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  1. Phoenix Rising Articles

    Article Science In The Age of Dogma: A Conversation with Dr. William Weir

    Science In The Age of Dogma: A Conversation with Dr. William Weir Dr. William Weir is a retired physician who has treated ME/CFS patients for many years. He has spent the last few years advising the U.K. government's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and has recently...
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    Healthcare Journal: ME, Past, Present and Future: Dr William Weir and Dr Nigel Speight

    https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/8/984 This is excellent timing, given the indication that the BPS proponents are jumping ship today at NICE. ( Michael Beadsworth, a consultant in infectious diseases, Liverpool Gabrielle Murphy, clinical lead of the fatigue service at the Royal Free Joanne...
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    Life-Threatening Malnutrition in Very Severe ME/CFS (Baxter, Speight, and Weir, 2021)

    FINALLY, someone has addressed this very important issue in a publication: Life-Threatening Malnutrition in Very Severe ME/CFS (Baxter, Speight, and Weir, 2021) by Helen Baxter, Nigel Speight, and William Weir https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/4/459/htm Excerpt: (spacing added for readability)...