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Arrogance in thinking they have a superior insight, and cowardice in refusing to admit that they haven't.

All I can say is that I hope they are on the right track. Otherwise, a big waste of time and money.

*cough*bullshit*cough*

Stopped reading there.

This decades long and completely avoidable catastrophe needs serious punishments for the main offenders. A clear message needs to be sent to anybody thinking about trying this shit again. The PACE/BPS cult could not have got away with this on their own. Not even close. They needed sustained...

Only because the objective outcomes didn't deliver. If the objective outcomes had supported the subjective outcomes, and especially if the correlation was strong, the PACE and BPS crowd would have been screaming that from the rooftops, and rightly so. But the objective didn't support the...

Just another spiv from the old boys' network who didn't do his due diligence. And once they have made their public stand, particularly in the manner he has, they cannot walk it back without serious loss of face and reputation. This is how the PACErs and BPS cult operate. Co-opt, compromise, and...

Come on down, Lord Winston.

Over to you, Sir Simon... . . . . . . . . . . . *crickets*

Bastard bolshie patients. :p And sometimes literal physical self-preservation.

One could be excused for thinking that nothing fundamental has changed in the UK, and being more than a little annoyed and disheartened by it. :grumpy:

MEsplaining: when an 'expert explains' ME, and how to live with it, to somebody already living with it.

@rvallee

Desperation.

That paper is irrefutable proof that they were way ahead of the evidence from the start. And PACE is irrefutable proof that were never had any intention of paying attention to the evidence.

I think you misspelled 'decade'. :D ;) More seriously, have you considered pulling together all your work on this into a book, summarising the whole show into a more readable narrative for the average person not informed of the story, including a bit of the history, and its broader impacts...

Games with words. Sophistry. They are so good at it that they fooled themselves.

Suggested by who, is the first question to ask here. If one were to ask what is the most likely outcome of mistreating a group of people in the way we have been mistreated, and for 3 decades, it would be exactly the situation we have before us today.

Newer version available: https://f1000research.com/articles/7-1325/v2

Either physically attend, with sufficient cognitive function to engage productively. Or sufficient cognitive function to engage productively while working from home. Definitely this. My capacity to learn and remember fell dramatically when I got sick.