I think he was probably still a true believer until recently. Impossible to know though.
Entirely possible but why would he stop writing about officially the most interesting thing in medicine
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I think he was probably still a true believer until recently. Impossible to know though.
Entirely possible but why would he stop writing about officially the most interesting thing in medicine
This link is quite an eyeopener. Well worth the long read. The same techniques used by the Wessely school to silence ME activists were exactly those used by the Science Media Centre( Wessely is a trustee) to silence anti GM activists more than a decade ago. Thank you @Luther Blissett!To add to your comment, I ask readers to look at this http://davidhealy.org/fucked/ (sorry mods if this language is inappropriate)
BONUS FEATURE; Ben Goldacre calling another campaign for transparency and access to data names and accusing them of abuse.
The Guardian’s long-standing hate campaign against ME sufferers
What hate campaign? A quick look at the titles of all the Guardian’s ME/CFS articles does not show evidence of a hate campaign.