Simon Wessely Didn't Want His e-Mail On A Blog - Here It Is on Hole Ousia

@Hole Ousia, speaking of transparency and ethics – sink‘s links to the Science Media Centre also deserve attention IMO.

* recommendations for a new function at the Science Media Centre (2010) Bithell
https://www.s4me.info/forums/health-news-and-research-unrelated-to-me-cfs.29

* Issues reported about the Science Media Centre (SMC), not just ME-related
https://www.s4me.info/posts/56263/

* Blog: David Tuller, "Trial By Error: My Questions for the Science Media Centre"
https://www.s4me.info/posts/26486/

* Forward-ME Group Letter to the Science Media Centre, April 2018
https://www.s4me.info/posts/59731/

 

Yep, the "Science Media Centre" fails to provide meaningful transparency of potential competing interests. There is no way to establish how much of the £42 million that the pharmaceutical industry pays each year to UK doctors and academics may go to the Science Media Centre experts.

I wrote this post about this not so long ago: https://holeousia.com/2018/02/25/science-media-centre/

 

The Royal Society of Medicine and sponsored medical education (an update) ... this is my latest post on transparency:

https://holeousia.com/2018/07/18/th...ne-and-sponsored-medical-education-an-update/

Professor Sir Simon Wessely is President of the The Royal Society of Medicine.

aye Peter

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1024338902071566338


article here:
https://davidhealy.org/in-the-name-of-the-bbc/

https://twitter.com/user/status/1024346330897047552

 

edit: Wessely complained the claim that Nick Hodgson was his son in law is a false rumor about him promoted on social media... seems someone misunderstood one of his tweets.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1044500923521933312

 

Yep.

 

http://www.auntiepsychiatry.com/Auntie Psychiatry.html#doubt

 

The comic is cool!

 

It's just missing the Hans Eysenck warning on the cigarette pack saying smoking doesn't cause cancer.

 

It is possible that these two posts may be of interest to members of this forum:

Science Media Centre and transparency: Where is the leadership? https://holeousia.com/2018/10/20/science-media-centre-and-transparency-where-is-the-leadership/

A pattern language: https://holeousia.com/2018/10/20/a-pattern-language-2/

aye peter

 

Few things more interesting than the workings of the Science Media Centre.

 

Another one with a "very very large brain", which I suspect may be a Chinese euphemism (possibly impromptu) for an extremely big head.

 

I find it interesting that the SMC considers itself with the mainstream, as if it has nothing to do with creating and maintaining the very thing it considers itself inside of.

Itself and the journalists it works with are part of the manufacturing of what is considered mainstream and what is considered outside. What is considered important and what is not.

It reminded me of an anecdote about the difference between professionals and non-professionals.

Disciplined Minds - Jeff Schmidt.

How can we expect internal change to come from institutions where people tend to think and agree with each other? In the reply the SMC say

But why would the policies change without outside intervention? Why would a declaration of interests policy change when the mainstream have already decided on one, and they seem to agree with each other?

 

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum.
And the great fleas, themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

 

erm......thrice replicated peer reviewed double blinded placebo controlled papers to show this - or it probably isn't a real thing

 

Are you referring to the book A pattern Language by Christopher Alexander?

 

True classic !