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It isn't the legal department's job to supervise anybody, or take a view on political/scientific matters. They merely take instructions from Bristol University and represent Bristol University's interests. At the moment that seems to mean taking instructions from EC and representing her...

Keep increasing until you crash? This is guaranteed to perpetuate a push-crash cycle. There's no "If you don't crash" about it - at some point you will crash, guaranteed. Terrible advice. How about: 1. Reduce your activity and keep reducing it. If you are very fortunate you may be able to...

Well if we're speculating wildly, how about every time the legal department gets an email, all they do is check with Esther? This time Esther could have said "Ok no I didn't send a cease and desist letter, but my boss has had a word with his boss and boy is he in big trouble now!" Which the...

Choosing physics to try and get away with shit like that wasn't his brightest idea.

Bad assumption. I suspect she is in way over her neck. Bristol Uni are probably priding themselves on showing loyalty to one of their star researchers, but blind loyalty without checking the facts is going to get them into deep shit. Trying to do the British old-boy "we've had a word" with an...

Most satisfactory to see this kind of stuff being examined properly. I used to enjoy reading popular psychology, Malcolm Gladwell and co, but I'm coming to the conclusion that most of it is just fluffy entertainment with no real substance. Which is a shame, because as I said, I used to enjoy...

Sounds like they'd be proud of themselves.

She's being ironic without realising it. It happens a lot when anyone in her gang opens their mouth.

I was very pleased with the article until I read this advice: Which is downright dangerous and irresponsible. I wonder what the recommended way of preventing a ME sufferer from taking a nap is? I can't think of one that wouldn't be cruel and abusive. Also, the cartoon character at the top has...

I really don't get the distinction. If she had preceded her remark with "I know I'm being terribly silly and fussy, but ..." then maybe, but in the absence of that she's implying that she's justifiably worried because in her expert opinion it's likely that the militants will attack her children...

Nice. SMC obviously doesn't bother with the Isle of Man.

Apparently EC has put in a grant application to assess mortality in parrots by doing an owners' plumage assessment by telephone.

Wessely's weasel-words from 2015: For someone whose ship is such a thing of beauty, he seems remarkably keen to be prepared to jump off it when the time comes.

Wessely is trying to stop his followers gloating because he's finally realised how counter-productive it is, having ended up with egg on his face every time he's opened his mouth recently. Anything else he or the SMC said would only lead to them being taken apart and made to look as stupid as...

They'll say you're not doing it properly, you should be doing it under the guidance of a trained therapist. If that doesn't work, they'll say your therapist isn't doing it properly, or you aren't co-operating properly, or you can't have ME/CFS otherwise you'd be improving. They have an answer...

Girl takes constipation remedy and gets shit-faced. I thought my Friday evenings were bad.

I don't like the whole "check your privileges" thing - it's too close to an ad hominem attack for my liking. "You don't understand me because you're privileged" is just resorting to name-calling, if you've got a point to make it then just make it without getting personal. This article is full of...

Is there an outbreak of nutraceutical studies using Fukuda, a fatigue scale and 10 CFS patients at the moment? Has someone recently started selling a "Do it yourself CFS study kit" on ebay, special discount for the first 10 takers? Is some enterprising patent lawyer giving them away as freebies...

Just wondering how you know you would be going down faster without the Nimotop?

Yes, that's the one. Rather helpfully defines PEM/Fatigue as: Is that what the FSS accurately and objectively measures? Also mentions and defines sleep dysfunction, pain, neurological / cognitive manifestations, autonomic manifestations, neuroendocrine manifestations and immune...