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It makes you wonder how he ever found time to listen to patients.

I think he sees it as his right to continue with to reign. Those spell cheques.

Two decades before PACE! Perhaps I had better repost the link to that 1987 paper on mass hysteria.

Interesting to see that SW regards us as a powerful special interest group. God knows how we would fare were we weak.

He is clearly an exponent of foreign tactics. "Reculer pour mieux sauter."

Why do psychiatrists bother fighting with us when there are so many people in need of their services?

It will be noted that Dillon recorded the characteristic relapsing/remitting condition continuing in some cases for a number of years.

I realise that. Archer, who quoted it, did not distinguish, and he would appear to have been quite influential upon later work. EDIT I know that some distinguish epidemic from sporadic cases, but it is quite clear that in many of the outbreaks the virus was endemic in the local population.

The disease has high predilections for medical personnel and for those in social classes 1 and 2 and only rarely occurs in more than one member of a family; these facts may be seen as further evidence of its hysterical nature. One report of an epidemic emphasizes the need to limit the number of...

@Carolyn Wilshire I think we will all be pleased to here what you say. Do you think the editor could be prevailed upon to give an indication as to the length of prior warning of the date of publication which he would normally expect to give to an author?

I am sorry that my thoughts generally occur to me long after a conversation has moved on. We have now moved on from the mental or physiological aspects. However I think it worth reminding people of how the debate originally arose and why the debate is so, in the currently fashionable term...

Are you thinking of Margaret Cook former wife of the labour minister Robin Cook?

Interesting that, isn't it? You mount a campaign against campaigning. Clearly it's OK if done by the right people.

Presumably they are dependent upon their editors.

I think it is generally good, but that the history does not go back nearly far enough. The time that needs looking at in detail is 1993 when Peter Lilley brought in John LoCascio, and "sang" his little song to the party conference.

There is a very strange comment in this And symptoms are made worse by activity, at least that's what the patients' experience is. Does she doubt this? Is it not her experience of patients reactions? If she thinks it untrue, what are the patients she sees suffering from.

Look on the bright side . If she roundsup and follows everyone discussing ME and everyone discussing glyphosate, she won't have much time for writing.

I don't understand Twitter. Is not the person being followed automatically informed at the outset? Shouldn't everyone be aware of the fact that they are being followed?

I think she did the best she possibly could with the material presented to her for presentation.

According to the Wesseley, Hotopf, Sharpe book "Matthew Hotopf's earliest exposure to the field was personal. As a medical student at Bart's he suffered glandular fever and was enrolled into Peter White's study. (White P, Thomas J, Grover S, Kangro H,. Clare A The existence of a fatigue...