Nastiness disguised as CFS advocacy

Posted on February 15, 2011 By John Herd:

The nasty contentiousness happening on some ME/CFS on-line forums, and metastasizing over into Facebook pages and email is revolting.

People have become rabid, stalking victims in packs.

Such things as truth, objectivity, civility, and accountability are being discarded in their attacks.

I’ve never in all the years of CFS advocacy seen anything like this rabid mass phenomenon. We’ve had individual people who have displayed such deranged viciousness, but not the gladiator pit mass attacks we see today.

This is not advocacy; it is piranha feeding on one another.
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