It's not a offensive to portray objective reality. People can and often do overreact and fake symptoms. This is just how it is. Why would that offend anyone?
The alternative to this is burying your head in the sand and saying we should take everyone at their word. This would result in a WORSE outcome for people that actually have the issues you're so worried about because the data would be skewed.
Maybe you ought to do the thinking, instead of emotionally reacting?
Let's do some thinking: collectively, we don't know enough about CFS or the human brain to make definitive statements like 'a large number are faking it.' You've confused your emotions for logic.
Nowhere does my comment state that no one is faking. You've simply left reality in favor of a fantasy.
This is what I said:
> collectively, we don't know enough about CFS or the human brain to make definitive statements like 'a large number are faking it.'
This is what it means:
We don't know enough to quantify the ratio of fakers.
'A large number are faking it' is a type of quantification: a ratio. In this case, a descriptive ratio that uses the words "large number" instead of literal numbers.
The alternative to this is burying your head in the sand and saying we should take everyone at their word. This would result in a WORSE outcome for people that actually have the issues you're so worried about because the data would be skewed.
Maybe you ought to do the thinking, instead of emotionally reacting?