NATIONAL ARCHIVES on ME

 

 

There are many stories of secret files relating to myalgic encephalomyelitis and the way that establishment organisations and some individuals have acted in creating the current national/international scandal regarding the misinformation and treatment of this disease.

Valerie Eliot Smith has recently applied and succeeded in getting the National Archives to release information between the Department of Health and some individuals regarding ME.

These documents, released under the Freedom of Information act, are quite telling.

A copy of the documents is available - click here (166.2 mb)

The files will also be stored on IiME's site  (170mb - awaiting approval)

 

First impressions are disbelief that individuals' opinions/statements of the classification of ME were taken as fact by the establishment with so little evidence.

There is little doubt that a whole generation of sick and vulnerable patients have been adversely affected by decisions and dogma introduced between 1984 and 1992.

This national scandal has been allowed to fester and ME patients have been allowed to die with little being done to change things - by the governments, academic institutions, media, charities or businesses whose profits have been dependent on misinformation about this disease.  

 

 

Further information:

1 MRC Secret Files on ME Click here
2 Magical Medicine: How to Make a Disease Disappear Click here
  

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