Esther Crawley

Sly Saint said:
Slides from a presentation (not sure when)
"What a journey! - Esther Crawley"
https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding-and-support/documents/Day 1 - Career journey Ester Crawley.pdf

eta: she started her career in CF/CFS because she was bored.
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I am bored, nothing can come in through the front door that will challenge me
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Hubris is rarely expressed this clearly. Great example of Dunning-Kruger as well. This is exactly the opposite attitude someone working in a life or death profession should adopt. This explains a lot. Don't get high on your own farts, people.
 
after she started in CFS she contacted Peter White and asked him how to win grant money - he became her mentor

she then asked Davey-Smith how could she access the ALSPAC dataset - he helped her with that

her NIHR talk is very very informative - she was bored, gave up research after PhD, started in CFS because of an advert to set up service
 
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When I saw this it struck me how similar this seems to the BPS people who never discuss, but simply bludgeon.
'Attack, attack, attack'
In a 2008 New Yorker profile, Stone explained one of his "rules" to Jeffrey Toobin, who is also CNN's chief legal analyst.
"Attack, attack, attack -- never defend," he said. "Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack."
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Barry said:
When I saw this it struck me how similar this seems to the BPS people who never discuss, but simply bludgeon.
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Yup. The parallels are obvious. The common foundation is hubris and shamelessness. Promote your idea, no matter what reality says. If you push it long enough, you can substitute reality (as long as you have friends in high places).

Before them few people were talking about fatigue. Now it's all people know, no matter how wrong it is, because of relentless self-promotion and silencing of all opposition. This isn't science or even medicine, it's mostly politics and ideology, the illusion of competence through performative delivery of useless services.
 
its not even just the idea ideology - its self promotion- lead cbt trials, get funded, get promoted---£1 million trial= professorship

listen to Wearden's professorial talk 'the mrc advertised funding so we went after it'

White wrote letters to mrc saying he will apply for money

and so on ...
 
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