Michael Sharpe skewered by @JohntheJack on Twitter

And so it goes on:


He is correct. There is a difference between a perceived conflict of interest and an actual conflict of interest.

We will always perceive him to have a conflict of interest, because we know he is not acting in the interest of the trial participants or PwME in general. But as far as he is concerned, he can neither perceive it or believe that he has an actual conflict, because he thinks he is right.

However, the bias that all this creates is real. We need the MRC and others to see that.
 
adambeyoncelowe said:
There is an objective reality here. He had things *other people* might consider COIs, so he should have declared them, regardless of whether he thought they were COIs.
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Somewhere the rules stated he had to declare them, be it the university, the journal they planned to submit to, the government or whatever. He failed to fulfill those obligations. I assume he is responsible for his failure no matter the cause, though i don't know what the penalty is supposed to be for this violation if there even is one.
So he can claim anything he wants he still lied, all the doublethink in the world can't change his historical actions. Sometimes i think society needs to accept that reality exists and reality denial is an unproductive human characteristic, not a rip in the fabric of spacetime thats mysterious and unexplainable or philosophical
 
Different items on different forms reflect differing reporting requirements for things that MAY be seen as conflicts at different times.
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Five qualifiers in one sentence, it's almost as if he was going for a record. A pity he isn't so circumspect when describing the results of the PACE Trial.
 
There is. I'm on the board for a charity. I have to disclose anything that might count. My mum is a local councillor, she has to declare everything! There's a policy of 'whiter than white', because otherwise you bring disrepute to every person you work with.

They don't care. Presumably because their colleagues are equally repugnant.
 
I find Sharpe's tweets....how shall I put it.....odd. He is repeatedly laying himself open to people posting evidence which shows what he is claiming is false, so why do it?

Might he be trying to get a PWME to tweet something inflammatory/vexatious or at least which he will claim is inflammatory/vexatious to use against the ME community or Tuller?

So perhaps we all need to be careful not to give him any ammo, no ammo so far, some excellent tweets, but just pointing out.
 
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