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When you consider the definition of "peer"- Peer definition is - one that is of equal standing with another : equal; especially : one belonging to the same societal group especially based on age, grade, or status- it is hardly surprising that, in this field, peer review would be inadequate.

It might reasonably be thought that those who elected councillors with disabilities were aware of the ways in which they might vote on contentious issues, and elected them nevertheless. The decision seems not merely to disenfranchise the councillors but also those who voted for them. If they...

...and they wonder why so many innocent people get convicted.

Should any council tax payer be blocked because any decision might have an impact on the amount payable?

I wonder what the intended readership of BMJ Paediatrics is. How many 16 year olds are aware of the journal, and how many read it? Do many 16 year olds wake up one morning and decide, unprimed, to write a piece for the BMJ. Does the priming have to be done before application of the gloss?

@dave30th Did you find this for Artemis Coaching. It is apparently in Leighton Buzzard which is Bedfordshire, so not Suffolk, but it does look a likely candidate. Artemis - Homepage (artemiscoaching.me.uk)

It would have been helpful if the author had cited some sources. We might have learnt from whom he had learned that he could reasonably generalise beyond his or her personal experience.

I suppose it all depends on what is meant by "new" and "disease". The very obvious vocal damage looks new for typical ME, but everything else looked the same. Is this sufficient distinction to create a new disease? And should that be "illness" anyway? It may all just be about words.

He does appear in divers places.

What changes between 2 July and 11 July to precipitate this further letter?

That Wiki entry gives Meehl criticising The spun-glass theory of the mind: The belief that the human organism is so fragile that minor negative events, such as criticism, rejection, or failure, are bound to cause major trauma—essentially not giving humans, and sometimes patients, enough credit...

Meehl looks to be an interesting character: Meehl founded, along with Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars, the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science, and was a leading figure in philosophy of science as applied to psychology.[4] Early in his career Meehl was a proponent of Karl Popper's...

The double thinking behind the childhood trauma as a cause of adult illness is nicely illustrated. The psychiatric lobby rejected the association between CFS and a prior viral infection on the basis that everyone was subjected to numerous viruses every year, and the apparent relationship was...

Other orifices are available.

The treatment was almost certainly stitched up in2001 in the document only available to members of the IBC agreed between, inter alia, Axa Insurance, Royal and Sun Insurance and Prof Arthur Cott of McMaster and Prisma Health.

I have always thought that if you fall into the hands of a psychiatrist in the US you do at least have the chance of being declared cured once the insurance runs out.

The anthropological view as espoused by, inter alia, Kleinman and which is suggested by this recent writer is interesting. I was refreshing memory on another matter and came upon this in the CIBA conference book. McCluskey: How then do you explain the fact that most of us here would agree that...

If only we could join the \reformation and be rid of the old dogmas...

I thought the main difference was that our rejection of a psychiatric label represented stigmatisation of those who accepted it.

The question is: did the system work, or did it fail? Was there really no other way of achieving this outcome?