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  1. Jonathan Edwards
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    Science Media Centre goes for junk food?

    Seems that SMC doesn't mind using experts with competing interests?...
    Thread by: Jonathan Edwards, Sep 28, 2023, 5 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  2. Andy
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    Office of National Statistics: Prevalence of ongoing symptoms following coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in the UK: Updates

    "Main points At 2 May 2021, an estimated 1.0 million people living in private households in the UK (1.6%) were experiencing self-reported long...
    Thread by: Andy, Jun 4, 2021, 133 replies, in forum: Long Covid news
  3. Andy
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    Advice from 'experts' on post-viral fatigue following Covid-19 (NHS Oxford Health, Science Media Centre, ...)

    Not a recommendation. Introduction This leaflet is one of a series about Coronavirus and mental health. The leaflets contain information about...
    Thread by: Andy, Apr 15, 2020, 75 replies, in forum: Long Covid news
  4. Three Chord Monty
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    SMC: Advice for Researchers Experiencing Harassment

    https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Advice-for-Researchers-Experiencing-Harrasment-2019.pdf "All researchers should...
    Thread by: Three Chord Monty, Oct 3, 2019, 39 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS news
  5. Estherbot
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    Claire Fox (Fiona's sister)

    You may be aware that the head of the Science Media Centre is Fiona Fox. Her sister is Claire Fox who recently approved her support of the lovely...
    Thread by: Estherbot, Apr 24, 2019, 45 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  6. Andy
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    Disabled People Against Cuts: Biopsychosocial lobby and right wing media attack #pwme

    ME activist Catherine Hale explains: “It’s the usual pattern: a spurious story about CFS researchers getting online harassment and having to quit...
    Thread by: Andy, Mar 19, 2019, 1 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS news
  7. MSEsperanza
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    'E-cigarettes help more smokers quit than patches and gum' (30.01.2019) Kelland / Reuters

    Science Media Centre: Expert reaction to randomised, controlled trial of ecigs vs NRT in smoking cessation (30.01.2019) Research published in The...
    Thread by: MSEsperanza, Feb 1, 2019, 32 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  8. Dolphin
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    What could be done about the Science Media Centre (SMC) in the UK

    This was mentioned in another thread, but I thought it was worth having its own thread.
    Thread by: Dolphin, Jan 17, 2019, 19 replies, in forum: Advocacy Projects and Campaigns
  9. Kalliope
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    David Tuller: Trial By Error: More Thoughts on the Interferon Study

    More Thoughts on the Interferon Study I was surprised recently when the UK press made a big splash about what was, in the end, a modest study...
    Thread by: Kalliope, Jan 7, 2019, 7 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS news
  10. Andy
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    Blog: Changing the narrative #1: exploring a new approach to strategic communications in the ME community, by Valerie Eliot Smith

    Introduction I started writing this blog in 2012. For several years since then, I have kept starting drafts on a particular topic, only to then...
    Thread by: Andy, Jan 7, 2019, 181 replies, in forum: Advocacy Projects and Campaigns
  11. hinterland
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    Scientists must keep fighting fake news, says Fiona Fox of SMC in The Guardian

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/sep/03/scientists-must-keep-fighting-fake-news-not-retreat-to-their-ivory-towers Scientists have...
    Thread by: hinterland, Sep 3, 2018, 11 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  12. Indigophoton
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    David Tuller: Trial by Error: My exchange with Professor Bishop

    I recently wrote to Oxford University neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop, who had provided a statement to the Science Media Centre about the...
    Thread by: Indigophoton, Jun 26, 2018, 19 replies, in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  13. Robert 1973
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    CDC responds to false SMC factsheet claim

    On 26 March I sent to following question to the CDC: ‘A recently published "factsheet" about "CFS/ME" by the UK Science Media Centre states:...
    Thread by: Robert 1973, May 28, 2018, 31 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS news
  14. Robert 1973
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    Article by Fiona Fox (SMC) for the Revolutionary Communist Party (c. 1996)

    Following the publication of the Forward-ME group letter to the Science Media Centre (SMC) to...
    Thread by: Robert 1973, Apr 8, 2018, 34 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS news
  15. Andy
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    Forward-ME Group Letter to the Science Media Centre, April 2018

    Forward-ME Group Chair, The Countess of Mar, has written on behalf of the members of the Group to the Chief Executive of the Science Media Centre...
    Thread by: Andy, Apr 5, 2018, 2 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS news
  16. Esther12
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    United Kingdom: Science Media Centre (including Fiona Fox)

    The science media centre has played an important role in stigmatising CFS patients, and anyone critical of PACE and related work, so it's always...
    Thread by: Esther12, Dec 10, 2017, 694 replies, in forum: News from organisations
  17. Sly Saint
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    The Royal Society of Medicine presents '21st Century Healthcare', a collaboration with ITN Productions

    I have only just become aware of this and although I suspected that the SMC connection(ie SW) was at play with regards to Channel 4 News, Channel...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Jan 29, 2018, 15 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  18. Andy
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    Blog: David Tuller, "Trial By Error: My Questions for the Science Media Centre"

    On September 20, 2017, a BMJ Publishing Group journal, Archives of Disease in Childhood published the SMILE trial. This trial investigated an...
    Thread by: Andy, Dec 18, 2017, 22 replies, in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  19. Andy
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    Fiona Fox (SMC) blog: Research councils: Independence once lost, is hard to recover

    I can't tell if she's being ironic or not, in blogging how important it is to have independence for researchers. Michael Gove is shaping up to be...
    Thread by: Andy, Nov 27, 2017, 13 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  20. Esther12
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    You may have heard of it? At the other place, some of us wrote a word or two about it. I thought it might be good to have a thread for PACE chats,...
    Thread by: Esther12, Nov 7, 2017, 1,216 replies, in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
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