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Monday, 29 August 2011

Chronic fatigue syndrome researchers face death threats from militants

I thought this was an interesting article considering all the bad press me and cfs sufferers are getting at the moment, and as the author gives permission to repost, I shall.

This letter was submitted by Professor Hooper to the Observer, in response to the article by Robin McKie “Chronic fatigue syndrome researchers face death threats from militants”, published on Sunday the 21st of August 2011, Link

Professor Hooper was contacted out of the blue by the reader’s editor of the Observer. They spoke at length on the telephone and the editor asked Professor Hooper to respond to Robin McKie’s article.

The editor indicated that the responses to the article were building up into a feature length article for the Magazine section and Professor Hooper agreed to submit a longer article as well as a letter.

He received an acknowledgement from the reader’s editor saying it was there intention to use the letter but the following day he received a further email from the same person to say it would not be published.

From Malcolm Hooper Ph.D.,B.Pharm.,C.Chem.,MRIC
Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Sunderland, SUNDERLAND SR2 3SD

Chief Scientific Adviser to the Gulf Veterans’ Association
President: the National Gulf War Veterans and Families Association, NGVFA, (2002)

25 August 2011

Dear Sir

No right-minded person condones any campaign of vilification against psychiatrists but equally, no right-minded person can condone what psychiatrists like Wessely have done to the UK ME community over the last 25 years.

It is indefensible to liken people with ME to the Animal Liberation Front; this is an attack on the whole ME community, not only the few people who have behaved irrationally.

ME has been in the medical literature for the last 70 years and classified by the WHO as a neurological disorder since 1969.

The recent International Consensus Criteria for ME produced by 26 world experts from 13 countries shows ME to be a complex, chronic illness of which post-exertional malaise (inability to recover after exercise) is the cardinal feature. This makes exercise dangerous and sometimes fatal. There are multiple symptoms and multiple clinical signs showing dysfunction and dysregulation of all the major organs and systems of the body.

No NHS clinician has the autonomy to regard ME as a somatoform disorder. The Department of Health has confirmed in writing that: “ICD-10 is an NHS Information Standard…..There is a legal obligation for Department of Health to provide ICD data to the WHO for international comparison. The NHS was mandated to implement ICD-10 on 1 April 1995, at which time there was a formal consultation…. Implementation…applies to NHS organisations and their system suppliers, such as acute and foundation trusts, primary care trusts, and the NHS Information Centre”. The Wessely School psychiatrists, many GPs and NHS neurologists are in breach of this mandate.

For Wessely School psychiatrists to continually ignore the scientific evidence is wilful ignorance but to advise the DWP decision-makers and train ATOS examiners that ME is a mental disorder is deceitful and abusive; to section patients with ME and remove them from their distraught families is abusive; to make sick people worse by inappropriate interventions is abusive; to deny them financial support necessary to survive is abusive; to mock them and to misinform others about their serious disorder is abusive; to insist that they suffer from wrong thinking and a fear of activity when they suffer from a very serious medical disorder with reproducible multiple systemic abnormalities is abusive.

These psychiatrists, who have direct and lucrative links with the Insurance industry, have been reported to Parliament. The industry stands to lose £ millions if it has to pay out for a severe life-long physical illness whereas psychiatric (functional, somatoform) conditions are usually excluded and lower benefits paid by the DWP.

The true ME story has yet to be told.

Malcolm Hooper

Permission to repost.

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Disability Rights Campaigners Protest outside the Atos Origin HQ

As part of the Coalition of Resistance's 'National Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts', Disability rights campaigners demonstrated today outside the London HQ of Atos Origin to protest against the punitive medical testing of those claiming disability and sickness benefits. The new Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) has replaced Incapacity Benefit.

Protesters are angry that in spite of well documented criticisms of the Work Capability Assessment by HM Government's Professor Harrington, ATOS have again been awarded a £300 million contract by DWP to continue making these flawed assesments which have already ruined many disabled peoples' lives and has already led to several suicides.

Read full article

Its about time people in the UK started to stand up for themselves instead of been bullied and brainwashed by the right wing media, who are inciting hatred towards disabled people.

Wednesday, 21 July 2010

New Online Dating Site

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Thursday, 5 March 2009

The Point, Cardiff

RIP
Beautiful art music venue in a converted church in Cardiff Bay, is forced to close after complaints of noise by the neighbours who had moved into new flats that were built close by.
What a bunch of wankers.
People should know what is in the area before they move there.
The whole idea of moving to certain areas is because you are supposed to like them.

It's rather like building flats or houses next to a motorway, then the residents complain about the noise and have the road closed so they can sleep at night, yeah right.
But sadly back to the real world, its happened in this case.
Serious shame and piss poor performance on behalf of Cardiff council.

Too many developers turning buildings into flats down the bay. The Coal Exchange comes to mind.
Hopefully with the recession, developers will have better things to worry about, such as trying to avoid insolvency like the rest of us.

Please read the BBC article

Fluorine added to UK drinking water

So the UK government is allowing the local health authorities to force the water companies to add fluorine to drinking water. In order to prevent tooth decay in children. This is because sadly some parents in the UK are basically incapable / incompetent or both, when it comes to teaching their children to brush their teeth and use mouthwash, whilst letting them eat crap containing large amounts of sugar.
Here is a good Guardian link on the subject.

Another good link is also about the high level of fluorine in tea and the potential risk it poses.

By the way I have been drinking tea since I was a small child, so have ingested plenty of fluorine and I have plenty of fillings.

Monday, 2 February 2009

Attracting and dating women

*Cool* website I just found

Check this site out:

I just discovered a rather unusual website, and I thought you
might be interested in it too.

It shows men how to get women to approach you first for a date,
no matter their looks, age, or income.

Talk about a role reversal. What I like about this is, when a
woman approaches you, it gets rid of all your fear of rejection.
Plus, you know she likes you for sure.

Anyway, you can check it out at:

http://www.thrub.com/women.html

PS. Oh yeah, I think this website may come down soon, so it's a
good idea to check it out right now.