harassment

I often get the impression that Prof Simon Wessely, Prof Michael Sharpe and others from the Wessely School of psychiatrists prey on naive young journalists. I suspect these psychiatrists are using their skills in psychology to butter up the journalist, perhaps over a few beers in a bar, playing...

https://mrtopple.com/2019/03/18/the-media-is-waging-a-coordinated-war-against-chronically-ill-and-disabled-people/

The following posts have been moved from this thread. Looks like Radio 4 Today have picked it up & will be running it in the morning

To put it simply: we are falsely accused of unspecified misconduct. The vast majority of advocacy we do revolves about us BEGGING FOR HELP and pleading those responsible to understand what happens in real life. That we are accused of being fake patients, cultists, deranged lunatics, fascists...

Reuters: full article here: eta: link deleted please use this one http://archive.today/lwDNQ

see me-pedia page: https://www.me-pedia.org/wiki/Intimidation_of_PACE_critics These are not directly related to PACE but still applicable (IMO) Letter from Countess Mar to Professor Simon Wessely 4th December 2012 please cut and paste your relevant posts here.

How low is the bar for harassment to go? http://www.virology.ws/2019/02/05/trial-by-error-and-another-prebuttal/?fbclid=IwAR0eDWOvTVqQ-ZggHEg5ko90qnvcOEKGrEfYTPPqMUC3Q7kFt6OlRuyD2J4 David Tuller on the upcoming article.

https://valerieeliotsmith.com/2019/01/07/changing-the-narrative-1-exploring-a-new-approach-to-strategic-communications-in-the-me-community/

Data look dodgy but the authors won't share them with Nick. https://steamtraen.blogspot.com/2018/10/just-another-week-in-real-world-science.html?m=0 Blog post about this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924933817322605

Professor stops researching ME/CFS after intimidation (M. Sharpe) https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/hoogleraar-stopt-met-onderzoek-naar-mecvs-na-intimidaties Google translate...

Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11673-018-9866-5

Came across this article on twitter, and noticed its been retweeted by Michael Sharpe. I suppose he thinks this is the best he can do right now as far as support for his "cause" goes. https://quillette.com/2018/05/24/come-attention-institutional-complaints-procedures-weaponized/ This author of...

I recently asked the Metropolitan Police Service about the existence of an 'activist list', alleged in an article by the late Michael Hanlon, that appeared in the Sunday Times Magazine in May 2013. Putting it briefly, I was told in two replies that I needed to supply "further information". I...

I found this video while pootling about on the interweb - While it is a mash up and not a true representation of overall presentations involved in the video, there is a clear section where Esther Crawley is presenting to the MRC (in 2010) about her trial. There are lots of things to comment...

I've made a practice of not publicly calling out Esther Crawley in part because the issues we face are so much bigger than any one researcher. 26 tweets Embed Jennifer Brea @jenbrea Follow Read on Twitter And because I think I still entertain a fantasy of one day sitting down to lunch with...

A Controversial Therapy For ME Has Led To Claims Of Death Threats, Harassment, And Pseudoscience Article by Buzzfeed journalist Tom Chivers about the SMILE trial and the surrounding controversy The author talked to Parker, Crawley, Tuller, Edwards, an unnamed PACE author, and people who have...

15 December 2017 To whom it may concern at TEDxBristol: As an ME patient, it was with great interest that I watched Professor Esther Crawley's TEDxBristol talk "Disrupting Your View of ME" on 2 November 2017. Unfortunately, the contents of that talk did not seem to comply with the standards...

The science media centre has played an important role in stigmatising CFS patients, and anyone critical of PACE and related work, so it's always interesting to look at how they present themselves. Someone sent me this old report recently, and while it's not that interesting or relevant to us, I...

I wonder if anyone from Sense About Science fancies trying to defend the SMILE trial? The judging panel consisted of Professor Colin Blakemore FRS, Tracey Brown OBE (Sense about Science), Sir Philip Campbell PhD (Nature) Lord Rees of Ludlow OM FRS, Natasha Loder (the Economist). The judges sat...

Doctor wins 2017 John Maddox prize for countering HPV vaccine misinformation The Guardian Previous winners include the psychiatrist Simon Wessely, who faced death threats for his work on chronic fatigue syndrome and mental health, and Elizabeth Loftus, whose work on false memories propelled her...