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Well, that's what you say.

Quite so. (One of these days I'm going to get caught out bluffing my way in a subject I don't even barely understand, but for the time being I don't think anyone's noticed ...)

Godwin's Law isn't really a law. It's just the name given to a mildly amusing observation someone made which has become a bit of a thing.

Thank goodness for that - I was worried I wouldn't even have time to bake a cake.

What are you doing in Germany? You're making me nervous ... EDIT: Or is it just me who can see that in German?

"Wow" as in "how beautiful" or "Wow" as in "Holy crap why on earth are we letting these people near patients"? It's always so hard to tell with Wessely what exactly he's saying.

Actually I don't recall ever being called a girl (mind you "wimp" and "little flower" come from women in my family, and women would be less likely to call me a "girl" in a derogatory way). No man would ever dare call me a wimp, flower or girl because they'd get thumped. I think I was using it...

The atomic model of matter does depend on charm.

I discussed the PACE trial with a friend of mine, a retired professor of neurology, and sent him some links. The next time I met him (for wine, with dinner, but more for the wine, we each paid for our own, an analysis of which will feature in my forthcoming paper as a footnote) his comment was...

I'm sorry I can't accept that, he has to actually offer a cup of tea to a real person. Whilst researching the chances of me losing my bet my new paper - Gender Differences in the Incidence of Proferred Beverages, a Narrative Review - I came across the following paper, which is fascinating for...

Ok if anyone can find a reference to Simon Wessely offering a cup to tea to someone I'll donate $50 to #MEAction. $100 if the person he offered the tea to was a man. I need data, dammit.

:rofl::rofl::rofl: Hey, this is a thing! Maybe he has a rule never to offer the same drink twice? Or maybe only men get alcohol - wine and beer, and women get water or coffee. I shall develop this and write a paper.

Well that was an interesting scientific debate, thanks. We do realise you live a busy life and have to be off somewhere important. I think he offered James Coyne a bottle of wine if memory serves, but only if Coyne could prove that Wessely had really said something. An analysis of who he...

Wessely has just tweeted it himself. Unbelievable innit? He actually still believes that that is the last word on PACE and explains everything, and is still referring people to it. It's almost as if, once he has written something, it can never be wrong. How can someone who has slimed his way to...

Ugh.

Well we don't often see Michael Sharpe shut up and back away, so that's an achievement in itself @Lou Corsius :thumbup:

Do I really have to battle?

OMG I can't believe it that describes me perfectly too!

Interesting that even an opponent of psychosomatic theory bought into the type A personality thing. I really wish that instead of aguing about which personality type is / is not most affected, more people would question whether talking in terms of personality traits of of any use whatsoever, not...

I don't think so, they understood his tweets perfectly. I'm sure with 32,000 tweets to his name Godwin is well aware that he occasionally rubs people up the wrong way by coming over as preachy, it can't be the first time. For all we know it might be the part of the exchange he relishes most, he...