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That's what I meant. That's his "odd mistake", not anyone else's. I t doesn't look good.

It is strange that the date given on the slide for the Wearden et al paper is 1988 rather than 1998. Odd mistake. It would be interesting to know the date of those reported comments by Komaroff, which seem unhelpful to him.

One is reminded of the old joke about the man (his nationality is doubtless irrelevant), who when asked for directions to a certain place answered, "well, if I wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here".

Perhaps we could invite him to participate in a moderated thread to explain his views. There are quite a few quotes, fair quotes, that could do with explanation. One can understand a reluctance to join in the sort of shouting match which often develops, but he can never obtain the sort of...

How many renditions of "if you're happy and you know it , clap your hands" and "Oh, I'm H. A. P. P. Y." could a person endure in the space of two and a half hours? EDIT it all sounds quite "Brave New World"ish. One wonders when the soma gets passed around.

That's OK. There would seem to be sufficient evidence to require him to recuse himself from hearing any case involving ME.

Does the Balancing Activity help overcome the vertigo?

My unhelpful questions are How do supposedly serious people come up with such garbage? How can a group of people purport to study a condition for so long and still know nothing about it? When will someone pull the plug?

On reflection that figure of 36% showing EM seems closer to the figure of 18%, which Newby quoted in Bitten for the early Connecticut cases, than to the post Bb discovery figure of 90%. If that figure of 36% is representative for distinct groups it does leave the way open for a lot of...

Is it not unhelpful to be doing epidemiological studies referring to Bb sensu lato, when it appears to be recognised that the B afzelii and B garinii seem to cause a different range of symptoms? Would it be fair to say that afzelii is more associated with EM and garinii with neuroboreliosis...

I have been thinking about this further, and I may have misled anyone who took any notice. It would' of course, have been entirely wrong to refer to the thirty plus years' experience of Royal Free patients and there advisors. Were they not a bunch of hysterics? SW himself had written on the...

I think hat previously I did not include the reference to Ramsay. It is significant that the bit of the ME Action Campaign leaflet to which objection was taken is broadly in line with the advice of someone with in excess of thirty years experience in the field. What was Wessely's expeience in...

I think I have probably quoted this before, but may be wrong. I usually am. In the book Chronic Fatigue and its Syndromes 1997 p286 Wessely et al seem to have a number of people in their sights including Ramsey, ME Action Campaign and Colby. They say this The beneficial effect of rest and the...

Lyme borreliosis is a tick borne infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. I thought that infection in Europe was often caused by B afzelii. EDIT typo

Yes, but there are dangers in taking pragmatic decisions if one conceals information from, or misleads, others who might be affected. You have to hope that all turns out well.

There seems to be little hope for effective preventative action. It is reported this morning by Sky News that the British passengers on the cruise ship who were flown home were told that all had tested negative before being allowed onto the flight. There was some surprise at the speed of the...

You know that we are on the same side. I just think that it is necessary to be aware of contrary arguments and express the criticism in appropriate terms.

The NHS is buying quack therapies from quack experts based on the definitions they all use. It seems to be, as always, a matter of caveat emptor

She would only be doing what everyone else has done and created definitions to suit her own views. She probably has as much right to do that as anyone else. There is no obligation to agree with her

Our dear Prime Minister employs colourful language to describe such funding. Money "spaffed up the wall". They have some strange customs at Eton.