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As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances RyanWhether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryanwww.theguardian.com

No.03 in our 101 series covers The Biopsychosocial Model. A vital topic as much of our clinical care is BPS. Lack of progress in care, research & treatment rests on this theory. Yet, it's a complex topic, so we have created an accessible article AND a 1-page visual summary. Link 👇

🇳🇱 This paper from Rob Wüst's group was published yesterday in Nature Communications. They found several differences between ME/CFS and LC patients and deconditioned participants who underwent 60 days of bed rest 👇

Open letter to The Royal College of Psychiatrists sent by Mark Harper and others on 13 July. #ME

1) 🇩🇪 There's a new randomised trial of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for Long Covid, from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany. It claims that CBT lowered fatigue but it has the usual fatal limitations that make the results unreliable.