Tag: Fiona Fox
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A Reprise of an Earlier Blog Post About Godwin’s Law on Nazi Analogies and Simon Wessely
In a new book, Fiona Fox, the head of the London-based Science Media Centre, has compared critics of the GET/CBT ideological brigades and the PACE trial to Nazis, as I noted recently on Virology Blog. In response to her unfortunate reference to the Holocaust in this context, some on social media have invoked the popular…
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Science Media Centre Chief Fiona Fox Compares ME/CFS Patient Advocates to Nazis
I have called the PACE trial of graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for ME/CFS “a piece of crap.” As I have indicated over the years, I think the trial is an example of serious research misconduct. (Whether it meets legal definitions of “fraud” is beyond my professional expertise, but I wouldn’t…