"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. 
In the first, it is ridiculed.
In the second, it is opposed.
In the third, it is regarded as self evident."  
Schopenhauer

ME/CFS: 

"There are more than 5000 research papers which show that ME has an organic basis with abnormalities in the immune, nervous and gastrointestinal systems and that it is influenced by genetic and environmental factors," states Professor Kenny De Meirleir of Belgium.  "Despite these findings, it has been close to impossible to initiate large-scale research to verify these facts and observations. We will never be able to treat ME properly if we do not initiate this type of research."

Dr. Kenny De Meirleir
European Society for ME
2009

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"There are now over 4,000 published studies that show underlying biological abnormalities in patients with this illness.  It's not an illness that people can simply imagine that they have and it's not a psychological illness.  In my view, that debate, which was waged for 20 years, should now be over".

 Dr. A. Komaroff
Harvard Medical School
2005

ME/CFS:  "...If it were called chronic neuroinflammatory disease, then people would get it," she said. "Up until now nobody's been willing to change the name, but now there's proof that inflammation occurs in the brain.

There's evidence that the patients with this illness experience a level of disability that's equal to that of patients with late-stage AIDS, patients undergoing chemotherapy, patients with multiple sclerosis...."