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The old "nothing to see here, move along" card. He's played that so often it's getting a little frayed around the edges.I seem to have started a hare running which can now go back to its nest. Apols for the confusion
I assume that the photo here is from the SAS lecture? If you zoom in to the slide projection - and search for each 'abusive' statement, then you find that they all come from just one perhaps dubious online site - uk.people.support.cfs-me.narkive.com/.../dr-simon-wessely-the-next-dr-shipman . Did anybody at the lecture notice if SW made it clear that this was the case, or did he (by omission) imply that they were from different people?
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Prof M Sharpes, Wessely and Chris Bass seem to be mentally unstable. Maybe they need psychiatric help?
"If you don't find a cure for me soon it will be too late ..."
The first two definitions of the term recover in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary follow:
----from illness
1. "recover (from something) to get well again after being ill/sick, hurt, etc."
----from something unpleasant
2. "recover (from something) to return to a normal state after an unpleasant or unusual experience or a period of difficulty"
Online source. (Retrieved April 19, 2017)
http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/recover?q=recover
Question: Did the past and current patients in the PACE and MAGENTA studies know that the researchers have been using their own, private, and unexpected definition of the term recover when discussing therapies?
Does strongly suggest that if SW is ever put in front of a formal/public enquiry, he will drop himself (and the rest of PACE) in it time and time again .I don’t mind people disagreeing on measures of recovery. They changed the recovery measure because they realized they had gone too extreme and they would have the problem that nobody would recover.
Thanks to Janet Eastham (I think she is on the forum but do not recall her username ) and @harveythecat for going along and attending and asking some good questions.
Cheers girls for doing that!!! It looks like that it wasn't a genuine debate but just a lot of Wessely's chums self congratulating and rehashing the imaginary death threat story again.
Do we have a link to the recorded talk?
I saw on twitter that one of you took a transcript or a recording of it. It would be good to have a copy of it perhaps put it up on the internet and MEPedia for the record?
Also I am intrigued by this post.
The posts were also dated 11 years ago -- 2006 made by one person.
not yet - we're both q busy right now but am sure can get it up soon