I didn't think that response was good.
"Readers might easily believe that CBT and GET can help everyone with M.E. if only they would give it a try. But it doesn’t."
The author can easily claim that she did not imply that, and actually commented on White's results by saying: "While that’s still not a great success record, it showed that White’s approach was the best treatment available and demonstrated that recovery from the condition is possible."
The details are what matters and AfME don't seem willing to get in to them. There have been a couple of other examples over the last few years of what seem to be AfME trying to be better at standing up for patients, but just not being very good at it. I think that they did get totally misled about the nature of the controversies around CBT/GET, PACE, etc, and even if they are now starting to move in the right direction they've still got a long way to go.