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What's all this? Someone says they have a list? I'm appalled. Appalled. It's a death threat, I tell you. These allusions that they all like. Much less obscure than GBS. Gilbert and Sullivan. The Mikado. Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Of society offenders who never would be missed, I've...

The question which clearly now arises is: What action could Forward-ME take to persuade the informed patient population that it was receiving and acting on best advice in this controversial issue. I always find the lack of full stops in ME disconcerting.

From as long ago as 1922 in the shell shock report the terms "functional nerve disorder", "neurasthenia" and "neurosis" seem to have been used in such a way as to suggest that they were synonymous and interchangeable.

@DXrevisionwatch I am sure you will not feel obliged to answer this query if you feel constrained on the matter. Is the problem one of substance or of form? Is it about what has been said or written, or is it about how and where it appeared? In either case one would have expected a more...

It would be interesting to know from whom Forward ME are taking advice, or proposing to take advice, on the complex issues of coding, now that they have dispensed with the services of their generally acknowledged expert. Do they have a plan?

Could it be that rather than seek a response to this new intervention the been is simply quoting the response on a previous occasion that some similar point was made. Does anyone recall what was the last occasion that a group of alleged experts issued such a statement?

There seems to be a problem with "a statement" from "some leading researchers". What could be the process by which the BBC obtains such a statement from a group acting in concert. Does anyone believe that they contacted one researcher who phoned his friends to agree this? I agree with those who...

I must have been confused. A touch of the sun. Sorry about that. I am very sorry to see the way matters have unfolded, after all your work, on this subject which will be beyond the current reading endurance of most of us. One understands that tensions and disagreements will always arise...

Was I hallucinating yesterday when I imagined I saw another thread on a related subject, but of which there is now no sign. If the removal was at the request of the original poster, having had second thoughts, that would be absolutely fine. The only concern would be if there were some degree of...

@Bill I wonder whether you have looked at Ramsay's definition of ME recently. It is possible that you are under a misapprehension. He said that in less severe cases "muscle tenderness may not be so easily elicited but careful palpation of ....the muscle groups most commonly involved with the...

He should consider himself fortune that they did not send a big, hairy constable to seduce him.

I suspect that they are only concerned about behaviour of one researcher towards another member of the team.

Some might regard the reference to "scared laymen" as potentially pejorative. Not to mention "cavalier".

You would think that the original findings would have caused them to double and treble check the conclusions - unless they were more than happy with them.

The potential problem is, can one be sure that all cases where the treatment has had no effect, or adverse effect, have been properly monitored, recorded and reported?

The most puzzling aspect of this discussion is that we seem to be reinventing the wheel. I suggest that in the 1980s it was well appreciated that in order to pursue research in this field it was necessary to reduce the variables to a minimum. If abnormalities were then found in that group you...

This quotation from the report increases understanding of neurasthenia: The following was the procedure adopted during the later stages of the war. Early in 1917 all cases presenting symptoms of functional nervous disorder were sent to special hospitals as NYD. At these centres a...

Let us take this opportunity to reflect upon the words of Col JFC Fuller DSO. I think what one found out during the war was that we took in to start with a very high category of men and got them killed off and when towards the end of the war we wanted good fellows, then we got a very low...

One could say that.

@James Morris-Lent please try not to be rude about Trudie Chalder