Dangerous psychologiser Simon Wessely has a new patient group in his sights: trans kids

The NHS has appointed psychiatrist Simon Wessely as chair of the new Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board

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George Monbiot explains the bad science around Graded Exercise Therapy etc.

Good to see awareness of this atrocity becoming more mainstream.

"Despite an overwhelming weight of evidence, the old believers, including Sharpe and Wessely, have continued to try to justify their model ... This is not how science should work."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-treatments-social-services

#MECFS #science #medicine #GeorgeMonbiot #SimonWessely #MichaelSharpe

‘You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal

The notion that this illness is psychosomatic is having devastating effects, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

"... Sir Simon Wessely, one of the most powerful figures in the British medical establishment.

"A man whose bad science, ego and ideology have for decades set back research into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and treatments for the disease. ...

"Countless people were harmed... by following these junk cures."

https://donotpanic.substack.com/p/how-junk-science-set-a-countrys-health

#MECFS #BadScience #PACETrial #NHS #DWP #benefits #PEM #CBT #GET #LongCovid #SimonWessely #MichaelSharpe #ManselAylward

How junk science set a country's health and welfare policy

A story about a knight

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