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The issue here is that you did some "brief googling" (your words) on a complicated, confusing, cutting-edge area of clinical research, and now feel competent to state your completely uninformed "null-hypothesis"...

Here's some basic information:

https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/index.html

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-announces-...

http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2015/ME-CFS/MEC...

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jessriedel, the consensus is that this is a physiological disease with an unknown mechanism. That's why it's an area of active research.

I don't know where you get the idea that the null hypothesis for the cause of any set of symptoms not explained by known biomarkers needs to be "psychosomatic disorder". That's not even wrong - it makes no sense.

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I've seen those links. Is there some particular evidence you're pointing to? Or a position statement by experts concerning a convincing physiological mechanism?
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