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Terrible article, as regards ME. Sympathetic to the lady, but extremely unrealistic view of ME. She clearly doesn't have ME. ETA: Added 'as regards ME' to 'Terrible article', which I should have done in the first place, oops, sorry.

Why are they called Sense About Science? Nonsense About Non-Science would be more apropos. Why is all this rubbish just reiterated uncritically and without any sort of reality check? Does it never, ever occur to these people that if there are so many complaints about fraud and misconduct...

Wow, amazing that one man can be responsible for so much idiocy over such a long period of time. Thank you for all your hard work on putting together this compilation, it really is compulsive trainwreck reading matter. It would be funny if it wasn't so harmful. Super-ironic considering that...

Yes, what a great 'own goal'! :rofl:

So, Bristol U admits that a cease and desist letter was never sent, thereby exposing Crawley in a lie - but, they contacted Tuller's employers at senior level about him behind his back?? Charming.

I'm so sorry you experienced a similar backwards-moving scenario to what I did. And I'm sure there are tons more folks who have experienced the same issues. It is mindboggling how all ME-related medical knowledge regressed after the 1980s. Well, we have the two clowns who wrote the two...

Or at least 'heavily flu-like' or 'the worst hangover you ever had', as newspaper items on ME used to say back in the 1980s when I got it. AFAIK it was never described as 'fatigue' or 'tiredness' then. Doctors actually accepted it as a physical illness (although some did think it imaginary) in...

The irony of this coming from the SMC is just staggering, LOL. :rofl:

I do wish people would stop calling it 'chronic fatigue' which is an entirely different condition from 'chronic fatigue syndrome'; the misnomer just causes confusion and perpetuates misinformation. But that said, yes, it is an excellent article! So good to see some truthful stuff about the...

The video is still at the link given in this post: https://www.s4me.info/index.php?threads/esther-crawley-talk-at-tedxbristol-thurs-2nd-bristol-disrupting-your-view-of-me.286/page-6#post-11328 . Probably just the copies re-uploaded to YouTube have disappeared.

Yes, absolutely. I was going to say the same in my earlier post but in much worse language, ha ha. When I became ill, I was working at a physically demanding job involving hauling computer kit from site to site, going to the gym twice a week, and had a very physically active life all round...

"Gradually increasing the intensity of your exercise over time may help reduce your hypersensitivity to exercise, just like allergy shots gradually reduce a person's hypersensitivity to a particular allergen." ??? What now? An allergy-like "hypersensitivity to exercise"? That's one I haven't...

Echoing what Valentijn said above. Fatigue is not the main symptom in ME/CFS. For example, I never feel particularly tired or fatigued, but very, disablingly, ill (flu-like) and that is the case for most of us. I truly rue the day that a panel of doctors in the 1980s decided to invent the...

Excellent letter!

Sounds good, but clicking the link to the ruling leads to a '404 Page Not Found' error page: https://www.asa.org.uk/non-compliant/kathy-kent.html . A search on Lightning Process on the ASA site just turns up a short piece referring to the 2010 and 2012 judgments...

Exactly the same for me, except that I'm moderate-severe and my cortisol test result is allegedly normal.

Ugh, someone pass the sick bag. :yuck: Did anyone else catch the irony, when discussing some traumatic aspects in his childhood: Hmm... In all, a lot of hot air from someone who clearly loves being the centre of attention. And playing victim. :emoji_zzz: +1000

Hard to choose for me, too, the first choice being the nearest. Started out severe, got progressively worse for the next 8 years, then improved notably when I was able to get treated for Lyme Disease two years ago at a private clinic (NHS wouldn't do anything for me whatsoever, except to offer...

Oh, this video clip is wonderful! So pleased to see tables deservedly turning at long last and ridicule being given where it's due. Hoping that more news outlets will follow suit.

TBH, I can't see even that being an advantage for us - the therapists would simply spin it to make us look like we answered Strongly Disagree to everything because we're 'depressed', wouldn't they? Argh, we just can't win. That's probably just about right! And the emoticon you want is...