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Wow........
Your media in the UK is majorly effed up......
Did anybody provide genuine evidence of "torrents of abuse" or "harrassment"? Or does the media just swallow such statements whole? Those are pretty extreme statements to publish without strong evidence. To say nothing of denigrating an entire group of people for the actions of a few.
Esther - you will never get this man right - he is wedded to psychiatry - no plus sides in this thinking in relation to ME. A dead duck in any real medicine. Hey I've 4 proper Docs (various specialists) in my own family who well recognise the multisystem pathologies of ME.
So whats the consensus on Wessely and whether or not he knows the true biological origin of cfs/me and gulf war syndrome. Or, if the government found somebody eccentric enough about psychiatry that they didn't have to tell him to cover something up?
My 2 cents is that Wessely and the likes actually do believe in what they are saying, they think they have the whole world figured out and nothing would ever change their mind. It would really be horrible to think that they would know the truths and follow through with what they are doing.
But, if the illness is truly caused by contaminated vaccines, then maybe they believe they are doing necessary evil for the greater good. Which means it is the greater good for the greatest amount of people if people still believe in vaccines being harmless so that a few died from xmrv but at least they didn't die from mmr, hepatitis, etc?
Esther if this is the beginning of an apology (can't read him) for all those who have suffered (and died) through mistreatment I just might view.
I have just sent my e-mail to the today programme. They will be inundated I expect. Every little helps.