Michael Sharpe skewered by @JohntheJack on Twitter

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  1. Barry

    Barry Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Funnily enough, it's not just the media MS. The current NICE guideline CG53 also seems to suffer from the same confusion ...
    https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/Cg53

    I cannot imagine how such a confusion might have arisen for NICE, can you MS? I suppose it also excuses the media a bit really also, if NICE went and got themselves all mixed up about it?
     
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    Maybe he dived in for a quick stir, and dived back out again. Ducking and diving ...
     
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  3. Barry

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    Yes, I've been thinking that SW may have done to MS what he probably does best - social engineering.
     
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    I know quite a bit about parliamentary decorum - and I can tell you that when multiple MPs (and a government minister) tell you that you've overstepped the mark and that an apology is due, it's extremely ill advised to dig your heels in and insist they're all wrong and that actually you're the one that's been unfairly maligned and defamed. Not if you have any hope of being taken seriously in future, that is.
     
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    Or maybe MS thinks he is untouchable.
     
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  6. Barry

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    Oh dear, a dyed-in-the-wool word-twister getting upset because he thinks people are twisting his words.
     
  7. large donner

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    Ye or sometimes they just give the fuckers a knighthood.
     
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  8. Barry

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    I do wonder if it was a mistake, or if he maybe thought to make MS's life a little livelier.
     
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    'Back at the day job'. Always his reason/excuse on Twitter for a sharp exit. (pardon the pun)
     
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    Exactly. Well-put.

    One can only hope.
     
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    Boom. Mic(hael) drop.
     
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    Three mistakes in 4 words? (privilege spelt wrong, disappointing shouldn't be an adverb, though spelt wrong). Or does he mean the debate was disappointingly thorough? Unlike his grasp of spelling and grammar.

    No matter. This from a guy who has never used his privileged position to defame people. I think I hear a cooking utensil refering to the colour of an electrical appliance.
     
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    Pure arse covering, just in case it turns out to be true.

    If it wasn't about ME, then why did they use the London ME criteria for sub-grouping?

    Sailing?

    Another trick is to change the oil out for a more viscous one, which helps keep the pressure up, without fixing any problems.
     
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    If you remember the good old days, you weren't there.
     
  15. large donner

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    Give him a break he was probably pissed as a fart tonight.
     
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    Ah gee thanks I did a whole sentence without swearing.
     
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    It also struck me that his choice of words was very particular and I wonder if he would have used the same if he was saying it to a male MP. It conjures up images of a girl being told off (in the victorian age).
     
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    Can you imagine if we had a situation like the David Irving/Deborah Lipstadt trial, where he ruined himself in public trying to deal with his ego?

    I wouldn't want Carol, (she's now a saint in my eyes), to have to go through something like that but to see him twist himself in knots trying to explain why he is right in public would be great.
     
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    They're both so ridiculous and bad at PR that I wonder how they could have been taken seriously all these years (and well, SW is not as bad as MS). I wonder if that tells something about the way ME patients are seen. Nobody cared to look at this whole field because nobody really cared about us.

    Yes, they keep telling that their work was misinterpreted, but where are the tons of mails (to NICE, to the media...) they sent to correct these errors? I can't imagine a decent searcher, caring about his patients, not reacting when his words are distorted or misused. But yet, Michael and his mates just said nothing and pretend to have done all of this for us all these years.
    Call me stupid, Mr.
     
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