harassment

  1. Hutan

    2012 Letter to the Independent on harassment of researchers

    IoS letters, emails & online postings (2 December 2012) https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/ios-letters-emails-online-postings-2-december-2012-8373777.html Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME is a debilitating condition affecting some 1 per cent of the UK population (“ME: bitterest row yet in...
  2. Kalliope

    Norway: Article about ME seminar with security

    The newspaper Morgenbladet has a paywalled article today about a recent ME seminar in Oslo. The title is: Seminar for ME researchers required security and police on standby: - They are trying to get us The article begins with psychology professor and the organiser for the seminar Silje Endresen...
  3. Esther12

    Nature - Online harassment: a toolkit for protecting yourself from abuse

    I think this is worth reading all of: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02766-w Posting because it includes a link to the Andrew Anthony Guardian piece on Sharpe: There's also this Nature editorial introducing it: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02818-1 These pieces...
  4. Dolphin

    (Daily Telegraph) “How I became a target for the ME militants” by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

    paywalled https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/doctors-diary/became-target-militants/ How I became a target for the ME militants The current row over Nice guidelines on chronic fatigue syndrome is strikingly similar to the one I found myself caught up in 20 years ago DR MICHAEL...
  5. freddyV

    Harassment claims in the media and social media.

    This post has been copied and the following discussion moved from this thread: What we're not being told about ME - UnHerd (Tom Chivers) With reference to ME sufferers turning up and harassing researchers... Really? After 35 years of illness, I count it as a win to get up and in to my garden...
  6. Obermann

    BPS proponents don't respond well to criticism

    Proponents of a biopsychosocial view of ME/CFS don’t respond well to criticism. Last autumn, Dr. Jörgen Malmquist published a book on ME/CFS in Swedish. It was available at the website bokus.com. I wrote a review; and, as it is a bad book that is full of misconceptions, the review was negative...
  7. Andy

    Blog: "The Death Threat Myth Exposed", Jennie Spotila

    Last week, an old story was recounted to a new audience. During the March 30, 2021 NIH telebriefing with the ME/CFS community, Dr. Vicky Whittemore said that there had been death threats against grant reviewers in the past, and that this was one reason why NIH is now withholding the names of...
  8. Marky

    Video: "The ME scandal"

    Hey Someone anonymous from Norway have produced a very thorough two part series on different topics (PACE, Lightning Process etc.) It has english subtitles so everyone can watch
  9. Sly Saint

    Article: 'Is standing up for expertise a fool’s errand?' - Simon Wessely still being portrayed as the 'victim'

    Article: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/standing-expertise-fools-errand
  10. T

    SMC: Advice for Researchers Experiencing Harassment

    https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Advice-for-Researchers-Experiencing-Harrasment-2019.pdf "All researchers should expect their work to be scrutinised by the public, policy makers and campaigners. However, some researchers working on high-profile subjects that...
  11. Andy

    Per Fink awarded the "Civil Courage" prize, Sept 2019

  12. Adam pwme

    Response to Michael Sharpe’s claims of harassment

    Transcript: BBC Today Programme March 2019 (clip) An Oxford professor has stopped his work on chronic fatigue syndrome also known as ME because he says he's faced a barrage of online abuse from patients and campaigners. Some context… (slide) Over 80 Charities are opposed to his treatments...
  13. JemPD

    The i newspaper: CFS how online abuse is halting research

    Jst scanning the front pages this mornin, to be sucker punched with this. i cant find the story online but i not too good so maybe someone ese can track it dowm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-47701676 scroll down to see it, bottom thumb nal on the i front page :(
  14. Cheshire

    Brian Hughes - If you spend 20 years gaslighting your patients, perhaps you should think twice before accusing *them* of trolling *you*

    https://notthesciencebit.net/2019/03/21/if-you-spend-20-years-gaslighting-your-patients-perhaps-you-should-think-twice-before-accusing-them-of-trolling-you/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
  15. Andy

    ME charities' response to the Reuters article

    The following posts have been moved from the Reuters thread. Anybody else think that our UK charities have been rather lacklustre during the last week? A rare example I understand not wanting to fuel Sharpe's efforts by linking to his article more than necessary BUT of course it did blow up...
  16. Kalliope

    The Canary: The establishment media has launched a vicious "war" on chronically ill people

    Fréa Lockley: The establishment media has launched a vicious "war" on chronically ill people The media has upped the ante on a vicious and abusive war on chronically ill people. Doctors involved in the controversial PACE trial have lashed out, claiming they can’t continue their work because of...
  17. Andy

    Disabled People Against Cuts: Biopsychosocial lobby and right wing media attack #pwme

    https://dpac.uk.net/2019/03/biopsychosocial-lobby-and-right-wing-media-attack-pwme/
  18. Andy

    M.E. Patients and the Researchers that Silence Them by Laura Elliott

    https://medium.com/@lcelliott2/m-e-patients-and-the-researchers-that-silence-them-c2b81111ee0
  19. rvallee

    Threats, cyber-bullying now targeting scientists who study Chronic Fatigue Syndrome… when will free speech about science be allowed to exist again?

    I hesitate to put "not a recommendation" because the article is so bad it almost makes some kind of other point than the PR campaign meant. When you have allies like Natural News and Rod Liddle... It's completely pointless to read for the substance, it almost reads like a parody. I particularly...
  20. Hip

    Are Wessely, Sharpe & Co psychologically manipulating gullible journalists into writing articles that present them in a good light?

    I often get the impression that Prof Simon Wessely, Prof Michael Sharpe and others from the Wessely School of psychiatrists prey on naive young journalists. I suspect these psychiatrists are using their skills in psychology to butter up the journalist, perhaps over a few beers in a bar, playing...
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