Esther12
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
The whole article sounds like he has fallen for this scam hook, line and sinker. In fact, it reads as though it's written by someone who has been indoctrinated into a cult.
Talking as if Garner sounds brainwashed seems weird to me.
To me, it sounds as if he was someone within British medicine who got post-viral symptoms in the middle of a pandemic, ended up in a public advocacy role that led to him getting a range of conflicting and confusing advice during an emotionally fraught time, got overly caught up in some of it, recovered while taking more time for himself and being able to increase his activity levels, and views that experience in a way that reflected well on himself and fit with the views of the culture he was a part of (and may be an entirely accurate view of what happened to him - it's probably impossible for anyone to really know).
None of this sounds particualrly surprising to me. Nothing I've seen from him makes it sounds like he's been scammed. I expect most of us will have seen the other patients who recover from ME/CFS and blog that it was because of some diet/supplement/intervention/etc - it seems like this is a pretty normal response. I don't really understand why anyone would think anything particularly weird has happened here. edit - Though it does seem like he's in contact with Recovery Norge sorts encouraging a particular narrative. But how different is that to patients who've recovered while being in contact with some alternative therapist promoting a particular narrative?
At the moment, has Garner even mentioned LP?
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