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http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/current-members/events/2773St Cross Special Ethics Seminar with Michael Sharpe
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Event type:
Academic
Date: Thursday 1 June, 17:30 – 19:00
Venue: The Lecture Theatre, St Cross College, St Giles, Oxford
Title: Science, Politics and the Internet: Challenges for Research into Contested Illness
Abstract: Some areas of scholarship are politicised. That is, organised groups of people have developed strong views for or against certain fields of research and certain findings arising from these.
Whilst we may generally regard openness, interconnectedness and the patient voice the internet offers as a good thing, it also present a major challenge for researchers in ‘contested fields’. The use of such co-ordinated pressure group action against science was prominently seen in the field of climate change research but is now emerging in other areas.
Chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME for short) is one of these. The particular issue is the role of psychiatric or psychological approaches in the treatment of such patients. Protest against this form of enquiry has been present for decades. However, the increasing use of social media and blogs have co-ordinated and expanded the protest to an international one. It also provides the tool for the coordinated harassment of researchers by email, the issuing of repeated and co-ordinated freedom of information requests and the publication of comment on numerous blogs.
The implications of these internet-enabled protests for the future of science will be explored.
Speaker: Michael Sharpe is Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Oxford, consultant psychiatrist and Fellow of St Cross College. After initially studying Experimental Psychology in Oxford he trained in Medicine and then in Psychiatry in London, Cambridge and Oxford. His research has focussed on how best to integrate psychiatric and medical care for people with chronic medical illnesses, especially cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome. Professor Sharpe was the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists “Psychiatric Academic of the Year” in 2009 and ‘Psychiatrist of the year’ in 2014. He received the Don R Lipsett award for achievement in integrated care from the American Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine in 2015 and the Alison Creed award from the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM) in 2016.
Booking: INTERNAL. This event is open to members of Oxford University only. Email rachel.gaminiratne@philosophy.ox.ac.uk to reserve a place.
No Mr. Sharpe, the misdirection inferred here is simply not true, even though the statement itself forms a partial truth. (It's why in a court of law the oath is to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth - partial truths can infer untruths).Michael Sharpe: "The particular issue is the role of psychiatric or psychological approaches in the treatment of such patients."
Some areas of scholarship are politicised. That is, organised groups of people have developed strong views for or against certain fields of research and certain findings arising from these.
Whilst we may generally regard openness, interconnectedness and the patient voice the internet offers as a good thing, it also present a major challenge for researchers in ‘contested fields’.
The use of such co-ordinated pressure group action against science was prominently seen in the field of climate change research but is now emerging in other areas.
Chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME for short) is one of these.
The particular issue is the role of psychiatric or psychological approaches in the treatment of such patients. Protest against this form of enquiry has been present for decades.
However, the increasing use of social media and blogs have co-ordinated and expanded the protest to an international one.
It also provides the tool for the coordinated harassment of researchers by email, the issuing of repeated and co-ordinated freedom of information requests and the publication of comment on numerous blogs.
The implications of these internet-enabled protests for the future of science will be explored.
Obviously not a recommendation.
http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/current-members/events/2773
Those false harassment beliefs don't seem to have gone away...
There used to be a good word for this - humbug.
So now I have clear confirmation that Dr Sharpe is as dim witted and dysfunctional as White, Wessely and Chalder.
The extraordinary thing is the po-faced way it is presented. Anyone with any gump will see this man simply does not understand what is going on. It is curiously reminiscent of Mrs May.
You don't mince words, lol.
-letter from NIH official Dr Stephen Straus to CDC's Dr Keiji Fukuda"I predict that fatigue itself will remain the subject of considerable interest but the notion of a discrete form of fatiguing illness will evaporate. We would, then, be left with Chronic Fatigue that can be distinguished as Idiopathic or Secondary to an identifiable medical or psychiatric disorder.
I consider this a desirable outcome."
There used to be a good word for this - humbug.
So now I have clear confirmation that Dr Sharpe is as dim witted and dysfunctional as White, Wessely and Chalder.
The extraordinary thing is the po-faced way it is presented. Anyone with any gump will see this man simply does not understand what is going on. It is curiously reminiscent of Mrs May.
Why don't you just say what you mean Jonathan (Joke, in case anyone is in any doubt).So now I have clear confirmation that Dr Sharpe is as dim witted and dysfunctional as White, Wessely and Chalder.
It's classic though, perpetrators trying to claim the moral high ground they have been identified as lacking for so long.It kind of blows my mind to see one of the Wessely croonies, Micheal Sharpe lecturing on "ethics".