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Fiona Fox director of the Science Media Centre has a new book out called Beyond The Hype - The Inside Story of Media's Biggest Controversies.
The chapter on ME/CFS "First they came for the communists" is biased, inaccurate and offensive. #BeyondTheHype
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The chapter on ME/CFS "First they came for the communists" is biased, inaccurate and offensive. #BeyondTheHype
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Fox writes glowingly about a group of #MECFS researchers that are being harassed and discredited by a small group of 'activitists' and is concerned that science is under attack. The chapter title appears to liken these 'activists' to Nazis. 
Fox claims the 'activists' are in the minority but over 80 charities and over 100 academics don't trust the research and 15,000 people have expresed no confidence in the treatments.
virology.ws/2018/08/13/tri…
virology.ws/2018/08/13/tri…
It's been a while since I blogged, so what shall I blog about today?
I know; how the SMC uncritically reinforces the orthodoxy (without much regard to the actual evidence)
#BeyondTheHype
lucibee.wordpress.com/2022/05/30/smc…
I know; how the SMC uncritically reinforces the orthodoxy (without much regard to the actual evidence)
#BeyondTheHype
lucibee.wordpress.com/2022/05/30/smc…
OK. That was the TL;DR version.
Do I blog the rest of my thoughts as a long rambling essay, or in short chunks?
Do I blog the rest of my thoughts as a long rambling essay, or in short chunks?
Fox: “If a group of scientists … can be silenced or discredited in this way, what’s to stop other activists doing the same with other findings they don’t like?”
Does that really justify the nasty chapter title?
Does that really justify the nasty chapter title?
