In light of recent events I thought this was important. " In England and Wales, you can be detained in hospital against your will if you are...
Raised on another thread. https://dpac.uk.net/2018/02/protest-against-iapt-therapies/ I have mixed feelings about this. "The Alliance for...
The connections between government and the insurance business in their joint project to reduce eligibility for sickness benefits....
Oxford criteria - should papers using it be excluded This is a subject that has been raised a lot, so I thought it might be good to have a...
I thought this was worth reposting for people who may have missed it at the time. He says "the PACE trial remains an excellent trial and a model...
http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/jnnp/52/8/940.full.pdf Journal ofNeurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1989;52:940-948 Fatigue syndromes: a...
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...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4967779/ I'm sure I've discussed this paper previously, but seeing others complaining recently about...
This leads on from a discussion elsewhere, so might seem odd out of context, but there you go. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n16/sarah-rigby/diary I...
Following on from Nathalie Wrights article in the Independent. "Actually, I think this has been coming for a long time, but it just might have...
http://www.margaretwilliams.me/2017/thirty-year-retrospective.pdf The incalculable contribution to medical science of Regius Professor Sir Simon...
Note that this is not a new study. Full text at http://sci-hub.bz/10.1017/s1352465800015241 Chalder T, Butler S, Wessely S. In-patient...
Doctor wins 2017 John Maddox prize for countering HPV vaccine misinformation The Guardian Previous winners include the psychiatrist Simon Wessely,...
Background Information This is the first in what will hopefully become a series of threads with quotations from various doctors, researchers, and...
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,...
As part of the Mental Health Act Review in England and Wales, Professor Sir Simon Wessley has specifically asked for your opinion, as psychiatric...
ICYMI Sir Professor Simon Wessely got all misty eyed on Twitter [MEDIA] James Coyne was not impressed [MEDIA]
'Wessely has consistently promoted the unsubstantiated suggestion that ME is caused or maintained by patients’ false illness beliefs and abnormal...
Over 60 medical professionals, campaigners and organisations have written to Theresa May, urging her to reconsider the appointment of a well-known...
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