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Interesting to note that the Vice Chancellor of Bristol University, Prof Hugh Brady received a Ph D for research in renal physiology.

Never mind the quality, feel the width.

It must be considered surprising that the University of Bristol appears not to show a similar level of concern for actions and behaviours towards people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis.

I had rather hoped that we might have someone here better qualified to comment. It is an idea in evolutionary biology created by Gould and Lewontin. A spandrel was originally an architectural term for part of an arch which is not structurally significant and which is available for...

We will soon be getting on to the fascinating subject of spandrels.

Thanks for spotting that, I had looked through the thread and seen that some of the recordings had gone.

It is probably worth recording here the fact that @JohnTheJack mentioned elsewhere that the videos of the talk seem to have been disappeared. Although this might be considered an act of kindness, it is unfortunate that certain words used are no longer so readily available.

There is something in that statement of May 2017 that is niggling me. "We have received confirmation from (the ethics committee) indicating that the work Professor Crawley and her team is undertaking in relation to the database analysis is categorised as Service Evaluation. This is supported by...

It is interesting to read the above FOI responses in conjunction with the statement dated May 2017 from the university in which the use of the present tense suggests the NOD was still alive and kicking...

I do not think they possess it , but it is a commonly held belief.

Does part of the problem in discussion of this subject come down to ambiguity over what it is that is supposedly doing the "behaving"? One can see some sort of sense, although in an imprecise way in need of further development, in an idea that a mechanistic body, devoid of free will or...

I am interested in the idea of sickness behaviour being purposely designed by evolution. It sounds rather teleological to me.

It seems to be becoming clear that the term "illness behaviour" is strongly associated with ideas of symptoms feigned to obtain secondary gain, whether or not that is the intention, or, indeed motivation, of proponents of the concept.

One has to wonder whether the harassment and threats narrative developed specifically to counter FOI requests: Dealing with vexatious requests 30 In some cases it will be readily apparent that a request is vexatious. 31 For instance the tone or content of the request might be so...

"Behaviour" seems to be a very malleable word. Sometimes it seems to be used where others might use "symptom", but it seems to imply the possibility that the behaviour is possibly voluntary and could be altered by an act of will.

Is there anyone else?

We seem to be getting a confused and confusing message. On the one hand we have the tales of the wish to emulate the heroic derring-do of her ancestors. On the other we have someone apparently fearful of a civil question from an academic. No Lysanders for her.

at 7.40 "The hair test promised social workers the certainty of science." This states the problem precisely. "Science" is only ever provisional.

This latest statement from Bristol gives a whole new meaning to "approval on the NOD".

One thing that struck me on looking-up some of these illnesses was the periodicity of the recurrence of symptoms. That certainly sounded familiar.