I am not english, but have heard on podcasts that the Advertising standards Authority has some clout. Would contacting them help in retraction of the paper? If a treatment has been used and advertised in clinics as "safe treatment" and now its been found to be based on essentially fraudulent information, can't the ASA step in ??
I'd doubt that would apply t the Medical Profession because of the law and power the "Old School Tie network" has
British law has specific safeguards for medical personnel who're trying to do their best for patients in difficult circumstances, recognizing the difficult, grey areas of ethics and morals when trying to treat people
however, as some of this is based off the events of the trial of the mass murderer Doctor John Bodkin Adams, it is long since time it was reviewed by those NOT part of the corrupt, cosy cronyism of the "Professional classes"
Bodkin Adams's trial prompted legal changes that meant, roughly, you cannot prosecute a doctor for trying to help a patient when they would die/suffer anyway and your medical help may cause an earlier death but alleviate suffering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_double_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams
the evil scum who have abused us, will use such precedents in law and pretend they have been trying to help us, even if they were factually wrong, they were "morally doing the right thing".
Please note the use of the language of some of these psychologists, they have for DECADES set up a systematic excuse for our mass murder, torture and abuse by constantly saying
"they are only working for the patients' best interests!" Which is completely false, as they have blatant "conflicts of interests", and some of them have become extremely wealthy and earned honours they do not deserve that make them very valuable as "spokesman", or form talking in front of forums etc.
Also, too often they have been caught out, even recorded as holding patients in sneering contempt, as literal "untermensch", or these psychs have shown constant misanthropy (hatred/contempt for all human beings)
And with how utterly corrupt the British Establishment is, ALWAYS protecting the "professional classes" (doctors, lawyers, etc) they'll almost certainly get away with it as they have with MANY other utterly heinous crimes.
Another part of the web of corruption, nepotism and cronyism in the UK are the ones who've been to the exclusive universities (Cambridge, Oxford etc),
or from a small group of noble families who've secretly ruled the UK since the time of the Stuart kings (they were about 7 families of bureaucrats who King James brought with him to London and have really run much of the UK ever since, all of their descendants have great wealth, influence, such as the former Prime Minister, David Cameron)
it is DEEPLY disturbing and unconscionable, that Simon Wesseley was not only knighted (made a "Sir"), by the Queen, but also given the extremely rare meritorious award of being a "Regius professor" of which only twelve scientists, scholars etc have ever been given such award.
Such awards are decided by the government, and has been repeatedly shown, they are too often awards for being part of the nepotism and corruption that chokes British power and politics.
By the standards of the medical profession, his height, fame etc some may thing he deserves recognition, but to that extent is extremely unusual...and frankly I believe it's because the corrupt system is protecting their "golden boy" they've used so, so often to defuse, deny, prevent investigation into serious or catastrophic problems that plague the people of our country and others...and thus stop criminal investigations into industrial accidents caused by grotesque mismanagement, or profiting form things that are known to maim and kill unnecessarily.
Camelford, Gulf War Syndrome (UK/USA sold Saddam Hussein the means to create nerve gas which then poisoned our own soldiers), Aerotoxic Syndrome (again, organophosphates similar to nerve gasses used on aircraft) etc etc It has happened WAY too often for it to be mere "coincidence", it forms a pattern of behaviour.
any man of conscience should surely see how compromised he is in such a position, or how much trouble he may have caused and APOLOGIZE to the Public and turn "Queen's Evidence" against those who may have used him for nefarious ends.
