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anne
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I love the phrase, "profoundly wry." Brilliant.
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annu, was this the same place that had Marilyn Monroe's autopsy?
tina
Ok, Mark, that was enjoyable reading, almost poetry.
But I am a straight talker. At first, I thought you were being sarcastic. But I then saw the sincerity.
So, basically, are you leaning toward the whole mess being human flaws (ego, competition, unable to understand what you don't see, etc.) instead of sinister intent (corruption because of financial interests or mislead to cover up that the government caused the virus to be in humans)?
Tina
Almost poetry? Maybe one day I'll write some actual poetry.
we are after all cut from the same cloth, and we all deserve the benefit of the doubt that despite all appearances to the contrary, we may be sincere, and we may even be right.
Ok, so do you A. really believe that human frailty cause the years of misinformation and lack of effort or B. do you just say you have to believe it because you can't prove and would hate to think the sinister is true?
Come on, A or B.
Tina
. . . my mood keeps oscillating from pole to pole and whether it's A or B depends on whether I'm in a positive or negative frame of mind. Sometimes I faintly perceive those hidden, unseen, dark and inhuman forces in the shadows after I've foolishly ridden a wave of optimism, tried to write something uplifting, and aimed for an impossible perfection - it takes a lot out of me and something always drives me back down again. If I had a stabilising force with me perhaps it would be different, but at the moment, I don't. I used to love being in this place, but now I feel lost.
Having followed the whole sorry saga of SW's career, believing that him and his colleagues think they are doing good does not fit the facts.
They talk very plausibly and can get those in authority to listen to them but they never let the truth get in the way of what they say.
Deciding, unilaterally, to rename ME as CFS without involving or consulting any of those who had been researching and treating patients for years was bad enough, but they also gave it a different definition from the one being used in the US for CFS.
That this would cause endless confusion did not stop them.
The fact that ME came in epidemics is never mentioned.
Recently he wrote an article where he said that CFS campaigners were attacking the profession of psychiatry which is totally untrue. Read any UK forum and people are encouraged to seek professional help if they are suffering from depression or anxiety.
His recent statement that he couldn't see how they had got from prostate cancer to CFS implied that it was ridiculous and was a subtle way to denigrate the scientists, yet he must know about the RNAse connection.
For referenced evidence of his two faced statements about ME and CFS see
http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/index.html
Mithriel