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You might wish to amend that. It could be misconstrued.

Not necessarily. He says he became ill in 2007. The Times article is in 2011. He may be just one of those who recovered within three years. Nothing unusual there.

Is Kleinman still around? This sounds like his subject area.

Seeing this made me scratch my head. I noticed no improvement.

I suppose that coincidences sometimes innocently occur.

Is it sufficient to look at "normal range". Don't you need to make an assessment or estimation of each persons pre-illness levels and judge recovery for the individual as a percentage of that?

It would have been interesting to hear him opine on the political aspects of the illness. He might have shed light on those letters from Wessely and White to Aylward in 1993. That conference he attended with Aylward and LoCascio would be worth discussing. Then he might have touched upon the...

Can you believe it? Somewhere there is a department, with a budget, tasked with sorting and evaluating all these claims. Does it remind you of those primary school assemblies attended, when all gain certificates? EDit a lot has intervened between this and the post which I was responding to...

It is not clear from the report when Sharpe is alleged to have said that. Do we know?

There is a danger in falling foul of the twist to the McNamara doctrine. As you will know the original was "Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure". The twist is "If you can't measure what is important, make important what you can measure".

Surely there is no way of measuring the underlying condition. You might measure the amount of activity undertaken, but that is not the underlying condition. That may be an effect of the underlying condition, but there could be other variables affecting it.

I thought Canute had refuted that hypothesis.

It's that old saying: doctors get to bury their mistakes.

I recently came across complaints in the correspondence section of the BMJ in 1993 about their approach to ME or it might have been PVFS. If I rediscover it I will post it. However when following up on that I came across these criticisms by Ellen (EDIT for typo) Goudsmit...

I wonder what the probability of the one reviewer who was out of line being known to us is. EDIT would one not expect the chief executive to have ensured a fair and proper procedure, or have I missed something?

Wasn't there a group of researchers around 200/2004 rather like the CMRC but without the baggage, including people like Mowbray, Tyrell and others who could not get funded for anything because PACE took all available money?

I didn't bother with my MP. Before the last election I had a little Scotsman knock on the door and say your MP is in the area and would you like to meet him. I said yes, certainly, but must have seemed too enthusiastic as he visibly shied away and asked if there was anything in particular I...

It plays into the "eggshell personality" narrative.

I thought the names David, Wessely and Pelosi were deeply embedded in the brains of all ME sufferers. Perhaps it 's just me.

How times change. I got into trouble for suggesting that a quick google of psychiatrists in Glasgow would be revealing