Thread by @RobertHMcMullen

My letter on ME/CFS in the Journal of General Internal Medicine in response to Sharpe et al: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The history of how GET & CBT have been promoted, prescribed & researched is alarming. Sadly, these mistakes are now affecting people with #LongCovid.

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In response, the authors point out that 3 clinicians resigned from the NICE guideline committee before publication. This is true but misleading. NICE’s minutes state: “The whole guideline was agreed by the committee … before there were resignations.”
nice.org.uk/guidance/ng206…

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It should also be noted that an FOI revealed that a representative of one the Royal Colleges privately texted the NICE chief executive before the guideline was published to try to persuade her tamper with the independent evidence review: domsalisbury.github.io/mecfs/nice-mec…

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In their letter to the JGIM White, Chalder and Sharpe also misrepresent Tack’s rebuttal of their article and the conclusions of the controversial MetaBlind study, but I will leave these for others to explain.

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As I pointed in my FT letter, the history of ME/CFS also includes the claim by an influential ME/CFS researcher that “understanding of the postviral fatigue syndrome has beene hindered by doctors who suffer from the condition also researching it”

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