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Is all this perfectionism and Type A personality stuff going to survive the queries raised by Pelosi about tobacco funding and the research of Eysenk and his collaborator? I know nothing about this, but rudimentary searches suggest that these concepts were all built upon tobacco based research...

This sounds a brilliant idea. Control the narrative by allowing an opponent to say what they like, and say nothing in response. Has such strategic vision been seen since the days of the Maginot Line? Or is there a cunning plan?

This is very revealing. Perhaps enquiry should be made of those commissioning this service as to under which of her purported areas of expertise they consider ME to fall: (ruling out unlikely ones) womens 'mental health, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, adjustment disorders, stress...

@Andy Can you amend that date? Its 1988. The seminal paper-where it all went wrong.

Let us hope that the article, if and when it appears, restricts itself solely to the science. It can then be rebutted on the science. There's a first time for everything.

@Andy I find that MEAction link rather strange. Is there any further context to it? It is not clear whether it is addressed to their members or whether there is some expectation that others will follow. It rather feels as though an anonymous group seeks to impose their views on all. I do find...

Typical ME. These relapsing/remitting patterns.

Is that not the absolute antithesis of what was said in about 1989 when it was decided that aetiology was unimportant and time should not be wasted searching for it.

Didn't Hennigsen who appears in that video appear on one of the MUS related ones.

It is hard to understand what sort of business people think they are in if they think it sufficient to read the abstracts. If they cannot be bothered to read full articles and even some of the papers referred to, to check that they provide the evidence they are purported to offer, then they...

Did he really say "Unfortunately some people decide to monitor their symptoms and can get trapped in vicious circles..."? Is anyone researching recidivism?

It is astonishing that a professor would not seek to address such criticism at the earliest opportunity either by acknowledging and correcting statements, or refuting the allegations.

I would draw attention to the closing remarks in the book Common Mental Disorders-a bio-social model by Goldberg and Huxley (1992). (CFS is clearly regarded as fitting the description.) There is now an explosion of knowledge about mental disorder, and it at last becomes possible to discern...

I am not sure that the patient is of any significance in this. It is the budget which is the determining factor. The patient merely gets in the way of the efficient expenditure of funds.

The overall impression given is that the sole interest is the implementation of policy without regard to the substance of the policy, its effects, or the evidence for it. It is all merely management. There seems little regard for the clinical.

I don't feel able to reread all the posts about Blanchflower. Was it ever mentioned that his work seems to be mentioned approvingly by Richard Layard. (I presume that all know of Layard's connection to the IAPT project.) In 2005 Layard published the book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science...

I trust that you were well enough to tell him that you would always remember him as a complete everyday bodily function.

There cn be no reason for not having an investigation...….now that he's dead.

Perhaps what is needed is a study to investigate any correlation between childhood trauma and the likelihood of becoming a psychiatrist.

Possibly so, but that does not invalidate the question "What charities?".