‘Academic freedom’ overrides individual concerns in PACE Trial tribunal

[Mark]

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So he quoted someone else being slightly critical, as evidence that many patients and patient groups do not have confidence in the decisions that were made about how to present data from PACE. He can clearly be dismissed as a militant with no interest in the truth!

Google reveals that he was quoting Kim McCleary in a CAA commentary on PACE:
http://www.cfids.org/cfidslink/2011/lancet-study.asp

 

[Esther12]

Google reveals that he was quoting Kim McCleary in a CAA commentary on PACE:
http://www.cfids.org/cfidslink/2011/lancet-study.asp

I wonder if the appellant was quoting that as evidence of a large organisation's concerns, and the 'CFS militants' spin meant that the Judge took it as the appellant endorsing the views of fringe extremists.

 

[Mark]

I wonder if the appellant was quoting that as evidence of a large organisation's concerns, and the 'CFS militants' spin meant that the Judge took it as the appellant endorsing the views of fringe extremists.

It read like that to me.