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I'm sorry I can't accept that, he has to actually offer a cup of tea to a real person. Whilst researching the chances of me losing my bet my new paper - Gender Differences in the Incidence of Proferred Beverages, a Narrative Review - I came across the following paper, which is fascinating for...

Ok if anyone can find a reference to Simon Wessely offering a cup to tea to someone I'll donate $50 to #MEAction. $100 if the person he offered the tea to was a man. I need data, dammit.

:rofl::rofl::rofl: Hey, this is a thing! Maybe he has a rule never to offer the same drink twice? Or maybe only men get alcohol - wine and beer, and women get water or coffee. I shall develop this and write a paper.

Well that was an interesting scientific debate, thanks. We do realise you live a busy life and have to be off somewhere important. I think he offered James Coyne a bottle of wine if memory serves, but only if Coyne could prove that Wessely had really said something. An analysis of who he...

Wessely has just tweeted it himself. Unbelievable innit? He actually still believes that that is the last word on PACE and explains everything, and is still referring people to it. It's almost as if, once he has written something, it can never be wrong. How can someone who has slimed his way to...

Ugh.

Well we don't often see Michael Sharpe shut up and back away, so that's an achievement in itself @Lou Corsius :thumbup:

Do I really have to battle?

OMG I can't believe it that describes me perfectly too!

Interesting that even an opponent of psychosomatic theory bought into the type A personality thing. I really wish that instead of aguing about which personality type is / is not most affected, more people would question whether talking in terms of personality traits of of any use whatsoever, not...

I don't think so, they understood his tweets perfectly. I'm sure with 32,000 tweets to his name Godwin is well aware that he occasionally rubs people up the wrong way by coming over as preachy, it can't be the first time. For all we know it might be the part of the exchange he relishes most, he...

Well it sounds like they are all still engaging with each other, so maybe things aren't as bad as they appeared during that heated full and frank exchange.

It's twitter.

I've just realised that if I click on the little bird I am able to read the whole exchange :).

I'm unable to read the full exchange which led to this, so am not sure of the context or what it means exactly. And when that presumption has been thoroughly rebutted and years have passed, do we still have to accept lessons in humility?

I agree completely. Complain about your physical ailments too soon, or too often, and there seems to be no shortage of people around to call you a bit of a wimp, a little flower, etc etc, either at the time, or for years afterwards.

It should say this: The top version only makes sense if: 1. All women are rich, or 2. All woman are poor, or 3. the word "patients" only applies to men, and women are just women and not to be referred to as "patients", and low-income patients are not real men. Don't mention it, and I'm not...

Just seen this: Oh good, because the evidence is all there.

An excellent and very welcome analysis from @Mike Godwin. I'm having a little trouble with the last bit though: Eminently sensible. But it's been thirty years, many have lost half their lives due to these heroes of their own stories, and they have not given an inch, but rather stuck the boot in...

I wonder whether Mr Godwin should be asked if he has another law relating to derailing a debate by comparing those who disagree with you to militant terrorists? Either with or without reference to Afghanistan.