Simon Wessely's "ME/CFS" research is like doing a study on Alzheimer’s disease by recruiting patients who are tired and depressed

CFS Central: The other concern patients have is the name Chronic Fatigue. The patients contend that the name Chronic Fatigue promotes the misrepresentation of the disease—i.e., studying patients who are only tired and/or depressed but who don’t have ME/CFS.

 Examining the wrong cohort has been a big problem over the years, particularly with the psychiatric school headed up by psychiatrist Simon Wessely in England, and at CDC here in the U.S.

This muddying of the cohorts often results in findings that are meaningless.

 It’s like doing a study on Alzheimer’s disease but recruiting patients who are tired and depressed. Read more>>

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