justinreilly
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Looking at some of the pages from the IOM report mentioned above, the problem that I see is that they seem to be describing current and past research and perspectives on 'CFS' - i.e. along the lines of "it has been categorised as a somatisation disorder"...such quotes don't read to me as them saying outright that CFS is a somatisation disorder, in their opinion, and thus everything they actually state, although selective, is factually true (as far as I can see). It's hard to mount a complaint against somebody's words when what they say is demonstrably factually true.
So I've only scanned the pages that have been cited here, but I haven't seen a 'smoking gun' yet in terms of demonstrating bias - or even demonstrating the panel's own view of CFS - and taking bits of quotes out of context (as often seems to happen) won't help get around this. I hope I'm wrong and I've missed something that could be useful in making the case you want to make, but it's important to read the whole sentence and get it in the right context, if the aim is to quote it as if it represents the panel's view and indicates the panel's bias.
It is possible to display clear bias even though one only states facts. Without going back and looking right now to see if they go further, simply having a section on ME where you only say things such as 'CFS has been categorized as a somatisation disorder', though factual, is misrepresentative of the disease and clearly shows bias in that they only present the fake science. There is no mention that 'ME has been categorized by WHO as a neurological disorder' for example.
If you had MS would you want people redefining your disease who had flatly and soley described MS in previous reports as having been 'categorized as hysterical paralysis' without any mention that it is a neurological disease? They would be clearly ruled out for bias.
When you swear to tell the truth, you also swear to tell the WHOLE truth, not selective little parts of it that make what you say into a misrepresentation.
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