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hmm, I'm starting to think having read her manifesto thingyme on dropbox that, as has been the case, ME was a stepping stone for the 'all Long term conditions' and more given that the discredited ME research of PACE is what is used as the evidence for them having branched out into that broader...

I wouldn't believe a word that came out of her mouth or even a memory she has put in her own head to be true reading some of the things she has written over the years. It is filled with utter constructivism, and this woman would certainly concoct or pinch someone's story in order to try and sell...

Yes this is really quite warped stuff. But what did she mean by the following phrase? "(This weekend there are 100s of thousands of women in a state of anxiety about whether their chosen pill will kill them. The women on these pills in the Party will be more likely to think "that's a good...

I'm loving the truth being spouted but starting to wonder whether this is a 'I am Spartacus' moment too? Would work beautifully as a twitter strategy (if enough good scientists are in) on that quote..

Anyone know why they had a 'party name' or pseudonym of Fiona Foster when she was writing for certain things rather than just using Fiona Fox?

Just wikipedia'd her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Fox There are about an equal number of suggestions along the following lines as there are claims of her being a science saviour: "Fiona Bernadette Fox OBE (born 12 November 1964) is a British writer. She is the director of the Science...

Just make sure you throw in a few of her most boring, yawn, iterative, heard it before quotes, claims and accusations (maybe a table of how many times she says x, y, z) - to give a feel of what she is about and to summarise her 'gist' so they don't waste their dosh or precious time reading the...

Yeah, but more importantly from reading comments sections in newspapers most readers actually think the issue is that the media don't look at the methodology of any science so are hoodwinked into being editorials for those who write PR in their impact sections. The politics distraction she's...

"Twenty years ago, when I set up the Science Media Centre, researchers were notably absent from the nation’s airwaves. Frenzies about Frankenstein foods, designer babies and MMR may have gripped the media but most scientists put their heads down and tried to avoid controversy. The price was the...

Side note: I've seen docs from this source before and am curious what the background is on the author and where this came from/how it started (given the level of detail I assume there has ahd to be a lot of collating info from horses mouth etc as has to be done by some today too, so am curious...

You are correct that they obviously sought out the controversial individuals and then pushed it for all it was worth. That's not reporting on a controversy it is creating and stoking it, by getting those who wouldn't ever be listened to and running PR, it isn't far off a political campaign (I'm...

I've had a quick scan through the second link but just read the first few comments from him. They seem OK in context - could you point me to the bits where there are issues?

:) totally get too that reducing ME to 'symptoms' has been misleading in too many ways. So the 'thrust' of your point I think - in that this needs to be ME-specific whatever it is (and lots of symptoms are just side-effects of the underlying energy/PEM etc with us). So I'm very much caveating...

Agree it would be good to be clear. I do (and know others too), but it wasn't discovered in the 'CFS diagnosis' process - so chance is the tests just aren't being done and the disease correlations aren't being checked for (I imagine asthma is the only one that is a 'flag' so the others can be...

Interesting. I very much agree on the second part. I disagree on the first bit, and hope that it includes things like B12 and is looking at anything that might help some ie the idea that there could be packages worth trying - and I can list quite a few relevant situations where this being...

Was trying not to chuckle at some of these - just don't realise why the rest of the world won't see them as deviously ridiculous too. On a side note re the oxygen one... A few months ago I came across as I was following a link for something else to a local hyperbaric chamber that is for a...

I suspect 'the thing' is that headway on things that help, and I mean the PSP already licensed meds stuff rather than 'management strategies' that involve asking others to be considerate, needs to come pretty quickly. Along with sorting out the info on the illness. It's slowly reducing the gap...

Agreed. Post-hoc, particularly with small numbers and grand conclusions, is basically 'fishing for effects' in the hope of tenuously linking them to what you might want to believe.

Sorry just amended typo above - it was a 25g ie gram pill used in the lactose intolerance experiment (not 25mg, which I keep still automatically typing by mistake). So it is feasible that at one pill could contain enough to trigger a breath test - and this was repeated over 28 days. or maybe...

There is a book review of the following in the times: Life Time: The New Science of the Body Clock, and How It Can Revolutionize Your Sleep and Health by Russell Foster, Times link (I'm sorry I haven't done share token as not on the right device/can't work it out right now)...