Stelo is basically just a consumer packaged version of the Dexcom G6, and in both cases they warn you to use a finger stick to verify unexpected readings. But finger sticks can be really inaccurate, too. For many diabetics it's not a life-or-death matter (only 1 in 4 type 2 patients end up using insulin), and the important thing is the trend over time.
I've personally found my CGM to be really useful in understanding the effect of diet, sleep, stress, etc. on my blood glucose, like the OP says, but you definitely get some weird readings sometimes. Yesterday a new unit told me that my blood glucose dropped below 70 for 2 hours. It definitely didn't! After a while it got itself straightened out in time to scold me for eating some corn chips.
The "satanic panic" was certainly an extreme example, but in general the entire industry spent a few decades inducing false memories. Because of the nature of trust in authority few people question when they are pressured to have a trauma and psychological effects from events that never occurred.
On the lesser end, I think many of the consumer oriented psychologists will take you in this direction with events that did occur but are probably typical experiences and only actually effect specific personalities.
Even more so, “satanic panic“ is a term that contains some truth (“tread carefully, conspiracy nuts territory“) but the overgeneralization makes it so actual organized abuse structures and its victims are dismissed too easily. Plenty of hard fact cases of such structures exist. See also for example the recent warning by Europol and the research into structures such as 764. The Bhagwan/Osho cult and many others can serve as prominent examples.
Reality is all shades of grey (or colors), not black and white. I find it important to warn of the dangers of such spiritual abuse communities and its techniques, and to not dismiss it as nonexistent and an invention of some esoteric nutjobs with the wave of a hand, which is what this terminology is doing. This attitude drives more people into such structures.
I don't really get your point. Our skepticism toward reports involving real cults and incompetent insititutions is certainly higher since 12000 patients were hurt by non existing satanic institutions in bad therapy. They are not less hurt by the fact that it could have happened.
Percentages from the lost in a mall experiment don't seem to show anything surprising about how I would expect these traumas to end up integrating with real experience, and the patients that were going to be most susceptible were probably not going to look like a random selection study, see far more in the importance of their relationship with their therapist, etc.
I was in the hospital for a month and was specifically prescribed BiPAP while I was there. I was completely unable to tolerate it and the technicians sent up to adjust it for me did not know how to access the clinician settings -- they just fiddled with the patient-facing controls, which are very limited. These were people who I am sure have lots of experience working on respirators and oxygen, but at least three different people clearly had no idea how to begin adjusting a ResMed BiPAP. Eventually, I was strong enough to get out of bed and adjust the settings myself, and finally I could get a good night's sleep.
That is to say that I agree: basically nobody outside of sleep clinics seems to know how they work, and even they don't provide much more expertise than you can get from publicly available information and tools.
Your claim is that CPAP gave this person a _communicable_ chest infection, which was then cured by herbal medicine? How could that possibly happen unless your local distilled water supply was contaminated with tuberculosis bacteria?
What part of "I make no claims for Chinese herbal cures" did you not understand?
It just underscores how batshit crazy people are and the low quality of some so-called "medical cures". Sometimes that includes "snake-oil salesmen", a category into which I now put CPAP vendors.
Improper cleaning maybe. People get Legionnaire's from shitty motel rooms with AC units that don't drain correctly, so it isn't that farfetched for a closed loop respirator full of moisture to harbor nasty pathogens all the same.
Yes, you can get infections from poorly maintained CPAPs (or respirators -- are those a scam, too?) but that's not going to spread to your whole family.
1) People who are not fully awake often do things for no clear reason -- I regularly wake up finding that I have no memory of removing my mask after 2-5 hours.
2) If you're prone to nightmares, waking up with something covering your face that causes bizarre sensations when you try to breathe through your mouth or speak may disturb you enough to tear it off.
And there similarly was a market for relatively low-budget and/or pornographic and/or copyright-infringing computer games in western markets, it's just that people today find weird old ecchi VNs with anime art more interesting than weird old strip poker games with digitized photos.
People making money off of something doesn't make it not a disaster, obviously. Within the past month crypto's biggest headline has been its use in bribing the US president.
That is true but I think he had a fair amount of input, and of course, all the rich lore and universe comes from him.
He actually later officially novelized the game. Kind of an interesting bit of trivia in the video game industry going from literature to game and then back to literature.
I've personally found my CGM to be really useful in understanding the effect of diet, sleep, stress, etc. on my blood glucose, like the OP says, but you definitely get some weird readings sometimes. Yesterday a new unit told me that my blood glucose dropped below 70 for 2 hours. It definitely didn't! After a while it got itself straightened out in time to scold me for eating some corn chips.