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The Strategy Behind Renaming and Redefining Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 2015
By Jerrold Spinhirne
The Strategy Behind Renaming and Redefining Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 2015
By Jerrold Spinhirne
More...This is the history of ME that HHS is seeking to erase by hiring the IOM. Making ME disappear serves several purposes for HHS:
1. It covers up a series of errors, and misconduct, at the NIH and CDC in dealing with the disease beginning in 1985. HHS wants to preserve the perceived authority and credibility of these agencies, even if it means contributing to increased levels of disability and premature death in the population.
2. It protects the economic health of the private insurance industry, which HHS evidently values more highly than the public health.
3. It saves HHS the cost of appropriately funding research on a major neurological disease. Instead, HHS gets away with spending a pittance every year on a trivialized fatigue-based illness that has been greeted with skepticism by doctors and the public.
Seeing that the deception created around CFS was breaking down after 30 years, HHS wants to begin the cycle afresh by creating a new, updated version of CFS, using the IOM, with yet another inappropriate, trivializing name. This new pseudo-diagnosis will then be used to bury ME even further. This must not be allowed to happen all over again.