It's remarkable how off Zeynep is. Just repeating talking points, utterly unfamiliar with the history of these conditions. MS and ulcers were psychologized? False. MS was never "psychologized," it was widely understood to be a neurological condition since Charcot in the late 1800s. Only very, very fringe people psychologized it, and that happened far later. Ulcers were not psychologized. Everyone understood that the pain people experienced came from sores in the stomach lining. They never claimed that was "psychogenic." The question was what *caused* the sores. Most thought stress! Then h pylori was discovered to be necessary for (most) ulcers. However, many people have h pylori (50%)! Not everyone gets ulcers. To this day, there's still debate about why some people get them and others don't. Stress remains a likely culprit.

My latest feature for @WIRED is about long Covid. It focuses on extremely sick patients who believe they recovered, partially or fully, with the help of "mind-body therapies." But it is ALSO about why featuring these patients leads to the kind of reaction you see here:

There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it. wired.com/story/the-painful-…