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Tweeting quotes attributed to Richard Feynman, Einstein, the Dalai Lama etc etc isn't really an argument. You might as well say "Birds of a feather ...", "Takes one to know one ...", "He who smelt it dealt it ...", "same to you and no returns" or just stick your fingers in your ear and say "la...

Quite. Instead of rounding up five of the usual suspects for a dodgy quote, they could have asked 42 real leading ME researchers and clinicians what they think. Too much work for a BBC journalist? Don't worry, someone's already done the work for them...

Yes, but the full title he gave himself when signing the letter to the BBC included "Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)". What's a health economist anyway? Real economists have a poor enough track record in trying to sort out the economy, so why allow one anywhere near health?

Is he just sticking "Neuro" in front of it to sound more scientific? What other kinds of psychiatrist are there? Podiatric psychiatrists?

I'm rather worried that a certain kind of psychologist thinks they should get to define what a normal level of sensitivity and empathy is.

Now there's an idea ...

Indeed. It didn't even take an FOI to get that letter. So far Sir Simon has been using journalists who just can't be bothered thinking about what they are doing to his advantage, so he must be very disappointed that it didn't quite work out that way for him this time :).

Well to be exact it was Charles Shepherd who was called a "leading expert" at the beginning of the article. Our dodgy friends who were given the last word at the end of the article were called "some of the country's leading ME researchers and clinicians". However, did the BBC not notice that 4...

In the video Janet says "we have our own code", and in their code the hands clasped like that mean "please" or "begging". If we want to talk about sign language, that gesture seems to already have been assigned to "pray" in the land of Janet Dafoe and Francis Collins (US sign language)...

They obviously haven't understood the point of Wifi in the Crawley household, which is that there are no more cables. The cables don't become invisible, they are simply not there. It's Wifi. This statement is interesting in that it shows the undue influence of Freud in the house though. I...

So where's the opinion in this? It's completely devoid of content apart from rudeness.

I'm not shocked, confused, or throwing rocks. I don't need to google it because I understand it. I am not living in fear of being outside or inside the norm. I just don't like it. Apart from facepalms, emotive and personal comments, does anyone who thinks it's a good idea have anything...

Whitney and his family can communicate with each other however they want, of course. But if Janet wants to make it into a "thing" and suggests that we all do it and send videos to Francis Collins "by the hundreds", then of course we are entitled to form a view on how this form of advocacy...

She was very unlucky to have two husbands with ME. Sorry to be flipant, but that's how I read it the first time .

Well I wasn't going to say anything, but I completely agree with you.

Oh that's what it is. I thought it might be baloney, not knowing what either of them are or look like. I got the general gist anyway. Whilst it's on my mind, I thought I'd better google "poppycock" to see what it is and what it looks like too. I must confess I was rather worried about what I...

We know from the PACE trial itself that the authors have a history of making claims on the basis of no evidence at all. I have no reason to believe anything they say about "harrassment" or "death threats" until one of them decides to break the habit of a lifetime and actually back up a claim...

Actually 15% of participants entered that trial with three strands of hair and left with only two, but because those two strands had grown and participants felt more hairy, they were deemed recovered.

I'm not sure we should make light of this. Many of those afflicted by the stigma of baldness haven't been able to leave their house for years. And it's not as if this problem hasn't been known about for decades - Hound Dog Taylor was trying to raise awareness in 1971, as have such brave...

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-44038756 Top story on the BBC News website this morning. All I can say is, thank God, and I hope they'll plough as much funding into solving this blight on the lives of millions as is necessary. For too long baldness has been assumed to be a mental health issue...