Special Report - Online activists are silencing us, scientists say Reuters March 2019

It is clear that the "silencing" strategy is going well.

 

I actually wondered whether that article was paid content.

 

except he has blocked most, if not all, of them so more likely he can get unsuspecting 'supporters' to sympathise without fear of 'exposure'.

Be good if someone who isn't blocked could tweet the JHP PACE edition to show 'new readers' why pwME oppose his 'research'.

 

Simple alignment of interests usually suffices. SMC has huge stakes in propping up the fake success of IAPT, which itself depends on PACE and the rest of the body of evidence showing "evidence" that BPS-style "medicine" is sound and cost-effective.

It's simply a different form of payment but no need to actually pay directly for that to influence.

Ironically it sounds like IAPT will fail first, then take down PACE and the rest, rather than the other way around. Weird but whatever.

 

Meanwhile in reality, there is a group being bullied, and it's definitely not this sorry excuse of a professor. All this nastiness has real-life consequences. What's sad is that everyone involved in the publication of this trash, or any of the other hit pieces, will ever look back with hindsight and understand what they did.

As awareness of Long Covid grows, so does the nastiness. Medicine is 100% responsible for this morally bankrupt dystopian nightmae.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1412755598337249283

 

So, 4 and a half years ago, we were subjected to this garbage yellow journalism report about how "eminent scientists" had retired, again, as it wasn't the first time they claimed to, from CFS research because of so much abuse and, uh, mean tweets? That can't be right. Whatever. It started with mail bombs and they had to walk it back because they made the mistake of trying it in front of judges.

It also very explicitly tried to harm David Tuller's (@dave30th) reputation.

Well, as has been reported over the years, Michael Sharpe has been back for several years in CFS "research", if one can call it that, or at least in clinical work, at Oxford (https://www.s4me.info/threads/me-cfs-services-in-the-united-kingdom.5625/page-29#post-489131), where he continues with the tradition of being especially nasty towards the patient population, writing things like "may require managing difficulties in understanding (such as cognitive deficits, or unconscious denial of psychological conflicts), or overcoming communication difficulties with patient who are hostile, antagonistic, highly anxious or psychotic" in actual job ads for positions under his administration. The very premise of this BS "special report".

And of course it was always complete BS. A few days after there was a twitter conversation between Sharpe and Wessely where they repeated what was known: that it is us doing legitimate criticism and lodging protests for mistreatment because of them that they object to. Theirs protests are entirely over our debunking of their scam, which now NICE agrees and has become indefensible. Things that not only do we have every right to do, but are actually critical to how healthcare and science work.

All of this, to an international audience, leading to even more vilifying from self-important ideologues maligning us even worse on social media, and Sharpe has been back at it for years and it changes nothing. This is such incredible grade A horseshit.

The conversation on twitter where they admit that the premise of this "special report" was just as made-up as the even more damaging claims they tried to pass to a tribunal, and were rebuked for: