Michael Sharpe skewered by @JohntheJack on Twitter

How can we know how many times those promoting myths have won? We'd look back and now see it as reality having won in the long run.

 

Well he's answered @dave30th ...

https://twitter.com/user/status/999917611268755456


I think some of those in the SMC group would disagree about whether they did actually receive more medical treatment than they usually did (in the UK).

 

I think @dave30th is going to have a good day

 

Well on the one hand I'd tell him where to shove it because he doesn't get to limit the number of questions, attach conditions (including a promise to regard his answer as honest no matter what it is), tell lies about questions already having been answered, dismiss questions by labelling them loaded, pre-empt any future disagreement by labelling it as unsubstantiated (although that implies that we are allowed to respond with substantiated accusations of dishonesty and fraud) etc etc.

Does he seriously think this is what passes for engagement and scientific debate?

On the other hand keep asking him questions because he seems unable to resist revealing how thoroughly unpleasant, willfully deaf and condescending he is, a record of which might come in handy at some point in the future.

 

My OH wanted to ask him: "What's Peru's third largest export to the UK?"

 

That's easy, first is Paddington bear, second is blue duffle coats and third is marmalade sandwiches, but only if you are asking about darkest Peru.

 

Now he's just being rude.

https://twitter.com/user/status/999983549192245248

 

Doesn't matter. With each step he takes ...

 

LOL - I'd really love to know how it is he thinks he's deciding which questions are 'real' or 'curious', and which are 'accusations' or 'tricks'. He must have some internal rationale that he imagines makes sense, or else why would he be behaving like this publicly?

 

I would translate this as: I can't answer this question without appearing shifty, I don't want to answer this question, I don't like it and so I am going to say it isn't a very good, interesting or "curious" question.

I, personally, am very curious about this question and would like to hear the answer.

Edited : spelling

 

Hrm, no, I'd argue that it was he who failed in a most spectacular fashion right there. In public. On record.
So, well done Trish!!

 

He has previous used the word "incurious" to mean "showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity"
i.e., as an insult.

He doth not like forensic enquiry. I wonder why?

 

To say that it is not a curious question possibly appears to suggest that the questioner already knows the answer, and that by answering in that manner he does not think it necessary to correct any false impression.

 

Engaging with Sharpe is a waste of time, as I've discovered.

 

Well...it does no harm for his attitude and answers to appear in the public domain.

It could come back to haunt him soon. Hopefully.

 

Seems odd that none of his BPS colleagues have tapped him on the shoulder and told him to stop it. I reckon they're all hiding under a rock somewhere but haven't told him.

 

Its too evidence based.

 

You may have 'failed' to get a sane answer out of him Trish, but you actually succeeded in getting him to demonstrate yet more of his mind games, which I strongly suspect his response was, and most are. It comes across as word salad, which to me suggests your question hit the spot and he didn't like it. It's a pity the WaybackMachine does not archive this stuff properly, because we really need to be capturing this stuff. What is the best way to archive these twitter posts @Adrian, do you have any thoughts?