fiona fox

"Colin Blakemore (1944–2022) Neuroscientist, science communicator and advocate for openness in research." "In the 2010s, a small, outspoken group of campaigners demanded the retraction of MRC-funded research into chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, which found...

You may be aware that the head of the Science Media Centre is Fiona Fox. Her sister is Claire Fox who recently approved her support of the lovely Michael Sharpe and the SMC. Well, the ex communinist is now standing an an MEP for Nigel Farage's new Brexit party...

The science media centre has played an important role in stigmatising CFS patients, and anyone critical of PACE and related work, so it's always interesting to look at how they present themselves. Someone sent me this old report recently, and while it's not that interesting or relevant to us, I...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/sep/03/scientists-must-keep-fighting-fake-news-not-retreat-to-their-ivory-towers

Following the publication of the Forward-ME group letter to the Science Media Centre (SMC) to (http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2018/04/forward-me-to-science-media-centre-retract-and-replace-your-factsheet-on-cfs-me-05-april-2018/) @JohnTheJack helped me to track down an old article written by...

I can't tell if she's being ironic or not, in blogging how important it is to have independence for researchers. http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/research-councils-independence-once-lost-is-hard-to-recover/

You may have heard of it? At the other place, some of us wrote a word or two about it. I thought it might be good to have a thread for PACE chats, or for new people to ask questions, that didn't necessarily relate to important new papers, or anything that warranted a new thread. I could post...

https://johnthejack.com/2017/10/20/a-response-to-fiona-fox/