatic—despite decades of biomedical evidence and a 1969 WHO classification that placed it firmly within neurology.

You can even transfer Long Covid with immunoglobulin G from affected humans to healthy mice 🐭 (ME/CFS is the severe form of Long Covid). Try that with a psychosomatic disorder…

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.30.596590v1 Transfer of IgG from Long COVID patients induces symptomology in mice | bioRxiv

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 7d

Seit Anfang 2025 gilt in der Schweiz das „Burkaverbot“. Ich wüsste gerne von den 51.2%, die dafür waren, inwiefern ihr Leben dadurch konkret verbessert wurde.

www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/vi... Eidgenössische Volksinitiative 'Ja zum Verhüllungsverbot'

Politische Rechte

www.bk.admin.ch

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 7d

One of my favorite scientists and a fantastic human being has died. 😢

Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 7d

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

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Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 8d

Uneingeschränkte Empfehlung: Wim Wenders, Perfect Days. Spielt in Tokyo, und ich mag alles daran.
h/t @susscrofa.bsky.social !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv8Y...

PERFECT DAYS | Official Trailer | Now Streaming

YouTube video by MUBI

www.youtube.com

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 8d

Also 2025: I’m an expert for Long Covid and ME/CFS and give courses at universities. 🤓

Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 8d

2005 I considered a Master of Medical Education, which costs 50 k CHF.

I was told only professors teach, with MME I could just write PowerPoint slides for “real” professors.

2025: due to lack of 💸 they are looking for self employed neurologists to teach students. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 8d

2005 I considered a Master of Medical Education, which costs 50 k CHF.

I was told only professors teach, with MME I could just write PowerPoint slides for “real” professors.

2025: due to lack of 💸 they are looking for self employed neurologists to teach students. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 9d

Violet Affleck said she was "terrified for the children … will not know the potential of their own minds, unfettered by the cognitive damage of a COVID-19 infection."
abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews....

Wearing an N95 mask, Violet Affleck said, "I represent a generation that in many ways already knows how we've been failed. We are told by leaders across the board that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes."
Violet Affleck said she was "terrified for the children who do not or soon will not know a world without debilitating pain and exhaustion, who cannot trust their bodies to play, explore, and imagine, and who will not know the potential of their own minds, unfettered by the cognitive damage of a COVID-19 infection."
https://abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/Culture/ben-affleck-jennifer-garners-daughter-violet-spoke-united/story?id=125899256

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 9d

Unbedingte Leseempfehlung: «Wenn Russland gewinnt», von Politikwissenschafter Carlo Masala

www.srf.ch/news/interna... «Wenn Russland gewinnt» – ein düsteres Szenario für Europa - News - SRF

«Wenn Russland gewinnt» – ein düsteres Szenario für Europa

Russland siegt und die Nato zerbricht: Carlo Masala zeigt auf, wie Europas Sicherheitsarchitektur einstürzen könnte.

www.srf.ch

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 13d

😁

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 13d

After a week of vacation, I think I may have gained weight.

Boyfriend: ”no wonder, with all those museums and bookstores you visit!“ 😆

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 13d

I tell my boyfriend about a man who turned blind because he was an alcoholic, a smoker and ate only bread.

Boyfriend: “Because of the bread!?!” 😆😆😆

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 13d

Asian hornet, first sighting in Trieste in 2018, now very common (I took the photo on the wall of the citadel San Giusto).

Back then it was the most northern colony of the world.

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 15d

Wenn das alles so funktioniert, wird es in wenigen Jahren für einen relevanten Teil der (ME/CFS-)Patienten wirksame Therapien geben. (Prof. Carmen Scheibenbogen)

www.spektrum.de/news/carmen-...

Wenn das alles so funktioniert, wird es in wenigen Jahren für einen relevanten Teil der (ME/CFS-)Patienten wirksame Therapien geben. Das wird das gesamte Feld verändern – dann werden auch die Zweifler still sein und hoffentlich die Neurologen in die Versorgung mit einsteigen. (Prof. Carmen Scheibenbogen)

https://www.spektrum.de/news/carmen-scheibenbogen-ueber-therapien-und-medikamente-fuer-me-cfs/2282614?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAM_2P1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlrflCKEDeDvP2nMp8X0uy-3_YRwV9iDaH7aiDwiebbXD4Zr_YBuJZHkqb2S_aem_OqAQA37nfqLbO_ANEsGYXA#Echobox=1758610865

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