Further thoughts on the No 10 intervention. It looks as though it might have been intended as a fairly non-committal response to a question...
It is interesting to try to envisage the process which must have occurred to obtain the endorsement from Downing Street. It can hardly be like...
Not another dodgy dossier.
Be reasonable. It's only the BBC. Can't expect the same standards as S4ME.
Was there not a trial in the mid 1990s which suggested that there was no benefit? That may have only related to Efamol Marine, but the main...
They clearly cannot have read Wessely's book upon clinical trials then.
Not sure he would use satire. more likely that he is "two stops short of Dagenham", as they say.
It depends what you mean by "is". ETA I am not convinced that banning metaphor as a means of linguistic communication would necessarily be helpful.
I think this is where many of our problems arise. I recall it being said that studies on fibromyalgia in the 1980s or early 90s appeared to show...
I think one would need to be cautious about criticism. He was clearly trying to describe something other than "depression" and having to resort to...
It seems that exercise will increase muscle mass, but for some reason, in some cases, particularly between the ears.
One presumes tat some of those who would not speak received settlements including confidentiality clauses-which would make it all the worse.
Who can forget his famous: The recognition of PVFS by the Department of Health can be viewed as an attempt to legitimise the sick role, and thus...
All one can say is, good luck with finding a representative sample of volunteers for that.
Yesterday, when looking for quotes for another thread, I came across this little gem from our old friend Goldberg, and his language appears eerily...
That quote came from Chronic Fatigue and its Syndromes-Simon Wessely, Matthew Hotopf and Michael Sharpe @p324 chapter 15.2 Chronic fatigue and the...
I rather like this, but cannot see how it could be used: Most sufferers from chronic fatigue believe, whether rightly or wrongly, that the...
There is plenty of relevant material in the chapter "Chronic Fatigue and the fear of mental illness" in the Wessely, Sharpe, Hotopf book but the...
His earlier response made me wonder whether he had misunderstood the criticism, was deliberately misconstruing it, or whether he was responding to...
Sorry for the delay in responding. I had past my "use by" time, when I saw the post. The reference given by @Invisible Woman is correct. This...
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