Cheshire
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Nonetheless, we can certainly say that Mr Liddle is very much on the side of the silenced scientists. I won’t quote him directly. Instead, I will direct you to Frances Ryan’s eloquent riposte over at The Guardian, where she identifies the vilification of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients as just yet another form of 21st-century hate speech.
But won’t somebody please think of those poor scientists?
Who are they, exactly? Well, here’s an old group photo that contains some of them:
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A group of people who were definitely *not* trolling anybody.
(Pic: Adapted from @BenMcNevis via Twitter)
Yep, there they are, attending a meeting on “Malingering and Illness Deception” way back in 2001 (and yes, I edited the image to blur their faces and remove their names, as a courtesy).
For 20 years, they have promoted a psychogenic model of ME/CFS. Their theory dismisses sufferers as psychiatric patients whose condition is all in the mind, rather than persons debilitated by authentic physical illness or disease.
But those terms though. “Malingering“? “Illness Deception“? Seriously? Even if the psychogenic theory were true, such labels are not very nice ways to describe patients. You might even consider them, well, abusive.
https://notthesciencebit.net/2019/0...f-trolling-you/amp/?__twitter_impression=true