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I think many would happily use a kind of oxymoron like "uncounscious malingering". And indeed the reference to secondary gains is symptomatic of it. It's not malingering, but the patient is finding advantages in being sick, but it's not really conscious, but maybe a bit....

To be precise, MS said that's how doctors view us. (but IMO, it's a way to say it without saying it. "Some say..." should always be followed by a firm condemnation, if not it remains ambiguous.)

https://notthesciencebit.net/2019/03/21/if-you-spend-20-years-gaslighting-your-patients-perhaps-you-should-think-twice-before-accusing-them-of-trolling-you/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

The exit door is wide open in front of them, but I'm not sure they see it nor that they have any strategy. When I see that Sharpe hangs on to his motto "read the paper", as if he believed that anyone was to be magically convinced of the validity of his work after reading (as it used to be during...

As anyway, their tactic is to accuse us of organising campaigns, even when there's none, the risk in setting up a coordinated campaign would be to be accused of organising a coordinated campaign, wich they heve yet accused us of... so maybe worth coordinating a campaign, not much to lose.

A case with some similarities: https://www.propublica.org/article/university-of-illinois-chicago-uic-research-misconduct-letters-documents

Posts about the ME Association staffing and structure have been moved to this thread. Posts relating to ME charities' reaction to the Reuters article have been moved to this thread.

This tweet appeared twice in my TL, retweeted by 2 (very big) accounts with no link with ME.

Yes, it's not the important media article taking on the PACE story we're waiting for, it's more against Liddle. But it's not bad and it's way better than the other articles that swallowed the Reuters' narrative. (and it links to @dave30th open letter and Hilda Bastian's piece.)

Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be by Frances Ryan Article S4ME thread

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/19/rod-liddle-disabled-people-hate-media-me

Specially when he, in reality, has already left the field a few years ago, but just wants to be more dramatic by claiming he's leaving because of twitter harassment.

And with easy patients, because despite what he keeps saying everywhere about the abuse he endures, that has nothing to do with the harsh work within a psychiatric ward, with psychotic patients.

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Indeed, you're right, hurt. But that does not change anything to what I said. "Because ME sufferers have been hurt by a bunch of bad psychiatrists, that doesn't mean we should throw the baby with the water. For many, many patients, psychiatry has been a life saver."

Because ME sufferers are not helped by a bunch of bad psychiatrists, that doesn't mean we should throw the baby with the water. For many, many patients, psychiatry has been a life saver.

Trial By Error: My Letter to Kate Kelland Read here. Edit: thread here.

Or preparing another article? :muted: