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Just quack quack quack your way to more medical misinformation. Any double blind studies recognized by reputable medical entities—Not Sewer Swimming Brainworm Boy—that peer review such claims? Desperate to join CBS, CNN, Fox, NYTimes and other failed disreputable infotainment rags?

Let me guess. Snake oil?

Yeah, there finally may be a way forward: It's called wearing a goddamn mask (KN95/N95+) to avoid getting Covid in the first place.

This is incredibly disappointing and honestly outright dangerous. It's painfully obvious this article relies more on vibes than the mountain of actual sound research and studies on Long Covid. It's been 6 years. We know that LC isn't psychological, it's absolutely physiological. Do better WIRED.

@sharpflower.bsky.social Public Health Media Club episode???

after this and the A.I. stuff last moth, I'm done

Wired is blocked from ever showing me misinformation again. Get fucked and I hope anybody who appreciates science will block them as well.

You are going to lose all credibility when we learn just a little bit more about long Covid. Wired is a clickbait ass say anything for some views rag. I will never read another misinformation wired article unless I’m trying to make myself dumber.

Who is stopping anyone from talking about it? You're talking about it freely right now. Typically, these "cures" are just things that don't stand up to scientific scrutiny... You know? Like the link between autism and vaccines another thing "nobody could talk about."

But if you're not allowed to talk about it... How are you talking about it now? This is stupid. Of course you can talk about it.

„Humans need hope and change“

Did you just write an article about something you’re… not allowed to talk about???

Kaiser would not exist in a remotely ethical society.

there we go

Christ. what a horrible article. Zero evidence, you might as well be writing about fucking crystals healing Long COVID. You guys really flushed all that goodwill with the asinine AI shit last month and now this.

The fact that this is still up without apology or retraction is an absolute indictment of your editorial integrity. I hope you understand what you’ve done here.

I’ve never seen a brain retraining recovery story? Where are they if they exist?

It appears as though you created this account solely to leave this comment.

ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about daisies

How about a little reflection that your personal experience is not a universal one? It drives me nuts that I am repeatedly told that thinking happy thoughts will treat brain damage. A lot of people are being left for dead and I'm tired of this pseudo-scientific nonsense being highlighted.

That, there, is a problem I meet in all too many r/LongCOVIDrecovery posts. Check year-old stories & you'll find the OP has either: - Deleted their account - Stopped using their account - Only had a sprinkling of karma to begin with - Are still asking questions about treatments Testimonials ≠ RCTs

Wessely at one point sat on the advisory council for Sense About Science and was given an award by them in 2012. senseaboutscience.org/activities/2... web.archive.org/web/20160517...

I figured it was absolute nonsense. "People are so afraid to suggest excercise that they don't even dare say the word anymore". In what world?!

Long Covid is cruel indeed, know a man with it, it makes his life miserable.

This is simply inaccurate. Longcovid is a physical disease - you can see it in RNA changes in patients. There are dozens of medical researchers interviewed by the excellent Long Covid Sessions podcast, that qualify this: www.tlcsessions.net/episodes

They got bought up by Condé Nast, and their parent company has taken a pretty nasty turn to the Trumper hard right.

@wired.com and you believe this so sincerely, you’ll all be happy to accept Long Covid blood, right? 🩸 #ThisIsNotJournalism

Covid is the problem. Long Covid is the result. Don't focus on the result, fix the problem first. 🌬️ #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovid #CovidIsntOver

💯% of new long Covid cases are caused by Covid infections. We need stories about avoiding infection. About stopping spread. About ending the pandemic. Do MORE to stop the spread. We're not 'since' anything. #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsntOver #StopTheSpread #MaskUp #StayHome

The painful truth about this quack article is that myself and others are canceling our subscriptions because of it. I hope there is a box asking why so we can cite this bs article.

It’s so embarrassing that you wrote and published this. Girl be so fr

Omg yall would’ve been writing “think pieces” on how MS is hysteria

This is embarrassing, WIRED. I'm sad that my subscription paid for this dreck.

There are many actual studies showing what the biological mechanisms of long Covid are. You can’t just talk your self out of actual illness. This is pseudo science bs. My GM actually referred me to Becca Kennedy’s (family doctor) website watch any of the videos it’s not science based at all.

Right, this is where I cancel my subscription.

nobody in the scientific community is "baffled", it's actually kinda insane to claim this. long covid is not without precedent and research has been coming out at a rapid pace. you can in fact read a lot of it for free, something that your author should've maybe done more of

"if only you were allowed to talk about it" What kind of bs post is this?

“oh but he made some empathetic noises and said the symptoms were real!” yes dumbass that’s a manipulator 1010 trick and frankly if you fell for it, you’re a gullible child

oh good more opinion writing from people who aren't experts in the subject.

Don’t forget charging very large sums of money for no treatment at all.

ayup

So Becca Kennedy will be accepting Long Covid blood? 🩸 since she can “control it” with her mind.

Becca Kennedy is a family doctor. She has no specially in chronic illness. This group has no one who specializes in chronic illness. It’s pseudo science to the nth.

they've been saying this for decades about POTS, but after decades and thousands of people trying brain-retrain efforts, it's not a recommended treatment. because there's no evidence it does anything for the underlying problem.

But outside of the community, such recovery stories are frequently met with skepticism and frustration. www.wired.com/story/the-pa...

Oh, wow — anecdotal evidence! The most useless fucking kind!

