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I'm not sure what this paper is about, just posting in case it is relevant. Being quoted in darker parts of the Internet as more evidence of China bad intentions, so caution re: searches, as much nonsense is attached.

Bio Rxiv Lethal Infection of Human ACE2-Transgenic Mice Caused by SARS-CoV-2-related Pangolin Coronavirus GX_P2V(short_3UTR) Lai Wei, Shuiqing Liu, Shanshan Lu, Shengdong Luo, Xiaoping An, Huahao Fan, Weiwei Chen, Erguang Li, Yigang Tong, ProfileLihua Song Abstract SARS-CoV-2-related...

Interesting legal point demonstrating the complexity of the available PO scandal narratives: Could the Post Office sue its own former directors and advisers regarding the Horizon scandal? And a piece by journalist Gavin Esler on narratives and the human face (covers political stuff but examples...

The devil would be setting the context in a meaningful narrative that doesn't suggest imbalance. The more that one seeks to get around a narrative problem the more ungainly and abstruse the drama tends to become - fine if one is telling an involving detective story, but perhaps more problematic...

Nevertheless it's useful to understand the mechanisms involved, why things work or why they don't; one never knows what opportunities might arise and being able to respond to those in the most effective way is obviously desirable. I'm not sure that dramatisation would be involved but I'm...

I'm unclear how it would be possible to dramatise that without identifying the individuals and raising balance and defamation issues. It's not like cancer or diabetes or heart disease where a fictionalised medic can be set without any defamation issue because there are so many possible figures...

The key there is Producer whose primary understanding is of the questions: Will this get an audience ? Will the audience size/demographic satisfy the Board and/or the subscriber Dept' and/or the Advertisers, Will the subject matter satisfy the Programme Commissioner's Business Plan and/or the...

For anyone wanting to get to grips with the legal background to the PO isssue - this blog by lawyer David Alan Green plus some very useful comments, is a good intro: How the legal system made it so easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses – and...

But if we relate that to the PO/Horizon story are we really saying that Wessely is a Paula Vennels figure and that the rag bag of assorted UK Psychs who are the conceiving body of BPS are equivalent to the UK Government, Fujitsu Consultants and the UK Post Office ? Vennels was an exec charged...

For anyone wanting more points of analysis on the dramatic narrative - Toby Jones gives an actor's insight into what made the PO story work: https://shows.acast.com/media-confidential/episodes/the-post-office-scandal-toby-jones-on-his-dramas-impact Also a key aspect of the overall narrative...

Jon Ronson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ronson

The question of balance is a matter of legal jurisdiction, if we are talking UK production/broadcast then there are significant restrictions, the following is an excerpt from ITV guidance but similar applies to all UK production/broadcast: ITV Producers Handbook "There are many different...

For anyone who has not followed the Post Office/Horizon debacle and wants a moderately long read on the subject, Private Eye has summary of all its investigations going back over a decade: Justice Lost in the Post An aspect that hasn't recieved much attention is that the legal conditions for...

There's fundamental differences in the available narratives (the story a dramatist wants to tell) between the two the scenarios: 1. Jack the Giant Killer - where in GET is there an equivalent giant(s) to the UK PO, an international Tech company with $billion turnover, the UK legal system, and...

If a study starts with uncritical acceptance of the legitimacy of "central sensitivity syndromes" - it is already lost. Inactivity as a threat - wouldn't perhaps be "soothed" by GET by any chance ? Wellness - they've identified not being ill as "soothing" for er... being ill ??? And...

It depends on your model of disease. If you consider ME/CFS to be a condition frequent in the under 40s but with a high recovery rate, and as a disease of low incidence in older age groups, then indeed population prevalence would give a nice fat christmas tree with high levels at the base...

Disability News Service Devastating’ dossier shows DWP is in ‘state of crisis’ "The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a failing organisation in a “state of crisis” and faces a “near collapse” of its benefits systems, according to a “devastating” dossier of evidence from its own staff...

"Immunology is a lot more complicated than biochemists tend to think." :emoji_laughing:

Demand to publish meets clickbait. Should be in the "Journal of Pointless Lists." Author affialiation = 'School of Acupuncture-Moxibustion' !?!

Dragging my cold dead brain to answer this: Stephensen has 'misled the house' in the first para of his reply. The question clearly identifies "biomedical research" but the NIHR has not prior to DecodeME, funded any biomed - thread here...