The i covers PACE/fart-gate

[Demepivo]

The I newspaper has now picked up on PACE/fart-gate with a more recent photo of the handsome GDS

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news...rious-row-pace-trial-journal-special-edition/

 

[Stewart]

A couple of extracts...

‘You’re a disgusting old fart neoliberal hypocrite’ – scientists in furious row over ME study

A furious row has erupted between scientists after a medical journal dedicated its entire August edition to ripping apart a “deeply flawed” £5m taxpayer-funded study investigating treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

The dispute led to three editors at the Journal of Health Psychology (JHP), who are all scientists, resigning. Professor George Davey Smith resigned before this month’s issue of the journal, which criticised the “extraordinary sum” of the study, was published. It is unsure how long the clinical epidemiologist, based at Bristol University, had been on the board for before leaving his post.

In a post on his blog, Professor Coyne wrote: “There was a last ditch attempt to block publication of the special issue by a powerful but unknown PACE trial advocate… A weaselly coward suggested papers weren’t properly peer reviewed and that the special issue should therefore not be published. That of course was nonsense.”

He said threats were made to Sage Publications, the publisher of Journal of Health Psychology, which expressed a reluctance to go forward as planned.

“As often happens with these kind of pressures, we weren’t told the identity of the complainant. It was clear that whoever s/he was, this person was powerful in being able to grind to a halt of making the special issue available, complete with the introductory editorial that was not previously available,” Professor Coyne wrote.

More at the link above...

 

[Demepivo]

 

[trishrhymes]

If nothing else it shows they read each others newspapers. All take the same angle so far. SMC press release barely gets a mention.

 

[TiredSam]

Excellent. Link to JHP in the first line and links to Coyne's blogs for anyone who's interested enough to look into it in more detail. Plus a much more appropriate pic of GDS looking disgustingly farty.

 

[adreno]

This was a much better article than The Times.

 

[alex3619]

If nothing else it shows they read each others newspapers. All take the same angle so far. SMC press release barely gets a mention.

Its rare that churnalism actually serves the truth. To be fair it does look like they did some extra investigating though. I hope that continues. There is more to uncover.

 

[Seven7]

Question:
For news paper to publish the quote that the PACE was being used to cut disability payments. They just have some prove ( or they would not
Publish that part).
Also, is this really all it is about? Money? Why all the PACE charade ?

For all the plp they need to pay off to keep the charade doenst Seam like good math or business. What am I missing?

 

[ebethc]

@Demepivo aka Dolores Abernathy

as a side note: we are all dolores abernathy.... Best CFS forum avatar ever...

for those who don't watch Westworld, D.A is an android who's perpetually tortured, murdered then resurrected... many, many times over... not unlike a CFS push/crash cycle

 

[Esther12]

Good to see more coverage. Paul Gallagher covered the PACE tribunal ruling too.