The guy who has repeatedly written about why biophysical disabilities are not real and people are faking in articles and a book did it again! And you let him “There is no such thing as Long Covid” Alan Levinovitz yesterday to a journalist with Long Covid on Twitter www.celiac.com/celiac-disea...

Right but what you seem to miss is, if we're going to believe patients, we must also believe the patients for whom these approaches haven't worked or have actually made them worse. If you want to believe patients you can't cherry pick patients to only support your preferred narrative.

She attributes it to that because she's a hack, a quack and a grifter all at once.

Fuck, and I mean this sincerely, off.

People named Kennedy have nothing to offer the world.

It's not a theory, there is no scientific evidence for it. These hypotheses have been proposed regularly over the last 100 years for post-viral illnesses and they consistently fail to find any mechanistic evidence along the lines of brains getting stuck in feedback loops that cause the symptoms.

I would unfollow this account if I hadn't already.

This is a lie and you are liars.

Never hire a writer with a history of calling people disability fakers Never hire a writer with a history of discrediting experts in different biophysical conditions saying they’re “psychogenic” and “do not exist“ as he did with Long Covid and other conditions www.celiac.com/celiac-disea...

No, most of them don't know either. Scientists are who they need to talk to. Or, they could, read. There are more than half a million peer reviewed journal articles about SARS-CoV-2 and it's sequalae, long COVID. There is no aspect of long COVID that is psychosomatic, and this piece is harmful.

how about developing anti-virals to help with viral persistance? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

gotta stop letting people named kennedy talk about chronic illness

He sure seems to support DNRS a lot…

You're welcome. Seems weird I say it as often as I do, since promoting such things is so forbidden. Do better, Wired

Definitely just like vaccines in every way but being evidenced.

This! Thank you for your POV.

bad wired! bad!

You are allowed to talk about it! You're talking about it right now. Oh, you mean if only people would stop proving you wrong. What a joke of an article.

Every time this. The UK med establishment use “ it’s psychosomatic”as their get out of hard work card. Off you go dear…get better all on your own. We will leave you to it. No help, no support, no care…don’t care.

This is embarrassing.

Wired should be ashamed. Maybe they should try doing some actual research before publishing this kind of crappy pseudoscience. The best thing they could do right now would be to retract the article and issue an apology to all Long Covid patients and researchers.

It kinda seems like you are allowed to talk about it, but if you mean you’re not allowed to say whatever you want without pushback then, sure, congrats on having the brain of a rightwing YouTube conspiracist

Click bait.

Absolute garbage.

The Long Covid Sessions podcast has interviewed many researchers who do in fact find it a physical disease www.tlcsessions.net/episodes

What nonsense ~reporting is this?!

retract this if you have a shred of integrity left.

A little more than red flags. Bollocks comes to mind.😉

​The article doesn't give you a definitive "cure" because science itself hasn't reached one yet; instead, it provides an accurate snapshot of a medical community caught between a frustratingly slow biomedical search for answers and an unproven but highly promising neuroplastic alternative.🤷‍♂️

the Harvard/Beth Israel Deaconess study (by Mike Donnino et al.) tracking Psychophysiologic Symptom Relief Therapy. This pilot showed massive symptom reductions (e.g., pain down 50%, brain fog down 67%), but it was a small, non-randomized trial of just 23 people.

oh man, so so baffled, perhaps even perplexed and non plussed!

Huh, I didn’t realize we could just do brain retraining to get rid of the autoantibodies in LC. Why didn’t I think of that before? And maybe I should have used essential oils and positive thinking to treat my highly aggressive cancer 20 years ago instead of surgeries and immunotherapy? 🤷

The scientific community is not "baffled." Many doctors are baffled. Scientists are working as fast as they can to find treatments, just as they did with HIV/AIDS. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of us have no option but to wait and hope for a breakthrough, and this nonsense is not helpful.

This seems appropriate for their office wall … #ME is a physical illness. Stop with the psychobabble. @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

That @wired.com hit piece on Long COVID was actually a masterclass in gaslighting. Name-drop the hard science, only to dismiss it. Make it sound like all sides of this "debate" have legitimate arguments. It's the Climate Hoax all over again. "Climate skeptics are afraid of activist backlash".

Long COVID is in no way, shape, or form psychosomatic. Disappointing that Wired can't review the science around SARS-CoV-2 and long COVID. I thought Wired was science based.

next up: a netflix comedy special

Not your best effort @wired.com Quite retro! It's not the weird protocol you're touting here but the fact you cite old discredited disinfo/propaganda instead of any if the plethora of cutting-edge research. Promising results here: thesicktimes.org/2025/10/10/v...

Next time, put "paywall" in the text so we don't waste our time clicking on the clickbait link. Thank you.

Please document yourself appropriately on the pathophysiology and the biomedical evidence on #LongCovid e.g. www.mdpi.com/2673-8112/6/...

Long Covid is not "baffling" at all. There are thousands of publications which show multi-system pathology across all body systems, including extensive evidence of organ damage. The scientific and clinical evidence is undeniable and should be reported about accurately

Check wastewater levels. The height was much more recent than that. It largely changed from acute lethality to long term sequelae, but it's still dangerous af & this article is full of dangerous pseudoscience.

This is LC Reddit. Do these seem like people who could be cured with breathing exercises and happy thoughts? Or they sound like people who have tried everything they can and have been left to die by a society that has decided we're just the price to be paid to pretend the pandemic is over?

As a person w long COVID, I cannot overstate how harmful & unscientific this article is. Pushes the well debunked claims that exercise can help people w PEM and that brain retraining is a cure-all. We need real research. We are being left to die & this article is making things worse.