Who is Simon Wessely?

London gives Simon Wessely among 40 others another award for outstanding contribution https://news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/40...edom-of-the-city-of-london-in-group-ceremony/

 

What is his contribution exactly?

 

The page doesn’t even say which ‘field of business’ he belongs to.

 

It has absolutely nothing alongside his name under 'field of business', which seems appropriate to me.

 

He and his colleagues e.g. Sharpe etc have saved medical insurance companies untold millions by giving them a pretext to deny claims from pwME and LC. He has done similar for the state, and does similar whenever there is an environmental pollution or mass poisoning or 9/11 or whatever where people have long term health issues and companies don't want to pay out. Jolly old Sir Si comes along to tell everyone not to worry, it's all in their heads.

 

Whenever this comes up, I feel inclined to highlight Peter White
https://virology.ws/2017/08/07/trial-by-error-retired-pace-investigator-peter-white-and-swiss-re/

We have one case on record (someone got their records under the data protection act):
https://www.s4me.info/threads/how-p...fs-such-as-the-pace-trial-investigators.8066/

He seems to have been a chief medical officer of SwissRe, a reinsurance company, for decades. The amount of claims he could have turned down during that period could be huge.

 

Isn’t that the company Sharpe infamously made a presentation to claiming George Monbiot was “spreading” long COVID, by writing about it.

 

Yes: https://virology.ws/2021/04/06/tria...ing-long-covid-says-professor-michael-sharpe/

 

Swiss Re: Expert Forum on secondary COVID-19 impacts, Feb 2021 | Science for ME

 

I was not aware of this and am horrified but not particularly surprised. This should have immediately disqualified him from running PACE. It's such a massive and obvious conflict of interest. But PACE was so clearly about getting one particular answer and bending the data to that end.

How many lives destroyed to save these companies and governments money? To prop up the careers of these mediocre frauds?