Michael Sharpe skewered by @JohntheJack on Twitter

petrichor said:
I really don't see why these tweets need much analysis
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It's more like gossiping over Kim Kardashian's social media than real analysis. [edit: And I don't mean that as a criticism]

Sharpe has shown he is unwilling or unable to engage in any substantive discussions about PACE, but he's still a figure who has had a great deal of influence over the lives of people here, and who continues to smear those making criticisms of PACE, so his funny ways are going to be of interest.
 
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petrichor said:
I really don't see why these tweets need much analysis
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These tweets demonstrate that he is either a complete hypocrite, or more likely, that his lack of self-awareness is bordering on delusional. Considering the harm he has caused, it is worth recording them. They are also free entertainment, and since he has done nothing else for us, we might as well avail ourselves of the free laughs that he provides. Not that any of this is really very funny.

I agree that they don't need much analysis.
 
Mm. I don't think this usage of right and duty has to do with legal constructs. I think it is an older ethical idea, is it not? Those who have power or resources have an ethical obligation to use them well. That turns up in rules of accountability within organisations but I don't think it is a legal issue. I had never heard of Hohfeld but was very familiar with the idea of a right/duty link.
 
Is there any right to search for truth, or is that contingent upon one's whereabouts, and the time in which one lives? It may be that he just meant "The search for truth implies a duty etc." and the words "The right to" are otiose
 
chrisb said:
That last quote appears to show muddled thinking by Einstein, whoever thought it worthy of inscribing in stone, and Sharpe.
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I don't think it is. It's about not using partial truths to very convincingly imply falsehoods. Something MS and his fellow BPS colleagues have more or less turned into a psychological science all of its own; the technique is as old as the hills of course, but these folks look to be taking it to a new level.
 
Well. I've been through two decades of him and his ilk using their position and education to make wild assumptions about me, based on how I behave when my life has fallen apart because I'm sick. My motivation has been thoroughly questioned.

I think it understandable that we should weigh his words against his actions. He's a psychiatrist. He knows each tweet will reveal something about him.

Us guessing and attributing motives and meanings isn't very scientific, but it is as scientific as their analysis of us.

Except of course our words don't carry the same weight - no risk of loss of access to healthcare, benefits, etc.
 
One wonders what Sharpe is thinking now.

This is from a 2011 thread on PR

Illustrations of threats Issued by Simon Wessely

https://forums.phoenixrising.me/ind...ons-of-threats-issued-by-simon-wessely.11631/


"In October 2003, an article in The Scotsman (Doctors Notes: ME sufferers have found an enemy in Wessely so they need friends: The Scotsman, 6th October 2003) by Dr Margaret Cook, former wife of the late Robin Cook MP, accurately portrayed the significance of Wesselys role in the misperception of ME/CFS."

"You can tell from every sentence of his letter that he is used to dictating principles and having everyone in his orbit humbly accept his gospel. If I needed persuading that the ME community merited my support, this letter and its author would convince me. When you have enemies like him, you need a powerful lot of friends."

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(c) 2003 The Scotsman
 
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