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Draft 1: there's no point in spending a lot of time or effort into it! Dear Prof. Munafò Thank you for your prompt reply, and thank you for reading our briefing document. Of course I am disappointed in your response, but not surprised. It has been a common response from many, varied...

My initial thought is just to reply briefly, thanking him for his response, and just to point out that a reluctance to get involved in specific debates lies at the heart of the problem in the UK, and allows third-rate work to not only prosper, but to have influence.

I have received a quick but short reply, and it is pretty much as expected. Dear Graham, Thanks for your interest in the article! I do know something about the PACE trial from Twitter, but not much more than that. I’ll read the briefing note you attached. In general, I prefer to focus on...

I've made some more smaller changes, and sent it. I'll let you know what happens.

A hot, gassy object giving out deadly radiation? OK, @arewenearlythereyet and @Sean , motion carried!

Thanks, @MeSci . Duly amended, but there were two hypotheses in the PACE trial: fear was one and deconditioning the other. Thanks @akrasia for the link - duly added. Thanks @Trish - done!

Thanks both. I can't remember which American body decided that the studies using the Oxford criteria were to be dropped. Help please - brain decaying. @Sean : are you sure it is most notably UK research that is poor? I doubt if that is true. I've more or less added all your suggestions, but...

Well, I was thinking that version 2 would have been the final one, but then ridiculous optimism has always been my main characteristic! So here is version 3. It is shorter (a little!) and I have tried to put the demands at the front. I have dumped the bit about the criticisms of patients as I...

I wasn't going to do that: I have offered to "help out" if he wants it, but it is more of a personal letter than a formal statement. But as several of you think I should, I guess I should. You know I welcome your input! I thrive on criticism: it gives me a challenge to raise my game. No, it...

Sorry about the delay: here is version 2. I have tried to incorporate everyone's suggestions, but if you feel I have failed you please shout.

Thank you for that, @Esperanza , but the truth is that, at school, my role in the senior management meetings was to stir things up – as Head of Maths, I was in a pretty strong position to do that. It's why I was voted to be a teacher governor. I also needed to have much of what I wrote...

This is where I would disagree with you. If his reasoning is that he despairs of the current low standards and wants to set up a group of folk who do things properly, then he has a moral obligation to stand up and say where things are wrong.

I guess one thing is true: I may be rubbish at writing letters, but I'm very good at stirring people up and causing trouble. Mind you, that has always been my reputation! Our local ME group is meeting this afternoon, with short talks on POTS and EDR (some of our members have been re-diagnosed)...

Sasha, where would I be without you? Performing a binomial random walk down the pinboard of dreams? Rewrite 1 coming up tomorrow. I'd be much happier if I could sit down and converse with him.

He is setting himself up as someone who cares about scientific integrity, so really this is a challenge to him to show his worth. Will he step up to the mark, investigate the truth of the matter for himself and speak out, or will he just ignore me? I would love him to look into it, argue with...

Just to explain to those who aren't used to me, I tend to rant away, then folk tell me that I'm off topic, and help me focus. I really am useless otherwise at writing! I used to think that becoming a maths teacher would mean an end to all that struggling to write coherently. Instead I ended up...

OK, here is my first draft. It isn't in any way a scientific analysis, but is a personal rant. As you know, I'm only too happy to receive highly critical analysis and rewrite the whole thing, or send my own version and help in creating a group one. I have created a separate thread on it for...

Here is a copy of my first draft. Feel free to be as critical as you wish: I really do not get upset! I take it as a compliment that you are sufficiently interested to sort me out. It is a personal rant. It might be better to create a more neutral one in parallel: let me rant away, and let you...

Until any scientific expert proves otherwise, I am going to continue to believe that ME is a particular condition brought down upon people who thought they could think through things just to prove that they can't. Indirectly it supports the hypothesis that we are all still in the Matrix.

Am I right in thinking that they still haven't responded to Bob's criticisms? If so, is it worth adding a comment that their reputation is very much under question?