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It's not just the quackery, they have an organised and coordinated PR campaign against patients which is still ongoing. I'm sure that meets the definition of harassment.

Surely it is us who have been harassed by psychs with no understanding of our illness advancing their careers without a thought for our well-being? They are using our illness for their own self-aggrandisement without regard to the cost which we are bearing. Having no medical answers is bad...

... because the peer review process was working perfectly before? It's just been recently overwhelmed? I'm not sure "scientists worldwide" are that gullible, they just have to carry on the charade if they want to get anywhere. The whole system is broken, and Horton is a part of it.

She's been a physiotherapist for a quarter of a century, and in all that time never come across an M.E. patient?

I don't wish to be immodest, but surely if intelligence is negatively associated with FSS that proves that my symptoms cannot be FSS? And furthermore Seeing as one of our major symptoms is brainfog, haven't they got things the wrong way round in the case of ME? They may as well write a paper...

Professor of psychosomatic medicine calls patients stupid. What are the chances? Just call them muppets why don't you?

Didn't work for me, I tried allergy shots for 2 years and I still sneeze when the hazel's out. It was bugger all use. So it would be quite a fair analogy actually, except that allergy shots rarely leave people wheelchair bound and unable to tolerate light or sound.

Free entertainment from those clowns again. Clare Geralda complaining about someone being patronising, SW complaining about someone being over-certain and unquestioning. I'm going to have to start ordering my irony meters in bulk if they carry on like this. Where are Sharpe and White? They can...

Helen Nicholls seems genuine. Many people believe that they have been cured of various ailments by homeopathy, reiki, etc etc, because at the time of their improvement that was the thing they happened to be trying. Statistically there will be some people who improve whilst doing GET, just as...

Nice to see that in a mainstream news article.

:grumpy: Meh. s'pose. It's certainly now looking as if the journalist is on-side. I'll continue to reserve judgement on the newspaper. My own brand of CBT (Curmudgeonly Bugger Therapy) has served me very well for the last 6 years and led to significant improvement. I'll not be giving it up easily.

Yes I thought about Rod Liddle's article in the last few days for some reason. It's great to see these articles today, but really they are no more than we are due, very late, and still contain horrendous GET nonsense. For a long time the Times & co have been a big part of the problem, and even...

Hmm. Reporters and editors have a lot of leeway in deciding who to interview, what to include, and how to report it. If they choose to reproduce harmful filth I'd like to think there'd be some accountability or sense of responsibility. I did wonder whether the "spokeswoman" was included as an...

Whereas there is a mountain of evidence of cases of pediatricians deliberately fabricating illness in relation to ME. Come on journalist, do a proper job, you're nearly there.

Very nice of the Times to have an ME blitz, but I wish they'd pace themselves at 2-per-week in accordance with my free article limit.

Unfortunately not: But the spokeswoman (as in "let me put a spoke in your wheel") is the only person in the whole article who gets to remain anonymous, presumably because of the threat to her life from ME militant activists.

Thanks, I've reached my 2-article free limit for this week.

What next - a takedown of the SMC?

An odd article which manages to go from brilliant at the start to horrendous at the end. Must be someone's concept of "balance". A few trolls in the comments section as well.

Fluff. Sleep hygiene, healthy eating and pop psychology (usually introduced with "we know that ... "), have 5 portions of fun a day ... mindfulness ... notice the beauty of the world around you ... Talks about acceptance and commitment, ie accepting what you can't change, but then it turns out...