Funding for KCL Centre for Military Research

[JohnTheJack]

Article in Private Eye 1557, 01/10/2021.

 

[Invisible Woman]

I guess it depends on how you define conflict of interest and if you feel the need to declare it. Again. Depending on how who you are, of course.

 

[Suffolkres]

Shows that for certain favoured academic grants the gravy train just keeps on giving.....

 

[Hutan]

This reminds me that the sole ME/CFS patient on the Cochrane Exercise Review team is Kay Hallsworth. In 2019 she wrote

Thankfully, my fantastic GP at HMS Excellent, and the team at DMRC (Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre) Stanford Hall, identified the underlying cause of my relapse. With medication, treatment and a rehabilitation programme, I am now looking at a full-time return to work in the summer.

She subsequently took up a role as Operations Manager of the Association of Royal Navy Officers Royal Navy Officers' Charity.

I think we have established that Kay has links with BPS proponents including Wessely and parts of the military interested in managing contested illnesses.

What I have been shocked by is the idea that a trawl by you of the internet for a non activist, possibly who also met some secret criteria on their opinions about exercise (different from that of 'activists?), was considered the appropriate method of finding the sole patient to join the review writing panel. Can you see how very odd (to put it politely) that looks?