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One would have thought that Wessely and Sharpe were bright enough to be alert to the dangers of quoting favourably from a paper without dissociating oneself from potentially damaging remarks. Does that The common factor about all these processes is that they are understandable and reversible...

She did say they are a "special interest group".

Apologies. I recognise tat all this presentation of quotes is a bit tedious-but it has to be done. In his chapter on chronic fatigue in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy book in 1997 Sharpe wrote Related physiological changes in muscle may at least in part explain exercise-associated muscular...

The one reference to Edwards 1986 paper in Wessely at als Cognitive Behaviour Management of PVFS in 1991 is As an additional benefit, useful physiological changes can be expected. After all, rest, with its inevitable deleterious effects on cardiac, respiratory and muscle physiology, is hardly...

To support my case for the concealment, whether accidental or deliberate, of papers related to effort syndrome I would quote History of Postviral Fatigue Syndrome S Wessely British Medical Bulletin (1991)vol 47 no 4pp 919-941 @p926 From its dominant position in the Surgeon General's Index...

Clearly they have an "effort syndrome" . Finally: Don’t give up hope. You can cure your Effort Syndrome if you really want to! https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0954-6820.1986.tb08948.x

Nowadays, the debate about the merits of rest versus activity is again raging. On the one hand those who write about postviral fatigue usually conclude with a statement along the lines of ' physical and mental exertion is to be avoided' (Anon, 1988). In particular, it is stated that exercise may...

Eureka! The Holy Grail has been discovered and after only thirty years. In Liverpool, not Glastonbury. There was always archaeological evidence but who would have thought it would be found under: Acta MED Scan Suppl. 1986;711:179-88. doi: 10.1111/j.0954-6820.1986.tb08948.x. Muscle Fatigue and...

It seems that some people's human rights are more equal than others'.

This is off the top of my head and so needs checking before quoting. She was a leading researcher at the Wistar Institute. Paul Cheney had Bell from Lyndonville send her some samples. She found what she thought was a new retrovirus and that she was eventually able to distinguish cases from...

Perhaps failure to hold one's breadth should be referred to a dietician.

It can't be ME. He hasn't had it six months yet. Somehow it magically transmogrifies on that date.

SMS is very common amongst high-flyers. Selective Memory Syndrome.

How long before they come up with symptoms being perpetuated by personal prior vulnerability? Has no-one told them yet. They should know about these things at John Hopkins.

That's interesting. Acute dissminated encephalomyelitis is what PK Thomas diagnosed in long-term RFH patients in 1987. The rest had better beware though. He thought their symptoms "volitional". https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(87)90033-X

I think we may have been "sold a dummy". I recall previous discussions of where the idea of exercise for ME originated, given Ramsay's firm views on the subject. My recollection is that it was thought to have been used in fibromyalgia and then transferred to CFS, by analogy. This paper on Effort...

This looks to be a paper which will never stop giving. Surprising that it should have been chosen by Chalder and Butler, presumably with the approval of Wessely and David, to explain GET for CFS. We thank the participants in this study and are grateful for support from the Muscular Dystrophy...

Just realised. It was Ellen DeFreitas' retrovirus.

I just thought I would highlight this part of the Margaret Williams paper as the question of ten seems to come up about blood transfusions, some thinking it related to XMRV but most thinking it is lost in the mist of time. This appears to be the evidence but the question of what might have...

It always seemed to be a failing of reporting that in the cases of long term sequelae after the epidemics we never knew if their was any correlation between severity of initial symptoms and severity of long term chronic symptoms. Were those initially most severely affected at the RFH the ones...