Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

Hutan said:
Wasn't @Jonathan Edwards going to write to him? I guess it's probably too much to hope that Garner would actually see the error of his ways though.
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I did write to him indicating that I thought his posts were unprofessinal, incoherent and offensive. I also pointed out that evenHilda Bastion was unimpressed by the Cochrane shenanigans he has signed up to. And then Hilda's broadside (I think in BMJ comments) came a day or two later.

I think he would have to be very thick skinned indeed not to think twice about further nonsense. He may be very thick skinned but he has been behaving in a way that even co-conspirators are likely to feel uncomfortable with.
 
 
Utsikt said:
This is the article, it talks about differences in the gene expression in white blood cells. 25 cases and 25 controls.

It might be this study:

I also found this:
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This makes me so sad. RIP Jonathan Kerr. Stephen Holgate was also cited.... Pesticides and OP exposure were suggested.
I met with the members of Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution including Holgate in advance of this study and their RCRP report. Wessley even tried to infiltrate this RCEP work but got slapped back!!
 
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Suffolkres said:
This makes me so sad. RIP Jonathan Kerr. Stephen Holgate was also cited.... Pesticides and OP exposure were suggested.
I met with the members of Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution including Holgate in advance of this study and their RCRP report. Wessley even tried to infiltrate this RCEP work but got slapped back!!
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Department of Geography, Cambridge » The role and Influence of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 1970 -2011

www.geog.cam.ac.uk www.geog.cam.ac.uk
 
Jonathan Edwards said:
It might refer to the Kerr and Wessely study that claimed to find a HLA-DQ linkage and maybe HLA-C but I don't thin the findings replicated. The subtype claim in the other paper didn't look sound.
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If it is indeed referring to this paper from Kerr and Wessely:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Association of chronic fatigue syndrome with human leucocyte antigen class II alleles - PubMed

CFS may be associated with HLA-DQA1*01, although a role for other genes in linkage disequilibrium cannot be ruled out.
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"Association of chronic fatigue syndrome with human leucocyte antigen class II alleles",
then Garner's position is very much in line with that of keeping his preferred group of researchers in control; endorsing "the right people", his people, and by association, himself; making sure the narrative continues to be shaped by them/him and them/him alone. This way, the staus quo can be maintained i.e. to do nothing, keep treatment costs down and ensure that NHS practice never changes.

Heaven help us if a different group with a different agenda end up controlling the narrative and actually manage to get something changed :rolleyes:
 
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