Well that was a most amusing read, thanks for the link
However the further through the article i got, the more uncomfortable i got. This campaign SW's running is sinister iyam. It's an extension of the whole 'discredit your critics before they criticize you' tactic. Painting crits of psychiatry/psych research as being akin to racism is grotesque, but if he can make it un-PC to call out poor psych practice/research, then he will become all the more untouchable.
It's easy to laugh at the 'poor little lambs' - which is always my internal response to SW's weeping about 'threats', BUT.... he has successfully painted himself as the victim already, & is now trying to turn all genuine & reasonable challenge to psychiatry/psychology methods & practice into a form bullying. If the powerful successfully paint themselves as the vulnerable, then the truly vulnerable are screwed. It's sinister.
Anyone who's ever been a victim of bullying will know the phenomenon of when you finally snap & turn round & say NO!!!, the bully then runs off to tell teacher & victim is punished & shamed as being the bully, when in reality they were simply defending themselves. This campaign asaics is a stepping up of his "telling teacher" tactics.
I mean really, the truly strong, the truly intellectually brilliant, the valuable & robust theories, the truth itself, can all take criticism. It can take a bit of ribbing, it can even stand up ok to a bit of 'abuse' (although i obviously dont condone abuse). But I mean really, is the whole of the psychiatric profession, are SW & his colleagues, so fragile, so weak that they need to be painted as heroic for simply doing their jobs? Are their theories so shaky that they need protection? How unbelievably tragic. Try living with severe ME for a few months, let alone a few decades, & you'll soon discover what actual heroism looks like.