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Simon Wessely
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[Runs the King's Centre for Military Health Research a joint initiative of the Institute of Psychiatry and the Department of War Studies at King's College London. Leading activist of the Campaign Against Health Fraud.]
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Professor Sir Michael Rutter along with a troupe of psychiatrists now
or formerly associated with The Maudsley Hospital and The Institute of
Psychiatry at Kings have been working hard at telling the public autism is
solely genetic and denying there is a
world autism pandemic. .....Genetics
cannot account for the large rise we are seeing in autism since the mid 1980s.
So instead what we see are efforts by Rutter and the
King's Institute of Psychiatry other autism denialists to claim there is no
real rise in the prevalence of autism. This claim is unscientific and runs
counter to the facts documented in the formal literature.
The Institute of Psychiatry has or is home to more than its fair share
of doctors (psychiatrists mostly) who publish papers claiming autism is
genetic and denying there is an autism epidemic (the correct word is
pandemic - epidemics have far fewer victims). These doctors include Rutter,
Eric
Fombonne,
(now expert witness in the US in the Thimerosal/autism
litigation when he had previously published nothing about it), Simon Baron
Cohen. It is also home to controversial "Gulf War Syndrome" psychiatrist
Simon
Wessely, director of the Centre for Military Health Research at King's
College London and who had been claiming ME/CFS is not a physical condition
but a mental one contrary to the definition used around the world......
Rutter was also an expert witness in Malmo, Sweden in an MMR autism
case where the key question was whether
autism was solely genetic and not
environmental. Rutter's expert evidence was that it was genetic.
Professor Sir Michael Rutter & The Drug Industry
Connections
1. Simon Wessely Crucified by Gulf War Veterans MRI Study.
News of a study published in the New York Times yesterday and financed by the
USA federal government shows that low-level exposure to Sarin nerve gas could
have caused lasting brain deficits in Gulf War troops. The results of this
Magnetic Imaging Resonance (MRI) study carried out on Gulf War Veterans crucify
psychiatrist Professor Simon Wessely, the man who has compromised the futures of
over 250,000 ME/CFS labelled patients in the United Kingdom. It is utterly
disgraceful that the ME Research UK charity, previously trading as MERGE, has
just axed the neuroimagiing study in ME/CFS headed by Professor Basant Puri,
paid for by very sick patients and their families.
READ THE NEWS ON ONE CLICK
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk
Those who represented the core of the Campaign Against Health Fraud at its formation in 1989 remained involved over the next two years; others pulled in on the fringe soon drifted away. On April 3rd 1989 at a Steering Committee meeting held at the Ciba Foundation, two joint presidents were elected: Dr Michael O'Donnell, broadcaster and former GP, editor of GP magazine, and television and radio presenter Nick Ross. At that time, soon after the press launch, the leading Campaign activists were Dr Nick Beard; Dr Christopher Bass, a psychiatrist and committee member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Dr Simon Wessely; Professor Michael Baum and his brother Professor Harold Baum, Professor of Biochemistry at King's College Hospital; Diana Brahams, barrister and journalist; John Walford; Mark Pownall; Dr lain Chalmers; Dr Vincent Marks and Duncan Campbell. ---- The Campaign Against Health Fraud by Martin Walker MA
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Wessely & Goldacre, Liaison Psychiatry Faculty Conference, March
2008.pdf |
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Wessely Hagiography Now Published.doc |
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Wessely Speaks on ME.doc |
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Wessely and the Wikipedia Encyclopedia - Play The Game.doc |
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Wessely-Execution of Mentally Ill.doc |
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Wessleys Wisdom - Williams.doc |