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The new editor Alan Rusbridger will have been targeted and networked by SW. Despite his journalistic credentials, his degree in English won't have insulated him against BPS propaganda.

Is that Lacan'tian?

@chrisb I think you'd enjoy Brannigan The rise and fall of social psychology (2004) which demonstrates that most of the received wisdom - Milgram, Hawthorne, Pygmalion etc - is actually unvalidated myth. It doesn't include biosoclal psychology but Myslobodsky The fallacy of mother's wisdom: A...

The Guardian has a long history of malign commentary on ME. An example of SMC psychatrists playing the victim card: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/aug/21/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-myalgic-encephalomyelitis Wessely's assistant Ben Goldacre was the Guardian science go-to at that time...

The "sick role" was a sociological construct, and this conference seems located in the "health sciences", ie, the general application of social science to medicine. Mechanic et al were early exponents. Part of the BPS failure in ME comes from substituting social psychology (eg "locus of...

Eg, the MRC decision to fund BPS and not biomedical research from the early '90s. I've attached a generally favourable review from Contemporary Sociology. It pointed out the naivety of the conference's belief that there is a monolithic "biomedical" position in need of correction. It also...

Indeed, it's policy based 'evidence'.

Right on cue: A year after Wuhan alarm, China seeks to change Covid origin story Reports in state media signal an intensifying propaganda effort to place the birth of the virus in other countries ... Chinese scientists have even submitted a paper for publication to the Lancet – although it has...

Patients are not to be believed - except when answering unbelievable questionnaires.

Elsevier are issuing in parts an "evidence based" medical textbook that is demonstrably out of date. Ironic, when the prime mover for EBM in the early '90s was the reaction against a medical curriculum based on textbooks which were never up to date.

Perry's article appears in a section called PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF GENERAL MEDICINE A companion article: Functional disorders and ‘medically unexplained physical symptoms’ https://www.medicinejournal.co.uk/article/S1357-3039(20)30228-0/fulltext...

The James Lind Alliance "brings patients, carers and clinicians together in Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs) to identify and prioritise the Top 10 unanswered questions or evidence uncertainties that they agree are the most important." https://www.jla.nihr.ac.uk/ The ME PSP is very recent...

Kudos to @Jonathan Edwards, the current NICE reviewers and @Brian Hughes. Broadening the attack from ME specifics to BPS research in general is absolutely essential. It reminds me of a conversation I had many years ago with a coordinator of one of the Cochrane nodes that developed reviews across...

Don't feed the psychiatrolls...

Cue BPS claims that adverse events during GET are a nocebo effect...

Well done & thanks, Suzy.

Bad science is easier to deal with than bad faith.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) unlawfully prevented thousands of disabled students from trying to claim the benefits they needed to pay for essential living costs for seven years, a court has found. In the latest in a lengthy line of blunders by DWP, the high court concluded that...

I thought White had retired. Edit: Wasn't that given as a reason for refusing to release further PACE data?

I'll second that. For critics who've been accused of conflicts of interest for having or caring for ME, it's a pleasure to read a sustained independent assault on the poor logic and faulty trial conduct that GET/CBT has offered. It will definitely have helped sway this guideline, and I hope it...