Gary Burgess on his ME

[Barry]

The SMC is also the go to source for information. They have been very heavily biased toward the BPS view of ME and Wessely has fingers in both pies.

By which of course you mean the supposed go to source of information.

And of course Wessely is very influential in the SMC ...

http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/about-us/governance/

governance

TRUSTEES
The board of Trustees is the major decision-making body of the Science Media Centre and meets at least three times a year. Trustees are distinguished in the fields of science, engineering, medicine, journalism, communications, finance, law and policy.
...
Prof. Sir Simon Wessely
Professor of Psychological Medicine, Kings College London

 

[MeSci]

By which of course you mean the supposed go to source of information.

And of course Wessely is very influential in the SMC ...

http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/about-us/governance/

governance

TRUSTEES
The board of Trustees is the major decision-making body of the Science Media Centre and meets at least three times a year. Trustees are distinguished in the fields of science, engineering, medicine, journalism, communications, finance, law and policy.
...
Prof. Sir Simon Wessely
Professor of Psychological Medicine, Kings College London

I note that below it says "The Trustees are guided by a voluntary group of advisors from the fields of science, engineering, medicine, journalism and communications..."

which includes:

James Gallagher
Health Editor, BBC News

Jeremy Laurance
Former Health Editor, The Independent and the i

Lawrence McGinty
Former Science Editor, ITV News

Fay Schlesinger
Home Editor, The Times

and several other influential people like:

Seil Collins
Media Relations Manager, The Lancet

Luke Blair
Vice President Communications and Public Affairs, Imperial College London