Sense about Science UK: Become an Ask for Evidence ambassador

http://askforevidence.org/articles/ask-for-evidence-ambassador-launch

https://twitter.com/user/status/1105148592266899458

 

Courage for sound science wins John Maddox prize
"Simon Wessely win award for standing up for science in the face of attacks and death threats."
"The prize is awarded by Nature and the London-based science advocacy charity, Sense About Science, with support from the Kohn Foundation in London."

https://www.nature.com/news/courage-for-sound-science-wins-john-maddox-prize-1.11760

https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Sense_About_Science

 

Ironic.

 

Maybe someone should email Alex Clegg and ask if they are looking for someone interested asking for evidence for therapist-delivered treatments for medically unexplained symptoms.

I might have a conflict of interest.

 

Yup. I posted more for the irony factor than for the possibility that one of us, should we bother to apply, might be accepted.

 

@Andy

Following from you comment re "irony factor", a thread on the irony of ME might be an idea. (Not that I am suggesting you do this thread.)

 

That award will age about as badly as Henry Kissinger's Nobel Peace Prize.

 

Wessley served on Sense About Science's advisory council and later they gave him an award for bravery.

What a remarkable coincidence.

 

Perhaps his council chair was dangerous? Ready to collapse at a moments notice? That's surely worth an award!

 

It wobbled, @Andy . We have to be sensitive to these trials & tribulations.

 

The horror! No wonder he got a knighthood!

 

"[Shi-min] Fang was attacked by thugs...

Wessely ... has been reviled by many ...
"

So being disliked is like being attacked by thugs?