Professor Michael Sharpe

It is right there. "I apologise and agree that CFS and ME are best kept separate" Prof. dr. Michael Sharpe, 25 April 2018 to the ME Vereniging Nederland.

 

Thank you it is useful to have this clear statement from Sharpe, though I suspect he is happy to suggest one thing to one audience and something else to another.

The BPS researchers in their publications do not present a clear distinction with different case definitions so we can not know whether their subjects had what Sharpe would consider CFS or what he would consider ME or indeed something else completely different. Indeed given their preference for the Oxford criteria most BPS research could include either or possibly neither.

Also does White’s CFS include or differ from idiopathic chronic fatigue without PEM. If he believes there is an important distinction between ME and CFS why does he not make this clear in his publications, especially when most researchers currently regard both as a provisional single entity.

 

(and Wessely had already got the name changed from ME to CFS in 1996)

 

You cannot get a ME diagnosis here, and I suspect it is the same in a lot of UK.
This simply makes things more concerning.

 

Didn't know where to post this but it's interesting to see MSs
Publications & Citations Over Time

https://academic.microsoft.com/auth...qe=Composite(AA.AuId=2051315283)&f=&orderBy=3

 

that's odd the link doesn't work anymore.
oh well here's the google scholar one
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=6rmDrdUAAAAJ&hl=en