This harassment risks undermining research in the field, preventing the development of new treatments and discouraging specialist clinicians from entering the field.
Heard that somewhere before. Only in the context of objections to the BPS brigade though, happily. Did I mention that somewhere today?
Dr Zaher Nahle's No Spin Zone slides
In answer to your question, I make it 5:
Professor Peter White
Dr Esther Crawley
Professor Stephen Holgate
Professor Paul Little
Professor George Davey-Smith
Funny how none of them got scared off in the following 4 years, even though they must have been aware of what they're up against militant patient-wise for all that time (Although maybe fear did finally get the better of Peter White and that's why he resigned?). It's obviously their less courageous colleages they're worried about.
So who are the potential scaredy-cats? Of the people listed on the petition, if we remove those mentioned above because they are obviously battle-hardened and have a skin thick enough to ignore anything coming from patients (and I think we can remove Sonya Chowdhury for the same reason), we are left with:
Prof Chris Ponting, University of Edinburgh;
Prof Colin Smith, University of Brighton;
Prof Caroline Relton, University of Bristol;
Tony Bartlett, Somalogic;
Dr Rick Dunn, University of Birmingham;
Prof Julia Newton, University of Newcastle;
Prof Andrew Morris, University of Edinburgh;
Prof David Ford, SwanseaUniversity;
Prof Paul Moss, University of Birmingham;
Prof Jim Horne, LoughboroughUniversity;
Prof Maria Fitzgerald, UniversityCollegeLondon;
So which of these are we not allowed to mention the war to?