For the last decade, more and more funding has been allocated to research on many illnesses, such as ME/CFS. Many major research institutes are involved in ME/CFS research such as those at Harvard and Stanford.
As you already know, despite increased research efforts, chronic fatigue and CFS in Western medicine remains a complex condition with no identifiable cause or cure.
The research has been and will continue to be unsuccessful because researchers approach different aspects of CFS in isolation from one another. This reductionist approach looks at genetics, or at chronic fatigue as a possible autoimmune disease, or as something else, without a broader and deeper understanding of how the many parts and systems of the body interact with one another in different ways at different times in different environments. All this research examines CFS from one narrow perspective to the exclusion of other possible perspectives and approaches. They do not see a body or an interconnected system, only body parts on an examination table to be carefully classified, labeled, and then treated in isolation from one another.
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