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i think it is worth juxtaposing this post with a copy of this 2001 document of the Insurance Bureau of Canada IBC TO LAUNCH NEW HEALTH CARE GUIDE FOR CLAIMS PROFESSIONALS - Insurance-Canada.ca - Where Insurance & Technology Meet IBC TO LAUNCH NEW HEALTH CARE GUIDE FOR CLAIMS PROFESSIONALS Oct...

Doesn't this episode show what is wrong with the "scientific" literature? Repeated mistakes of this nature would not occur if people were going back and reading the original source. It is easy to read the huge lists of citations which some people offer and imagine they are familiar with the...

To revert to the question of SW's lecture on an unknown date and the suggestions of involvement with the Canadian insurance industry, this document provides much clearer evidence of the involvement of Arthur Cott of the Behavioural Medicine Centre at McMaster and Prisma Health. IBC TO LAUNCH NEW...

I forgot to add thatthis discovery of Cott's association with Prisma Health makes it important to discover what, exactly, was the Prisma to which Wessely acknowledged he gave unpaid advice and assistance round about 2001. He did say Prisma and not Prisma Health. There is a different PRISMA...

I have found a little more to add to that. In the course of researching my new found interest in Arthur Cott and the Behavioural Medicine Centre at McMaster (BMC), I serendipitously came across this document: IBC TO LAUNCH NEW HEALTH CARE GUIDE FOR CLAIMS PROFESSIONALS - Insurance-Canada.ca -...

The trouble with Gerrada's article is that the fact that a complaint was made against her father is not very good evidence of professional misconduct. The fact that he was cleared by the GMC is not very good evidence of innocence. So that seems to be the normally accepted standard of proof for...

There seems to be a precedent on which that claim might be based. It might be recalled that McEvedy and Beard claimed that the case for hysteria had not had a fair hearing. This despite the fact that Acheson had set out in detail the refutations of the idea. By making that claim it enabled them...

Yes. The work of Arthur Cott and his department seems worthy of closer scrutiny. And will receive it when I feel up to it.

It was not the views of the author which interest me. It was that the BMJ provided a platform for them, and pinned its colours so firmly to the mast, almost before there was renewed controversy on the subject. One could reasonably take the view that the BMJ instigated it. Such articles serve...

This gets to the root of the problem. I think it stems from the movement in the early 1980's to demedicalise "illness", and leave only "disease" as the "proper" realm of medicine. This was the basis of the illness/disease dichotomy. Illness was only behaviour and was to be dealt with by...

"Knowledge" is a tricky word, isn't it?

It could be sold in a suitable range of camouflage colours and patterns.

Hasn't the BMJ always done this sort of thing? Who can forget Caroline Richmond's Princess Aurora and the wandering womb? Myalgic encephalomyelitis, Princess Aurora, and the wandering womb. (nih.gov)

That is unexpected. Hawton, a professor at Leiden. It is perhaps worth noting part of the Preface to Chronic Fatigue and its syndromes by Wessely, Hotopf and Sharpe: His (Sharpe's) researches have been guided and supported by Keith Hawton, Michael Gelder and Tim Peto.

Have the fingerprints of the SMC yet been found? He is clearly not organising this media access without assistance, even allowing for the lemming-like instincts of the media.

Does that not say it all? Weren't Wessely and Chalder studying for master's degrees in 1988?

It seems strange for a Professor of the LSTM to believe that because he thinks his own symptoms were due to hypochondriasis, therefore everybody else's might be. EDITED to remove the H

Isn't mitochondrial DNA inherited from the mother? In so far as these disorders may be inherited, is there any indication of inheritance down the female line? Or have I misunderstood?

Thanks for this post @Arvo and the ones on the other thread. I am trying to assimilate this new information. It is taking time. I wonder whether this subject needs a thread of its own for better understanding. I was aware from an obituary of J K Wing that there was formal collaboration, or...

...but one of Wessely's first studies (with Powell in 1988 or 89) found that about a quarter to a third (I forget the precise numbers) suffered from neither anxiety nor depression.