Michael Sharpe skewered by @JohntheJack on Twitter

Sharpe clarifies what he means by objective,
https://twitter.com/user/status/986291765547294723

https://twitter.com/user/status/987239949777940480

This sounds like it's recommending boom and bust?

 

Julie Rehmeher attempts to pin Sharpe down:
https://twitter.com/user/status/983378449942233088

https://twitter.com/user/status/987020761436180481

https://twitter.com/user/status/987029058310434818

https://twitter.com/user/status/987025460373663744

 

Mark Guthridge tries to get answers,
https://twitter.com/user/status/987378716476166148

https://twitter.com/user/status/987378793030586369

https://twitter.com/user/status/987378901935587328

 

The response to Tim Erik Johnson’s tweet “Spoken like a true politician” is interesting. To respond “Thank you” is an admission and acceptance of his position as disingenuous and manipulative. The normal response to this suggestion would be a defensive comment or a reiteration of his scientific credentials.

 

Well then this trial is a report on how well you can convince someone to say what you want them to say and has nothing to do with ME/CFS at all. Then its used to lock patients up and give them treatment that makes their condition worse or blamed for failure to recover or as the basis to deny benefits. And this research was done by people who had ties to the insurance industry with a vested interest in denying benefits.
That would be my answer to him if i had twitter (anyone who wants to post it to him please do).

They state their reasons very clearly, so he knows exactly why they are saying it, he just doesn't want to acknowledge it or reply.

 

MEmillitant is very good, an S4ME member?

 

So he's saying it was a lie when they claimed they were not collecting that data due to patient compliance issues?

And pedometers have been around since the sixties ffs.

 

Ahh but those wretched patients could pretend not to be active ...of course they tell the truth on questionnaires ??? Especially when they’ve been told what to say and no doubt the questionnaire design is imbalanced and leading

 

This is a non-issue. A weak excuse. You have a control group, so if what he is saying is correct then the effect is the same across groups. Plus of course any difference caused by treatment which would be down to the treatment.

 

I really don't know what good MS thinks he is doing in that twitter thread.

 

Hmm, now that gives MS a dilemma if he’s reading our thread doesn’t it?

 

Why is MS engaging in this Twitter stuff at all?
What has he to gain or lose?

It gives us insight into his thinking which damages him.

I am amazed that he finds it of interest at all.

 

It may be the case that he thinks he's just too valuable to the people he has been working for, namely the government and insurance companies and they just wont allow their model to fail.

He's always been bigger and had more control than the average person trying to get truths out, always had the ear of government, the media and insurance companies. People don't just give that up easily and even if the writing was on the wall he still may not see it.

 

He sees it, he's just trying to graffiti over it.

 

I was just looking through he's recent replies - I think that this was my favourite:

https://twitter.com/user/status/987655755003318273


I wonder how he decides what to reply to.

 

Now he is trolling (as if he wasn't before)
My answer to that would be yes ME patients can have families, caregivers and sometimes even friends who care about them

 

Indeed, though we are coming down to the wire soon

 

He is grasping for straws, its as simple as that.

 

"At least in the short term" to me is the worst part of this thread.
This infers that adverse effects/ harm being done were well known...