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  1. Andy
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    Advice from 'experts' on post-viral fatigue following Covid-19 (NHS Oxford Health, Science Media Centre, ...)

    Not a recommendation. Introduction This leaflet is one of a series about Coronavirus and mental health. The leaflets contain information about...
    Thread by: Andy, Apr 15, 2020, 75 replies, in forum: Epidemics (including Covid-19)
  2. Three Chord Monty
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    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...
    Thread by: Three Chord Monty, Oct 3, 2019, 39 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  3. Estherbot
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    Claire Fox (Fiona's sister)

    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...
    Thread by: Estherbot, Apr 24, 2019, 34 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  4. Andy
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    Disabled People Against Cuts: Biopsychosocial lobby and right wing media attack #pwme

    ME activist Catherine Hale explains: “It’s the usual pattern: a spurious story about CFS researchers getting online harassment and having to quit...
    Thread by: Andy, Mar 19, 2019, 1 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  5. MSEsperanza
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    'E-cigarettes help more smokers quit than patches and gum' (30.01.2019) Kelland / Reuters

    Science Media Centre: Expert reaction to randomised, controlled trial of ecigs vs NRT in smoking cessation (30.01.2019) Research published in The...
    Thread by: MSEsperanza, Feb 1, 2019, 32 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  6. Kalliope
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    David Tuller: Trial By Error: More Thoughts on the Interferon Study

    More Thoughts on the Interferon Study I was surprised recently when the UK press made a big splash about what was, in the end, a modest study...
    Thread by: Kalliope, Jan 7, 2019, 7 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  7. Andy
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    Blog: Changing the narrative #1: exploring a new approach to strategic communications in the ME community, by Valerie Eliot Smith

    Introduction I started writing this blog in 2012. For several years since then, I have kept starting drafts on a particular topic, only to then...
    Thread by: Andy, Jan 7, 2019, 181 replies, in forum: Advocacy Projects and Campaigns
  8. Andy
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    Fiona Fox (SMC) blog: "don’t be complacent about the gains we have made"

    This week I had the honour of being made an honorary fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. A number of the press officers and scientists in...
    Thread by: Andy, Dec 19, 2018, 27 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  9. hinterland
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    Scientists must keep fighting fake news, says Fiona Fox of SMC in The Guardian

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/sep/03/scientists-must-keep-fighting-fake-news-not-retreat-to-their-ivory-towers Scientists have...
    Thread by: hinterland, Sep 3, 2018, 11 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  10. Indigophoton
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    David Tuller: Trial by Error: My exchange with Professor Bishop

    I recently wrote to Oxford University neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop, who had provided a statement to the Science Media Centre about the...
    Thread by: Indigophoton, Jun 26, 2018, 19 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  11. Robert 1973
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    CDC responds to false SMC factsheet claim

    On 26 March I sent to following question to the CDC: ‘A recently published "factsheet" about "CFS/ME" by the UK Science Media Centre states:...
    Thread by: Robert 1973, May 28, 2018, 31 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  12. Andy
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    Forward-ME Group Letter to the Science Media Centre, April 2018

    Forward-ME Group Chair, The Countess of Mar, has written on behalf of the members of the Group to the Chief Executive of the Science Media Centre...
    Thread by: Andy, Apr 5, 2018, 2 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  13. Barry
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    Issues reported about the Science Media Centre (SMC), not just ME-related

    @Sly Saint 's post here ......
    Thread by: Barry, Mar 24, 2018, 39 replies, in forum: Advocacy Projects and Campaigns
  14. Cheshire
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    Science Media Centre CFS/ME factsheet for journalists: The illness and the controversy

    They're not giving up yet... Don't know why they're doing that right now. Could it have something to do with the paper to be released in the next...
    Thread by: Cheshire, Mar 21, 2018, 156 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS News
  15. Sly Saint
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    The Royal Society of Medicine presents '21st Century Healthcare', a collaboration with ITN Productions

    I have only just become aware of this and although I suspected that the SMC connection(ie SW) was at play with regards to Channel 4 News, Channel...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Jan 29, 2018, 15 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  16. Andy
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    Blog: David Tuller, "Trial By Error: My Questions for the Science Media Centre"

    On September 20, 2017, a BMJ Publishing Group journal, Archives of Disease in Childhood published the SMILE trial. This trial investigated an...
    Thread by: Andy, Dec 18, 2017, 22 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  17. Andy
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    Fiona Fox (SMC) blog: Research councils: Independence once lost, is hard to recover

    I can't tell if she's being ironic or not, in blogging how important it is to have independence for researchers. Michael Gove is shaping up to be...
    Thread by: Andy, Nov 27, 2017, 13 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  18. Esther12
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    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,...
    Thread by: Esther12, Nov 7, 2017, 960 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  19. Cheshire
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    John The Jack / A Response to Fiona Fox

    This is in response to the blog post by Fiona Fox who was reacting to criticism of the Science Media Centre (SMC) for its support of the SMILE...
    Thread by: Cheshire, Oct 20, 2017, 6 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
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