Stewart
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A quick google clearly shows Professor Keith Petrie and Professor Sir Simon Wessely have worked together repeatedly over the years, well I never, what a surprise.
I have this mental image of Simon phoning round all his friends, desperately trying to find someone who'll write something - anything - in defence of his precious trial ("...it's a thing of beauty...") and finding that the usual suspects are less willing than they've previously been to stick their heads above the parapet in defence of PACE.
Finally, to his relief, Keith Petrie agrees. But then Petrie and his collaborator quickly bash out this half-hearted, ill-informed grabbag of discredited gubbins. It's difficult to believe that it took two people to write such a cursory, out-of-date 'defence', seemingly lacking even a basic understanding of the controversy surrounding PACE - but then I suppose if I'd quickly written an article on an issue I didn't understand as a favour to a friend, I would want someone else's name alongside mine on the byline, sharing the embarassment...
Hopefully anyone who takes the time to read the 8 or 9 articles that the Journal of Health Psychology has published recently criticising PACE can't help but be struck by the inadequacy of a response which *completely* ignores all the serious concerns highlighted in the earlier papers.