Miranda Hart - British comedian

Well it is relevant if your aim is to tell your audience that ME is CF and CF is FND.

 

Wonder if that's the same Clare Wilson. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126997-000-mind-over-body/

 

She probably is. This is what you can read about her at the end of the iNews article: "Clare Wilson is science writer at the i paper. She was previously a reporter for New Scientist, specialising in medicine and life sciences"

 

i News says of ClareWilson :

I gives her Twitter handle @clarewilsonmed

The New Scientist says of her:

 

Probably

 

The New Scientist. Well what else is one to expect?

 

This article could be a puff piece for Simon Wessely:

But the rest is behind a paywall.

However it seems very SMC in its tone.

[added - Clare Wilson has also written an article supportive of the idea of giving the unemployed weight loss injections - https://inews.co.uk/news/weightloss-jabs-jobless-back-work-3324712 ]

 

Following in the footsteps of the Fox’s sister.

 

Fortunately inews isn’t exactly a big hitter

 

CS has posted the Clare Wilson article on the MEA FB page, without any further comment. I saw it early in the morning, so just skimmed through the comments from the community but a lot of them agreed with the article and were supportive of Miranda Hart and her book. (Eg I agree, it is Miranda's own story, she has a right to tell her own story / every little glimpse of hope of improvement is important / the book raises awareness of ME/CFS, it doesn't deserve backlash, etc etc.) Not all comments were so supportive of course, but a lot. We are such vulnerable people.

Edit: OK, since the first time I looked at the comments was a few hours ago, I checked the post again. Fortunately, there are a lot more comments now drawing attention to the potential harm such mind-body therapies can cause and their lack of evidence. Phew. Early in the morning the thread looked very different and I thought all hope was lost if so many people in the community (followers of the MEA) just accept these therapies at face value. The early morning comments were quite shocking to read.

 

I found it a bit convoluted and it lost me in a number of places but some key points were strongly made.


"I’m so flippin excited that it’s slowly filtering down from neuroscientists’ studies over the last four or five decades to GP surgeries and becoming the understood universal answer in the healing of many chronic illnesses,in particular ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, food and chemical insensitivities, and now long Covid.
Miranda.

We do not have a cure, an answer or even safe care, so I’m not sure who told you there is a universal answer?

Because there are 2 million with Long Covid over a million with ME and we are still starving to death in hospitals being looked after by psychiatrists. We are in a crisis and we need all hands on deck to find something that works. And we definitely do not need anymore brain rewiring workbooks. Can you see the disconnect? People are fighting not to die in hospital and you release your book saying behavioural mind-body interventions are needed. That not being able to say no is the root cause of your ME-induced Lyme. "

 

Indeed. I had never seen this one before (New Scientist, 14 March 2009):

 

Well that article obviously can't be true since he had loudly announced in 2002 that he had retired from research on ME and this was published in 2009.

It couldn't be that he *gasp* lied?!

 

I didn’t count them up, but there are certainly more than one untruth in this article by Clare Wilson who certainly is not building up to be a hard hitting investigative journalist.

 

I’m no scientist but I’m thinking of having a go at this rice theory. So I just make some rice and I guess leave two bowls in about the same place? But one I am going to quietly verbally abuse. And the other, I will whisper sweet nothings to.
I wonder why people in the olden days didn’t just say nice things to rice, we’d never have needed to invent fridge freezers then.

 

Isn’t cooked rice prone to getting a bacteria that can be fatal to humans? So can I either suggest you confine these verbal interactions to uncooked rice or alternatively get a glass doored fridge for this purpose.

 

I’m not eating it! Apparently, the rice I call a “good-for-nothing See You Next Tuesday” will look visibly degraded, as compared to my special-wecial true love rice.

 

I like how you've got a vehicle-only control planned ("sweet nothings").