Who is Simon Wessely?

Tripe of the year?

 

I was blocked after posting this:

 

They seem to have blocked everyone with a differing opinion.

 

CEO of the Society for Occupational Medicine, not the Royal Society of Medicine.

Disappointing that so many people have been blocked. Reading the comments I was impressed by how polite and accurate most of them were – in contrast to many Twitters threads on other non-ME/CFS topics.

I think his response just shows how effective the smear campaign against critics and people with ME/CFS has been.

 

From many comments, it seems like the SOMCEO account has mass blocked pwME. They like their bubble and don't want to hear about what it leaves behind.

 

Totally predictable though. Never one for honest debate our Simon.

 

I wonder if it might be posting the trial that proves him wrong on gulf war syndrome, and see what he says. Probably a sure blocker.

 

Also this regarding Dr Robert Haley's long research into GWI. During all this time SW has been spouting his own self-opinionated nonsense, and heavily influencing government thinking on gulf war illness, pension entitlements, etc. Basically for SW and the BPS brigade, its all in your head until proven otherwise ... and even then they won't change their beliefs; their "science" is really all about their own beliefs dressed up as science. Charlatan is one of the many words that comes to mind, and I'd better not say here.

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/sarin-nerve-gas-gulf-war-illness.html

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1670145649759645697


This is censorship, and particularly ugly at that. They refuse to hear from patients, simply silence us at every opportunity and abuse their influence and privilege to do so. I think it's worth doing something, especially as it's a pattern.

Even the weird stuff about "debates" in Norway features people who blocked anyone criticizing them. What a ridiculous situation.

 

It's pretty utopian really. The BPS State, and woe betide anyone decrying it.

 

The Society of Occupational Medicine, as far as I am aware, is about as important as the North Croydon Taxidermy Society.

I would have thought it an embarrassment to Wessely that anyone like that should offer him a free membership - presumably to curry some sort of favour or other.

 

I expect SW could come up with some BPS theory about why taxidermy subjects ended up that way, and to just get themselves a life.