Cheshire
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Press articles
Mind over body?
New Scientist
Clare Wilson (Simon Wessely interview)
2009, 11 march
Link to article
'Torrent of abuse' hindering ME research
BBC News
Tom Feilden
2011, 29 july
Link to article
'Vicious campaign' against ME researchers
BBC News
2011, 29 july
Link to article
ME researchers 'receive death threats from sufferers'
The Telegraph
2011, 29 july
Link to article
Doctor reveals intimidation and abuse of scientists researching ME causes
The Irish Independent
Theo Usherwoo
2011, 29 july
Link to article
Scientists investigating ME get 'death threats' for investigating psychological causes
The Daily Mail
Jenny Hope
2011, 30 July
Link to article
Head case
The Economist
C.H.
2011, 30 July
Link to article
Shoot the medical messenger – see if that’ll cure you
The Sunday Times
Rod Liddle
2011, 31 July
Link to article
‘Disease of the brain, not the mind, has no stigma’
The Times: today’s columnists
Prof Colin Blakemore
2011, 2 August
Link to article
Chronic fatigue syndrome researchers face death threats from militants
The Guardian
Robin McKie
2011, 21 august
Link to article
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Death threats for scientists?
Discover
Carl Zimmer
2011, 21 August
Link to article
Chronic Fatigue Scientists Get Death Threats
The Scientist
Tia Ghose
2011, 23 August
Link to article
Protesters have got it all wrong on ME
The telegraph
Max Pemberton
2011, 29 august
Link to article
Chronic Fatigue: Enough Energy Left for Death Threats, Anyway
Science Translational Medicine
Derek Lowe
2011, 6 September
Link to article
The findings of a study into the role of viruses in ME will not be acceptable to some sufferers
The Telegraph
Max Pemberton
2012, 24 september
Link to article
Link to Pemberton Tweets
It’s safer to insult the Prophet Mohammed than to contradict the armed wing of the ME brigade’
Daily Telegraph
Damian Thompson
2012, 28 September
Link to article
ME: bitterest row yet in a long saga
The Independent
Sanchez Manning
2012, 25 November
Link to article
This man faced death threats and abuse. His crime? He suggested that ME was a mental illness
The Sunday Times
Michael Hanlon
2013, 5 May
Link to article
Link to printed article
How the ME zealots tried to terrorise me
The Daily Mail
Max Pemberton
2015, 31 october
Link to article (scroll down)
Link to images of the first version of this article
The ME lobby is just a symptom of our stupidity about mental illness
The Spectator
Rod Liddle
7 November 2015
Link to article
Blog
Science by Intimidation
Neurologica
Steven Novella
2011, Sep 01
Link to blog
Inconvenient truths
SMC blog
Fiona Fox
2017, 28 september
Link to blog
Other publications
Threats of persecution
Science Media Centre: Anniversary Brochure
Interviews with Dr Esther Crawley and Tom Feilden (p. 16-17)
2011
Link to brochure
Letter to the editor protesting false allegations made against Simon Wessely
The Independent
Letter signed by (amongst others): Peter White, Michael Sharpe, Esther Crawley, Stephen Holgate, Rona Moss-Morris, Alastair Miller, George Davey-Smith, Gabrielle Murphy, Hazel O'Dowd, Alison Wearden, Trudie Chalder
2012, 12 december
Link to letter (scroll down)
Chronic fatigue syndrome
RationalWiki
Link to article
Parliamentary debates
PACE Trial: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
House of Lords Hansard
2013, 6 february
See Lord Winston intervention - 5.36 pm
Link to debate report
Radio
Comparison of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome - the PACE trial
ABC Aus
Interview with Michael Sharpe, psychiatrist and Richard Horton, Editor in Chief of The Lancet
2011, 18 April
Link to broadcast
Talks, lectures
Standing up for Science: A panel discussion
2017, 29 march
Link to presentation
How open should open data be?
Better Science through Better Data
Esther Crawley
2017, 25 october
S4ME thread
Disrupting Your View Of ME
TEDxBristol
Esther Crawley
2017, 2 november
S4ME thread
Link to video: Part 1 - Part 2
John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science 2012 granted to Simon Wessely
2012 John Maddox Prize
Sense about Science
2012
Link to article
Psychiatrist and journalist win prize for defending science
The Lancet
Becky McCall
2012 17 November
Link to article
Esther Crawley gets 'commendation' at 2017 Maddox Prize awards
Sense about Science
2012
Link to article
S4ME thread
--------------------------------------------
Critiques and rebuttal of the threats narrative
Articles and blog posts
Wessely’s Words Revisited
Malcolm Hooper
2011, 30th July
Link to article
'The Threats', a stunning new thriller from UK media
Velo-gubbed legs
Nasim Marie Jafry
2011, 1 september
Link to blog
Sticks and stones
Velo-gubbed legs
Nasim Marie Jafry
2012, 1 october
Link to blog
My email correspondence with Journalist Michael Hanlon regarding a proposed Sunday Times article
Angela Kennedy
2013, 6 february
Link to correspondence
Shining A Light On The CMRC Setup
The Young ME Sufferers Trust
2014, august
Link to report
My (current) position on the PACE trial
Nick Brown
2015, 14 december
Link to blog
Trial By Error, Continued: A Few Words About “Harassment”
Virology blog
David Tuller
2016, 1 February
Link to blog
In the Expectation of Recovery - MISLEADING MEDICAL RESEARCH AND WELFARE REFORM
Centre for Welfare Reform
George Faulkner
2016, april
Link to report (see p.22, 47)
Major breakthrough on PACE trial
Center for Walfare Reform
George Faulkner
2016, august 19
Link to article (quote tribunal FOI verdict, see below)
No Reported Harassment at Bristol University (Information Obtained Under FOI)
The Young ME Sufferers Trust
2017
Link to article
S4ME thread
Esther Crawley claims harassment, university has no record
Vada
Adam Lowe
2017, 30 october
Link to article
Radio/Television
UK Column News
2017, 10 November
Link to video (37.30 - 39.33)
S4ME thread
Judiciary
Complaint to the Press Complaints Commission
IiME
29th August 2011
Link to complaint
Complaint to the Press Complaints Commission against the Daily Telegraph
MEAssociation
2011, november
Link to complaint
Court order on Alem Matthees FOI request about QMUL PACE data
2016
Link to court order (p.33, 36)
Last edited: