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Garbage article from The Times that uses ME as a punching bag and misrepresents everything. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/my-mother-munchausens-and-me-by-helen-naylor-review-7v8ts3w77 However, starting abruptly in 1991, when Elinor was in her thirties and Naylor was seven, her mother...

Jennie Jacques on living with ME: ‘I am a shadow of my former self physically’ , The Times, August 18 2021 by Sean O' Neill As her 30th birthday approached, Jennie Jacques was on the up and on the verge of a breakthrough to big-screen stardom. The British actress had played the leading part of...

Column (paywalled) by James Marriott in The Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lets-end-the-stigma-of-psychosomatic-illness-whfdlwhph Anyone know whether that 'a third of outpatients...' is right? Or where it's from? @dave30th perhaps? I think the article shows what we're up against...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-sleeping-beauties-by-suzanne-o-sullivan-review-29kq7wdtb Interesting article by Whipple on a book by Suzanne Sullivan. Essentially Whipple accepts Sullivan's claim that there are illnesses due to the idea of having the illness. The clearest example is...

The NHS is facing a “post-viral tsunami” with thousands of people struggling to recover from Covid-19 and experiencing symptoms of the debilitating condition ME, a leading medical researcher said yesterday. Paul Garner, an expert in infectious diseases at the Liverpool School of Tropical...

Times Letters: Research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/times-letters-research-into-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-w3scg6f9l

Sign-up/paywall, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-taking-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-seriously-chronic-condition-5m0dw5tv7

Sign-up/Paywall, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-families-accused-of-child-abuse-np968v9dt Mod note: See post #13 for the full page of articles

The Guardian: 'Church' to offer 'miracle cure' despite FDA warnings against drinking bleach https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/19/church-group-to-hold-washington-event-despite-fda-warnings-against-miracle-cure

The article is behind a paywall but if you sign up for an account you can get two articles free each week. I have attached screenshots of the first half of the article to give a flavour of its content.

Paywalled: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gut-instinct-leads-enterobiotix-scientists-to-a-microbiome-wonder-drug-8fw8k0t3d It's partly publicity for an event being sponsored by the paper:

This article in The Times 'Untouchable "Diva Doctors" ...' https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/untouchable-diva-doctors-bully-staff-and-put-patients-at-risk-xgk8kc6nt

https://www.meaction.net/2019/03/25/a-response-to-dr-mark-porters-article-about-me-in-the-times/ I actually started writing the article as a post on S4ME but as it got longer I decided to submit it as an article for #MEAction. If you feel I’ve overlooked anything I should have mentioned, or...

Sunday Times publishes three readers accounts of their personal experiences of ME. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine/style/readers-stories-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-me-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-7ghbwdkbj And at the bottom Shame they don't tackle their own ignorance..

I'd put this in a different section, like Advocacy Alerts, or something, but outside of 'ignore this' I'm not sure what action the alert would entail. A lot of people probably should avoid this, as this guy is, along with Edward Shorter, arguably the most abrasive pundit who's ever written a...

Sign-up wall at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-ve-forgotten-the-vital-need-to-convalesce-qlrnzl95d

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/the-sunday-times-magazine/how-it-feels-to-be-exhausted-24-hours-a-day-28cx59bn9 I think this is a really good article! Written by someone who became ill in 2016. ‘Two years ago, Joseph Luke went from healthy to housebound when he was struck down by ME. He...

Here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/women-need-the-playing-field-levelled-on-health-outcomes-vgg0fv0zk When women do seek out help, they are frequently disbelieved. My favourite diagnosis is something called “Medically Unexplained Symptoms” (Mus). This is a catch-all phrase for things...

This is the kind of article I hate. Trying to be sympathetic but perpetuating the psychological myth. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kirsty-young-must-go-softer-on-herself-during-break-from-desert-island-discs-2pkjdbfbn Includes: I worry, though, that Young’s affliction is a form of...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/pick-up-thy-bed-and-work-out-gps-give-rest-cure-its-marching-orders-792w52z38 Under the NHS-wide Moving Medicine project, due to begin on September 10, GPs, nurses and other health professional will be given scripts to help them persuade patients to...