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

[Forbin]

As a GP struggling at the time with several patients suffering from chronic fatigue, I wrote an op-ed in the British Journal of General Practice entitled ‘The Dangers of Cartesian Dualism’.

You can read the full 2002 article here: https://bjgp.org/content/bjgp/52/478/432.full.pdf It begins on page 8 of the PDF.

Actually, the original British Journal of General Practice article was titled "The Dangers of Cartesian Fundamentalism," not "Cartesian Dualism," but earlier versions of the article had been published in Spiked and The Guardian a couple of months before, so perhaps "Dualism" somehow got turned into "Fundamentalism," along the way.

Anyway, the article begins auspiciously enough with a quote from everyone's favorite American-born Canadian historian, author, BDSM authority, and cross-appointed Professor of Psychiatry (who is neither a psychiatrist nor any other kind of physician), Edward Shorter, FRSC.

 

[Arnie Pye]

Edward Shorter, FRSC.

Federal Road Safety Commission?

 

[SNT Gatchaman]

Anyway, the article begins auspiciously enough with a quote from everyone's favorite American-born Canadian historian, author, BSDM authority, and cross-appointed Professor of Psychiatry (who is neither a psychiatrist nor a physician), Edward Shorter, FRSC.

Cool, yet another previous unknown for me to "enjoy". Before I start reading through some of the previous discussions, the minor typo must have fired a synapse off in my cheeky humour centre. I'm sure this joke* is old, but in case not:

As a cross-appointed Professor of Psychiatry, shouldn't that be... BDSM-V authority?

(Cue CSI Miami music)

*If I'm running with this, "gag" would have been the better word choice

 

[Sly Saint]

this has possibly been posted elsewhere



full thread


eta:for searching Melvin Ramsay letter 1989 Wessely

 

[Suffolkres]

Moved from the thread about Brian Hughes articles.

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The illness that it is ok to mock
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[Sean]

Excellent posts by Max Gallagher.

 

[bobbler]

I've not been able to find a book with this ‘Wessely lieutenant’ claim. But if it was written after Fitzpatrick wrote on ME/CFS in 2002, but before he had met Wessely, it must have been quickly written and published. Wessely appeared with Fitzpatrick at this Spiked event in May 2002:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030608101443/http://www.spiked-online.com/11September/index.stm

You can get a sense of Wessely's concerns from his Spiked article just before the conference: http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006D903.htm

As most will know, Wessely has a number of other associations with those connected to the Spiked/Living Marxism network.

The link didn't go to a page on the second one, but I found this article by him in same publication (following a court case where a soldier who fought in the GUlf War won on his osteoperosis being associated with a vaccine given for the war) interesting: https://www.spiked-online.com/2003/05/07/gulf-war-syndrome-the-sequel/

I don't think I'm reading into some of the inferences made suggesting ambulance chasing and every war has its own syndrome these days and now even before the war has started you have some army members spending the run-up focusing on their kit not being up to scratch etc etc..