I am unclear what Esther Crawley was doing last a British Renal Society meeting.
She seems no to have noticed that the FOI request that did get through was found not to be vexatious, manifestly unjustified, inappropriate or whatever, but entirely reasonable. The information officer found the claims of anti-science to be unjustified. Moreover, the OMEGA petition seemed to get it right in that the application was turned down by the Wellcome. It was poorly thought through.
I may be slow on the uptake but this is now clear evidence that Dr Crawley is delusional about the quality of her science and the nature of her critics. She did not mention that if you do bad science you may get Emeritus Professors of Medicine pointing out how bad it is, as well as patients.
Who on earth is this Sridharan fellow? Has anyone pointed out to him (or BRS) that a hundred scientists have written to the Lancet saying she and her friends are talking nonsense?
Hi Dr Edwards and everyone here
I am this Sridharan fellow! I came across this thread as a result of replies I have been getting on twitter and hence, I thought I will clear some things up.
First of all, I am not employed by BRS to tweet nor do I know Dr Crawley. I have never heard of her before this morning. And certainly, I am not employed by her to tweet her session. You may have seen that I have tweeted other sessions as well from the conference and I have done this for many other meetings previously. None of the tweets I posted carried any of my personal opinion - it was just a statement of what was happening there just like I have done for other sessions. To clarify, I am not a paediatrician and certainly do not know about CFS/ME as much as you people do. Hence, I refrain from commenting on which research is valid regarding ME.
By replying to me and abusing me, nothing is going to happen. I don't know Dr Crawley and she is not in my network. By doing this, you are shooting the proverbial 'messenger'. None of my tweets endorsed her studies or her views. I am sorry I had to block some of you guys only because they were either abusing me or trying to abuse Dr Crawley through my tweets. I do not want to be a medium for it. If I had tweeted any of your talks and this happened to you, I would have done the same. I understand you have a lot of differences with her competency and research but I am not in any way endorsing it either. You may also noticed that I hadn't blocked some of the people who replied because they politely pointed me to Dr Edwards' blog to know the truth - which I am OK with. I will, if interested, will look at it.
Going through this thread, I get a sense that you all are decent people trying to take a stand against what you think is wrong. I commend that. So, please stop abusing me - I was just tweeting a conference session which I attended. That's all there is to it. It is not related to ISN Social media task force as I was tweeting from my own account and not as ISN member. I have taken all the tweets down so that there is no further dissemination of the material that was presented by her through my account.
I am a neutral person in this issue and certainly not knowledgeable enough to support either side. I wish you luck in whatever your goals are. Thanks and I hope you all will leave me and ISN out of this issue.
P.S. I am Dr Siva Sridharan and I am a nephrologist. I attended BRS conference just as a delegate like everyone else. I tweet some of the sessions I attend in the conference and I am the one who tweeted Dr Crawley's session.