Alvin
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Petition: Per Fink Should Not Spread Lies about ME at Columbia University!
If we are willing to turn a blind eye to people determined to harm us we will get harmed. All that evil needs to succeed is for good people to do nothing.
This thread has been split from this thread:
Petition: Per Fink Should Not Spread Lies about ME at Columbia University!
We have no biomarker for Parkinsons disease, the is no proven disease mechanism and diagnostic tests are mostly to rule out other diseases. MRIs and spect scans typically cannot show the damage even in severe patients. Yet if anyone where to claim its psychosomatic they would be laughed out of the room.Because their claims have been more thoroughly debunked than Fink's.
We're a long way from the point where the consensus on people like Fink is that they're no more respectable than homeopaths. To make progress most effectively we need to recognise where we are at the moment. To me, it seems that there are problems with Fink's work and claims, but we need to go into the details of those problems in order to convince others. I thought it was good to have the petition pointing to Fink citing PACE as evidence supporting his approach (assuming that was right, I never checked the reference) - indicating that he was unable to distinguish between good and bad research, but to be able to argue that he was so untrustworthy and incompetent that he should not be invited to speak needs really overwhelmingly strong arguments.
If we are willing to turn a blind eye to people determined to harm us we will get harmed. All that evil needs to succeed is for good people to do nothing.
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