Who is Simon Wessely?

Like some mushrooms (the ones which are several miles tall, slightly warm, and a teeny bit radioactive), a devastating effect on all, blowing away ethical rationality and compassion wherever seen.

 

Oh, sure, ask the guy who should be famous for arguing that not once, not twice, not thrice, but about four distinct conditions that turned out to be entirely wrong. Somehow still credible, inexplicably.

It's actually correct here but for the wrong reasons because it has nothing to do with actual symptoms, it's fake behavior and the guy who built his career arguing the same about genuine diseases can't tell it apart. There are so many famous cases of that, from snake handlers, faith healers who make people fall down by swatting them with a jacket and the very same with bullshido, where "masters" basically throw people to the ground by simply screaming.

It's acting, you dumbass. There is no mass hysteria, people are simply playing along because they want to, not because they are unable to control themselves. Completely different thing and having nothing whatsoever to do with complex diseases Wessely denies exist.

Again, the "bird expert" arguing that bats are clearly just a type of bird. It makes question both expertises if he insists they are one and the same. What tripe.

 

I couldn’t help wondering whether someone maybe dropped an acid tab into the street vendor’s rice cooker, especially as the girls carried out were all regulars.

How bizarre to diagnose mass hysteria.

 

What were the 4 conditions? ME, GWI, and...

 

Aluminium poisoning

 

Yup, Camelford. This one the government apologized for, but the guy responsible for making up the lies is somehow blameless.

Also he wrote an article in 2001 saying "9/11 WTC health problems are mass hysteria, an 'illness' of fear", also ignored. I guess jury is still kind of out on GWI, as far as some people are concerned anyway because they have made-up their mind and will never change. But with the 9/11 first-responders bill in the news recently it's disappointing that Wessely's baseless claims aren't considered controversial when they perfectly mirror the same failure with ME and GWI.

 

He is like a beautiful ocean liner.

No, wait, that's the worst analogy ever.

OK, the second worst.

 

Simon Wessely is a very influential quack.

 

and they keep coming
https://twitter.com/user/status/1177126170736889856

 

Umm, so the weasel is an honorary woman now?

 

My oh my, what a busy little social networker he is.

 

5 February 2020

King's College London Regius Professor of Psychiatry appointed to ESRC Council

enjoy your dream SW; just remember the nightmare you created for a lot of people

 

Give us the opportunity to influence policy without our views being hijacked and distorted by academics.

https://madcovid.com/2020/05/04/giv...es-off-the-back-of-our-collective-experience/

About more than Wessely himself but those are the relevant passages:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1257324182553030660

 

Malcolm Aylward? I think that should be Mansel Aylward

https://www.me-pedia.org/wiki/mansel_aylward

 

for anyone unfamiliar with the subject see this thread
https://www.s4me.info/threads/government-and-insurance-companies-establishing-the-bps-model.2319/

 

Why is 'Woodstock' always a sort of mythical iconic event from the past?

 

Possibly because participants from both were away with the fairies.