I probably bore you with my suspicious mind. I apologise. Ido however wonder in whose name the application for access to the records was made. I...
...BBC science and medical correspondents going back at least to Geoff Watts. The SMC. Sorted. EDIT I wonder how they reported on McEvedy and Beard.
I've posted an update on Twitter re your post.
...as saying that no-one at Atlanta had ever heard of McEvedy and Beard. I presume that the Gordon is Parish, and that this must have come soon...
Just dug out an old article with a reply from (I suspect the same) Walshe. If you want I can post it on the RFH account.
On reflection that editorial or leading article, whatever it is, looks like a positioning paper and, judging by the difficulties Dave has...
We are all familiar with the two McEvedy and Beard papers which appeared in the January !970 BMJ. Less familiar is the third paper published...
Interesting to see in the thesis the suggestion that one person remained ill for a year. This was claimed in the 1970 papers but it is clear from...
...fit the SIR disease model, we demonstrate that the McEvedy and Beard hysteria hypothesis is mathematically incorrect.' Article here Thread here...
from Byron Hydes Little red book
The difficulty which this argument faces is that a number of cases were excluded from the paper on the basis that they were thought to be...
From Byron Hydes Little red book https://www.imet.ie/imet_documents/BYRON_HYDE_little_red_book.pdf
...like a very elegant approach. On the one hand, you have McEvedy and Beard who simply read the medical notes from the 1955 epidemic - choosing...
In 1970, two clinicians, McEvedy and Beard [McEvedy CP, Beard AW (1970) Royal Free Epidemic of 1955: A Reconsideration The British Medical Journal...
...that this omission was an error because it enabled McEvedy and Beard in their subsequent study of the outbreak to establish their theory that...
...what there was was an epidemic of diagnosis. That's pure McEvedy and Beard. Who knew that their influence spread so far? Oh, the lessons to...
Nice to see that in a mainstream news article.
...1980's it was largely from those who believed in the McEvedy and Beard theory of hysteria or conversion disorder as the cause of Royal Free...
In the 1970s, we had McEvedy and Beard, who proposed that the 1955 Royal Free ME outbreak was mass hysteria. These guys did not interview or even...
...ideas. At what would you assess the probability of McEvedy and Beard coming to the conclusions which they did prior to "discovery" of their...
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