Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

[Kitty]

I think Garner has nowhere else to go. The serious researchers doesn’t take him seriously, and the terrible ones will go after him if he opposes them.

I'd say it isn't even about medicine or science or healthcare any more, it's about being a contrarian because it gets you attention. Maybe even seeing yourself as one of the disrupters, even though next to the real disrupters you'd look like an old bloke with a Boer War rifle.

There's something a bit desperate about it all. It still has the capacity to do harm, but ultimately, as you say, the horse he backed is going nowhere.

 

[Snow Leopard]

Oh I see he’s been retweeting some other divisive subjects.

I checked and yes, the other divisive subject is his transphobia because of course...

The interesting thing is in one case (ME/CFS) the patients are against treatments due to poor quality evidence, in the other case he is trying to say that patients should not be treated due to lack of quality evidence. Two contradictory positions, the only commonality is he denies the majority of patient experiences and patient preferences in both cases.