"Personal attacks have often been waged on doctors, therapists, scientists and others.". An often heard claim that is never supported with any proof. The same argument was used to refuse access to some of the PACE trial data, the statement from the Tribunal who ruled that the data should be released said "It was clear that [Anderson's] assessment of activist behaviour was, in our view, grossly exaggerated and the only actual evidence was that an individual at a seminar had heckled Professor Chalder." Of Chalder's testimony, the Information Commissioner reported that "she accepts that unpleasant things have been said to and about PACE researchers only, but that no threats have been made either to researchers or participants. The highest she could put it was that some participants stated that they had been made to feel "uncomfortable" as a result of their contact with and treatment from her, not because of their participation in the trial per se.". Hardly a campaign of hate and vitriol that you seem to be claiming here. The only harm that is being done here is when treatments for patients with fatigue are forced on people with ME who are unable to cope with the demands made of them. Any anger comes from the medical system not listening to the patients who are being harmed by inappropriate treatments.
