Changes to ME agenda WordPress site
Shortlink: http://wp.me/p5foE-3bP
Yesterday, I posted a House of Lords Written Question that has been tabled by the Countess of Mar, on 21 October, in which questions are raised about the ethical approval of the Dr Esther Crawley led Lightning Process pilot study in children. A Written Answer is expected on 4 November and I shall publish that answer here.
There have also been some developments with the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) which I am not involved in, myself, but I will report on those developments as more information becomes available.
I maintain several WordPress sites and I shall continue to post alerts on this site to new material published on my Dx Revision Watch site – the concept for which developed out of research and awareness raising undertaken throughout 2009 around the forthcoming revisions of two important international disease classification systems: the (APA) American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and the World Health Organization International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD).
Other than that, I do not intend to post further material on ME agenda site.
I don’t like the nonsense that passes for rational discourse so often in our society. I am very much bothered by the inaccuracies, ambiguities, code words, slogans, catch phrases, public relation devices, sweeping generalizations, and stereotypes, which are used (consciously or otherwise) to influence people.
I am bothered by the inability of many to recognize these for what they are. I am bothered by the way people fudge issues, or are unable to clarify them, sometimes because they are inhibited by “collegiality” and other forms of intimidation (sometimes subtle, sometimes not). Most people put up with the nonsense without doing anything about it (unable or unwilling, for whatever reason – inertia, lack, of energy, lack of interest, lack of time, etc.), often falling into cynicism and despair.
I am bothered by the misinformation which gets disseminated uncritically through the media and by the obstructions which prevent correct information from being disseminated. These obstructions come about in many ways – personal, institutional, through self-imposed inhibitions, through external inhibitions, through outright dishonesty, through incompetence – the list is a long one.
I am bothered by the way misinformation, disguised as scholarship, is used in social, political, and educational contexts to affect policy decisions.
I am bothered by the way misinformation is accepted uncritically, and by the way people are unable to recognize it or reject it.
Serge Lang The File: Case Study in Correction 1977-1979 (1981)
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