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Edward Shorter to give talk on CFS at NIH

Denise

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Denise

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The ME/cfs Interest Group has invited people who (from their reputations) gave helpful, thorough presentations.
( I don't know if when this page was last updated - it lists the most recent presentation as September)
"Speakers to date include:

June 15th, 2016: Anthony Komaroff, M.D.: An Overview of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

July 18th, 2016: Leonard Jason, Ph.D.: Diagnostic Challenges and Case Definitions for CFS and ME

August 24th, 2016: Daniel Peterson, M.D.: CFS/ME: Perspectives from a Local Epidemic 1984-2016

September 21st, 2016: Staci Stevens, M.A. and Mark Van Ness, Ph.D.: Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in ME/CFS"

Where and how Shorter fits in with these presenters is beyond me...
 
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This is discouraging, but after the NIH people have heard from Komaroff, Lenny Jason, Staci Stevens, and Dan Peterson, it's hard to see Shorter convincing them of anything other than his own backwardness.

You'd certainly like to think so.
I think it still warrants an explanation though.
This guy should not be considered in the same league as the other names - it's disrespectful to them and to patients.
 

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Just as a reminder - shortly after the IOM report (Feb 2015) came out, Shorter posted this:
https://web.archive.org/web/2015022...essed/201502/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-is-back
The original post disappeared rather quickly and was replaced by a somewhat toned down version: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-everyone-became-depressed/201502/chronic-fatigue-in-the-context-the-history-medicine

This is horrific - it's beyond disrespectful and backwardness - The "toned-down" version is very bad, the original leaves me speechless -- I'm going to e-mail the NIH too - does anyone know who to contact?

eta: I just saw a "contact" link here: http://mecfs.ctss.nih.gov/contact.html
 

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