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I may be the exception here, but I am not so fascinated or happy by what he's saying although I am thankful for his work and enthusiasm. It's just a feeling. E.g. he says somatoform illnesses are real - where's the proof for that? If it's real, i.e. part of our reality, there should be a...

Thank you, @Jonathan Edwards, that was valuable information for me. Again, I am astonished by the lack of knowledge of many doctors. Nobody understood the PET results (even though the radiologist had written a report), not even the neurologist. Thus, the results were called worthless (and...

Thank you, @Holinger, also from me. Interesting to read about your experience.

I guess many people don't know how ME is - or how being sick is. Before ME, I was convinced that exercise always is good; now I make a different experience. And although I still think exercise/moving around is essential for humans, I now know there are exceptions. But it's very common: If one...

I had (and probably still have) low stomach acid for a long time, though it's better for a few weeks now. It's a big problem. I don't know how common it is. The symptoms of low and high stomach acid are in many points similar (just my experience) so that most would maybe say they have too much...

If I may add - and hopefully correctly, since I'm not an expert - you als need Chloride for HCl (stomach acid) and, if my searches were correct, Vitamin B6.

Without details.. :D it is possible that whole protein passes the gut to the outside.

Well, unfortunately, what Richard Ofshe says in the Sally Show hasn't made it to today. There's still the strong belief of "repressed memories" and that childhood "traumata" (even those that cannot be remembered) cause illnesses of the body.

This is all terrible! :emoji_astonished: I wish I could say "they'll all pay", but - did those responsible for the Inquisition pay? Or others who did terrible things? Mostly no. :(

Thank you, @duncan :)

I suppose the story of Gerd Postel is known? He was a postman who faked certificates and became a deputy in psychiatry, giving lots of expert opinions for court and doing talks before other experts of psychiatry. His cover blew because of his certificates, not because of his "lacking" knowledge...

What happened with IL-6? Did the BPS people invent a fairytale about how the psyche or an underlying conflict influences IL-6?

Thanks @Valentijn and @Mithriel. The knighthood is political, my opinion. It's not that I view it as unlikely that he may have worked for the Pentagon, too, it's that I like substance. Your replies give me an idea. @duncan, how can you link the ME/GWI study to psycho statements? I don't see...

Shall I write him and ask to clarify?

What's the aim of this document? It's really a lot. Do you have some proofs/hints that Mr. Wessely worked/works for Pentagon?

@Sasha, did I understand him correctly, do you think?

This one is good: “I now go to Iraq and Afghanistan, where I feel a lot safer” (Prof. Wessely). Indeed! I hope no Iraqi or Afghan was reading that. I suggest he really visits these places (I mean the relevant places) before saying such a thing, even if it's sarcasm. The article is terrible...

@Sasha I meant "many generation" families, sorry for this misunderstanding. You are right, they don't have to be big. I understood that he is interested in whether and how ME might be inherited, e.g. from parents to children, to their children and so on.

Thanks, @Trish, after reading @Luther Blissett's link again I got this impression, too. Too sad such things are often connected with Marx. You can't just pick one thing, make an ideology about it and then say "Marx" - oh, this principle reminds me of something we are discussing in this thread :)

I fear that feeling won't go away, although it's better we're on p.4 now, leaving those pictures on p.3 behind.