The politics regarding ME/CFS is very disturbing.  The psychiatric lobbyists movement, often referred to as the "Wessely School", ignores the thousands of organic abnormalities of this devastating disease, and shout louder and louder.

Definition of ME

There is a very disturbing movement to have the CDC "empirical definition" 2005 accepted world wide by those who want ME patients treated with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise.    This has already happened in the Netherlands.   Please read some of the following  articles and sign the petition.

Urgent  - Sign petition not to accept the CDC Definition/Criteria 

Who is the International Study Group?   09/09

Empirical Definition  - Reeves (CDC)    http://www.biomedcentral.com/1...

Movement by Other Countries to Adopt the Canadian Consensus Document

• Why the U.S. Needs to Adopt the Canadian Consensus Document
  

Politics

• DSM - 5 :  National ME/FM Action Network submission  04/19/2010
  
• DSM - V Alert   04/14/2010
  Dr. Fred Friedman
  
• Magical Medicine - How to Make Disease Disappear  04/2010
  Dr. Malcolm Hooper 
  
• Re:  DSM - V   Submission by 25% ME Group     03/2010
  complied by Dr. Malcolm Hooper & Margaret Williams
  

• CFS, Reeves, and the CDC:  A Rich History but A Poor Past
  Craig Maupin   www.cfidsreport.com    02/2010
  http://www.cfidsreport.com/News/10_Reeves_History_CFS.html
  
• Startling News - Dr. William Reeves leaves post at CDC  01/27/2010
  
• "The Why" - Hillary Johnson
  presentation at the Invest in ME Conference, UK  06/2009
  http://www.oslersweb.com/work1.htm   
  
• CDC - Patient Groups Cower  06/2009
  
• Wessely, Woodstock and Warfare? 
  Margaret Williams  09/2007
  
• The One Click Group Report - The Gibson 'Inquiry'   01/2006
  
• Gibson Report Highlights [ME/CFS]  UK  11/2006
  Margaret Williams
• Gibson Report [ME/CFS] UK  Nov. 26, 2006
  Erythos.com
  
• A Medical Morass?  [ME/CFS] 11/2006
  Margaret Williams
• ME, ME/CFS and CFS History  11/2006
  Lajla Mark    ME Site 
  
• Brave New World of Zero Risk:  Covert Strategy in British Science Policy
  http://www.trans4mind.com/counterpoint/index-health-fitness/walker2.shtml   
  (book)   Martin J. Walker     This book gives some of the behind-the-scene politics about illnesses.  Posted with the kind permission of the author.
  
  

This page was last reviewed/modified on 04/2010.