I am no scientist and I struggle to make sense of statistics etc, but as a lay person I am just puzzled by their continual need to defend this. Cancer drugs are being shown to work with ME patients, CBT and GET are now looking like nonsense and farcical as treatments for ME,things have moved on scientific advances have made these approaches insignificant and obsolete , why are they unable to drop it and move on, what is the point in continually trying to prove what now just look absurd no matter how they spin it. And why are they so insistent and persistent in deliberately attempting to halt and put a stop to scientific advancement and therefore treatment for Patients. Is this normal in the field of science and medicine or is it unique to ME?