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CDC responds to false SMC factsheet claim

Discussion in 'General ME/CFS news' started by Robert 1973, May 28, 2018.

  1. Luther Blissett

    Luther Blissett Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Would be interesting to find out if they alerted any Journalists who relied on their factsheet for copy. It's usually considered standard to describe what has been updated and why.
     
  2. Forbin

    Forbin Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Other great moments in backtracking...

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  3. Inara

    Inara Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    This is such a huge change!
     
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  4. Wonko

    Wonko Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    and should be seen as evidence...of something...possibly, a deliberately attempting to cause harm, to people, for the purposes of profit, although not necessarily their own, which was modified only when they realised they were no longer totally in charge. IMO these people should be, if not imprisoned, then at least fined into their organisations bankruptcy, and barred from holding positions in healthcare or publishing.

    But...no one cares, in the UK, what is done to ill and disabled people, in fact the worse the behaviour it seems the more it is tacitly accepted and encouraged, provided the wrong sort of public/press attention isn't attracted.
     
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  5. Inara

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  6. Daisymay

    Daisymay Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Excellent work Robert1973, thanks!
     
  7. dave30th

    dave30th Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Right, I've thought of drawing up a PACE/CBT/GET "dictionary" of terms and phrases that mean things other than what they mean in standard English. As in accusing other of "tweaking" the recovery criteria when these supposed "tweakers" were just untweaking what the PACE team unacceptably tweaked themselves in the first place. Or their definition of "recovery" is actually "remission." Etc.
     
  8. Sean

    Sean Moderator Staff Member

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    Any remaining doubt about their lack of integrity and honour vanished with that stunt from them.

    It was a bald face lie.
     
  9. Alvin

    Alvin Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    That would be a great article :)
     
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  10. Robert 1973

    Robert 1973 Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    I see that the Countess of Mar has now reported the SMC to the charities commission. Minutes of the last Forward ME meeting state:
    Forward ME minutes: http://www.forward-me.org.uk/1st May 2018.htm

    Discussion of Forward ME minutes on S4ME: https://www.s4me.info/threads/forward-me-group-minutes-1st-may-2018.4384/
     
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  11. Robert 1973

    Robert 1973 Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Reply from the CDC CFS Program:
    “The CDC CFS program did not have correspondence with the SMC.”
     
  12. Esther12

    Esther12 Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    That's interesting. Thanks Robert. Weird that this was the only line they corrected.
     

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