Senior Fellow in Public Health and Journalism, Center for Global Public Health, UC Berkeley. My academic position is largely funded by donations from patients.
Jul 1, 2023 • 36 tweets • 7 min read
The recent article in @Slate by @grace_huckins attracted a lot of attention. The article highlighted the self-evident links between mood/psychological states and somatic symptoms. No argument there--no one seriously disputes the links. 1/
But the article relies heavily on the construct of functional neurological disorder without noting how FND experts have misrepresented their own field for more than a decade, as I have recently reported.2/
Nov 6, 2022 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
Jeff @ManvBrain, since I'm one of the "loudest" voices in the PACE debate, as you write in NY Mag, it's curious that you didn't seek to talk with me about the issue before describing my work. Your piece really misrepresented my work, based solely on PACE authors' bogus claims.1/
I appreciate that you referred to me as an academic. Other stories have called me an "activist"/"campaigner" but ignored my academic credentials. But you did not mention I'm in public health--not hieroglyphics, Finnish literature, or physics.2/
