Just to note he is not a psychiatrist or even an MD, despite being a "professor of psychiatry". He's a historian.
Edward Shorter, incase anyone is unfamiliar with him: The NIH laid a huge egg when someone invited Edward Shorter, a Toronto psychiatrist who...
However, perhaps a good argument in favour of neuropsychiatry is that Edward Shorter appears to be against it.
It’s very difficult where I live and I’ve had to deal with escalating things no one in my condition should have to deal with. I hadn’t planned on...
I mentioned earlier as a side remark that Shorter's talk at the NIH sounded highly similar to the talk he gave at a notorious CIBA meeting in...
Edward Shorter 1992 'From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era'...
Copied to thread on Shorter This has just reminded me of something. Many, many years ago I posted a bunch of "bad ME quotes", derived solely...
NIH Attitudes Affect Policy: A Story In Two Parts Posted on June 27, 2017 by Jennie Spotila...
To me it appears like a very hamfisted way to make a Walitt-caused potential PR disaster go away. (A scenario where Walitt felt that he was...
I think that might be too much to conclude, but it indicates that Nath was relying heavily on Walitt and was grateful that he covered Naths...
Ok, let’s look at a couple of things. First of all, Walitt was absolutely very involved in creating the study protocol. It was his job, he...
I don't think this blog post from Hillary Johnson has been posted on the forum before? It seems relevant here: Can A Leopard Change its Spots? ME...
Here is some more more info that can be slotted into the timeline of events regarding Walitt, the interoception project and the NCCIH: (Some of it...
Hardly surprising. A few years ago, Blanchflower, now banned from X/Twitter, went on a sustained pro-PACE troll spree that was unique in its...
Walitt's views were pretty bad, and, extraordinarily, enough people with decision-making power in the NIH thought that Edward Shorter's extremely...
full review here: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-exhaustion you can comment original book being reviewed [MEDIA]
Cool, yet another previous unknown for me to "enjoy". Before I start reading through some of the previous From Paralysis to Fatigue: a critical...
Federal Road Safety Commission?
You can read the full 2002 article here: https://bjgp.org/content/bjgp/52/478/432.full.pdf It begins on page 8 of the PDF. Actually, the...
From the book Osler's Web by Hillary Johnson, Ciba Foundation Symposium 173d, summary. Page 571 The Ciba Foundation was an independant academic...
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