It’s only human for the public to view doctors as over-indulged mono-maniac drug-dispensers who’ve been told they were special for so long that they’ve come to believe it.
Isn’t there a theory out there about how ideas act like infections and influence people’s sense of themselves? #BPSM
A picture of Simon Wessely - architect of The PACE Trial and so much more self-justifying mumbo-jumbo is saying staring out of the cartoon while its author is reciting a poem - “Mind/body dualism is his obsession but he never learned this basic lesson: 'IF YOUR MODEL MAIMS & KILLS IT'S NOT A CURE FOR SOCIAL ILLS You've simply made your shibboleth** a leading cause of early death!” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames ** a shibboleth is a custom or meaning that is no longer relevant
The only people who still believe this man are the government ministers who want his help to cut budgets.
#ME #LC #PEM #MCAS #POTS #BPSM
#BPSM #ME #LC
My first (and very speed-reading) of this inclines me to argue “well, if you’ve discovered the biological mechanism by which ‘emotional stress’ (sic 🤷♀️) is converted into physical symptoms, and that these symptoms largely affect women, you’ve confirmed that…/2
Cartoon strip with two boxes- Heading - Greatest Medical Scandal First box - is divided not two horizontally Top image is a sea of grey faces and the caption says: #MillionsMissing, thousands using wheelchairs, hundreds dead Bottom image is a puzzled stick person saying “Why haven’t Cochrane and Wessely et al changed course now it’s clear that graded exercise disabled and kill’s people with #ME? Second Boxis divided vertically On the left it says ““Good question! Are they anti-science OR did they just get too well rewarded for their unsubstantiated ideas?” (Guess which idea this author prefer?) On the right is a stick man running away with a bag of swag and his crown is falling off behind him. Wise Cat is peeping into the picture and asking “they’re awfully quiet, dare we hope they’ve just run away?” Beneath the cartoon strip the author has signed #FanningTheFlames
#ME #MEcfs #PEM #GET #GradedExerciseTherapy
#BPSM #PsychiatricAbuse
#CochraneReview #simonWessely #GreatestMedicalScandal
Here’s a scandal bigger than the #PostOfficeScandal and the #InfectedBloodScandal combined.
