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So, someone with limited/no medical or science education?

As usual mothers are generally to blame... "overprotective mothers stunted their children’s maturation and were, according to a leading American psychiatrist, “our gravest menace” in the fight against communism; excessively permissive mothers produced children who would become juvenile...

This looks prety different from the 2018 conference. It is termed a Fatigue super conference, not a CFS conference.

This KT King podcast is well worth a listen.

And the reviewers did not notice this!

Eagerly looking forward to response to this from @Brian Hughes, @dave30th and others

Thank you

@Emsho @Amw66 do either of you know what AfME are doing in Scotland/mentoring scheme etc?

I have heard Julia Newton (Newcastle) and Jo Cambridge with Fane Mensah give presentations in recent years. Chris Ponting was in the audience last year. Karl Morten says he has been for the last 3 years. Dr Bansal has also presented. I think these days some of the researchers go to the...

Looking forward to hearing Ron Tomkins speak at Invest in ME research conference in a couple of weeks

This one has already been given a thread.

@Trish, there is also a fifth. Doukrou M, Hiremath S, Ferin K, Jones S, Begent J, Segal T. G612(P)  Characterisation of population, review of service provision, and outcomes for young people with chronic fatigue syndrome in a tertiary care inpatient setting...

Hopefully their data showing that c 90% of people have stopped or reduced work, they will produce information on work and ME that is better than their SeeME toolkit.

The tender for the Young people Focus Group has been extended to 10 June file:///C:/Users/140617/Downloads/NGC%20tender%20document%20for%20MECFS_young%20people_second%20call.pdf

Even Professor Dorothy Bishop, who has previously supported BPS approach to ME was very lukewarm in her response to SMILE in the SMC briefing. http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-controversial-treatment-for-cfsme/ SEPTEMBER 20, 2017 expert reaction to controversial treatment...

So it is a study by 2 psychologists, one of whom is from Bath. Would we expect a useful conclusion?

Many of the posters at these events echo the "we need more biomedical research" message

Other good people to interview. Dr Nina Muirhead and Dr Nigel Speight. Countrygirl from PR has extensive info on youngsters being threatened in South West and has herself been ignored at A and E for serious heart problems because of her ME diagnosis. @Gary Burgess who has done the ME show...

The top item on the flyers handed out at the Millions Missing events, under "WE DEMAND THE FOLLOWING (is) Parity of resesearch funding: The government must urgently invest in biomedical research after years of neglecting people with ME. Funding of research must reflect the severity of ME and...

Yup, the PhD student is in place. Carol M referred to visiting him and urged us to push our MPs for more targetted funding for biomedical research into ME.