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We can feel secure in the knowledge that any failures will result in the resignation of a special advisor.

If you find yourself slowing down it may only be Apple altering the software.

I m struggling to think how these ideas for neuro-linguistic programming could have been arrived at. Any ideas anyone?

And this after the child was allegedly sent home from school one day because of the illness. Whatever happened to individual judgment in this country. The grumpy old f..... are about this morning.

Have the BBC been asked to comment, invited to say who is responsible for decisions of this nature and whether they respond to representations from interested parties before making decisions?

This seems an appropriate point at which to introduce something I started on an other thread. The ethical and legal frameworks are reasonably clear for a normal doctor/patient relationship when the patient is referred to a consultant by his GP. In situations where a doctor is effectively...

A thought has occurred to me. It may already have occurred to others. My attention is intermittent. The trial no doubt has details of attendance of the 3 day courses. It no doubt has answers to questions, and possibly access to records, which may or may not show improvement in some over a...

There was certainly an awareness of Wessely and Chalder, probably by about 1989. The other names that come to mind from the period were Thomas from London and Edwards from Liverpool. Then there were Pelosi and David who co authored a paper with Wessely. Some of them seemed to go quiet, but who...

The advice seems bizarre. Anyone contemplating contact or collision sports within a month of the illness becoming apparent, and having to be advised against it, cannot have had much of an illness. And what do they mean by "exclusion from work or school"? Do they mean there is no need to...

That reply tells us all we need to know. On checking the link it is interesting to see in the "Application plain English summary", that the Plain English is not plain enough for me to understand. It says that "children with CFS/ME have fatigue that stops them going to school or doing other...

@Adrian makes a good point but perhaps does not go far enough. What she said was: "Orchestrated and well funded harassment campaigns against researchers working in climate change and tobacco control are well documented. Some hard-line opponents to other research, such as that on nuclear fallout...

I am unable to comment on Youtube, but I do wish someone would ask rhetorically whether Crawley's use of the Sunday Times image is to be taken as evidence that she has suggested "that ME, the chronic fatigue illness, is all in the mind". The purport of the article according to the newspaper was...

In favour of the article is the declaration of the conflict of interest.

Mention of Elsevier reminded me of that famous late-night swimmer Robert Maxwell, and this article from the Guardian is a useful overview of the business model and history. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science Is the...

@Jonathan Edwards Sorry to trouble you. That response is very interesting. I suspect most of us who have been referred to specialists will, at some time, have been asked whether parents or siblings have suffered from anything similar, and will generally have answered "no". Do you think that...

I am not at all sure even about "science-based" and "evidence-based". It allows for the passing off of ideas based on poor science and unpersuasive evidence. Poor evidence may still be evidence good enough for some.

Is there in some parts, of the world, a tradition of publishing spoof papers at this time of year?

Is this a misreading of my comment, which referred to clichés, not cliques?

Playing devil's advocate for a moment, one might think that a ban on certain words might be extreme, but discouragement of their use might be entirely appropriate. Some of the terms "banned" are frequently merely clichés, avoiding any thought as to how the terms are being used, what might be...

The spelling.