Even for a non-native English speaker like me it is obvious that to name a thing and to create a thing are two completely different notions. I assume that whoever wrote that document has proper understanding and property of the words. The author did not say "the disease was named CFS for the first time " but said "CFS was created in the late 1980s and did not exist prior to this time". And what about the fact that during thousands of years of human history this disease did not exist but it appears "naturally" and suddenly in 1980's!
@sorin - I think we may have to agree to disagree as to whether or not cfs was created as a diagnostic entity as a result of watering down of descriptions of the disease known as ME.
The term cfs suddenly appeared in the 1980s when CDC produced the overly broad definition but the disease known as ME has existed for far longer though like many other diseases was often not accurately described.
If you have not already done so, I hope you will read The Burial of ME. (See links below)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89158245/Thirty Years of Disdain - Background.pdf
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89158245/Thirty years of Disdain - Summary.pdf
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