Chloé de Canson

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Formerly assistant professor of philosophy • bedbound since 2022 with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis, a type of long COVID • philosophy of science, epistemology incl. social, and their history • chloedecanson.net • 🇵🇸

Blurred photo of Obama on the left which reads “original”, and non blurred photo of a generic white guy on the right which reads “result”. The implication is that some computer programme has “recovered” or “unblurred” the photo of Obama, but they have clearly missed the point
THE LANCET Infectious Diseases COMMENT • Online first, March 31, 2026 The case for routine patient review in long COVID research Letícia Soares . CH Romatowski . Gina Assaf . Chloé de Canson
"Invisible Illness" could have been transgressive. Instead, it minimizes Long COVID. Written by Shielding Cournoyer - February 13, 2026 The book fails to convey the severity of infection-associated chronic conditions, demands for treatment, or importance of infection prevention.
A man has committed suicide in St. Paul's which I allow is inexcusably sloppy of him but it has caused a delicious fuss and fluster among the shovel hats. The Cathedral will have to be re-consecrated, they fear, but perhaps they may be able with their highly developed muscles of evasion to wash out the stain of blood by an "Act of Reconciliation!" I can never accustom
a strange, living richness. But it also puts before me what I was tremendously conscious of in her lifetime—that the extraordinary' intensity of her will and personality really would have made the equal, the reciprocal life of a "well" person—in the usual world-almost impossible to her—so that her disastrous, her tragic health was in a manner the only solution for her of the practical problem of life-as it suppressed the element of equality, reciprocity, etc.
You must also remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied; so when I am gone, pray don't think of me simply as a creature who might have been something else, had neurotic science been born. Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumble along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?
Logo of the patient led collaborative
The other possible account has only just occurred to me, and as I am tired I cannot see clearly if it is sensible or absurd. Roughly it is that a type of inference is reasonable or unreasonable according to the relative frequencies with which it leads to truth and falsehood. Induction is reasonable because it produces predictions which are generally verified, not because of any logical relation between its premiss and conclusion. On this view we should establish by induction that induction was reasonable, and induction being reasonable this would be a reasonable argument.
THE LANCET Infectious Diseases COMMENT • Online first, November 07, 2025 Negative results in long COVID clinical trials: choosing outcome measures for a heterogeneous disease Lara Goxhaj • Lisa McCorkell • Femke van Rhijn-Brouwer . Letícia Soares . Julia Moore Vogel . Chloé de Canson
8 "Nobody can go further than I in condemnation of this way of using probability, which completely vitiates the theory and practice of Inductive and Abductive reasoning, has set back civilization, and has corrupted ideals" (CP 2.101, 1902).