Chief
Scientific Adviser to the Gulf Veterans' Association
President: the National Gulf War Veterans and Families Association, NGVFA,
(2002)
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Chief Scientific Adviser to the Gulf Veterans' Association
President: the National Gulf War Veterans and Families Association, NGVFA,
(2002)
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05 March 2010
Dear Sir
Michael,
Thank you for your letter and the returned copy of Magical
Medicine which I found very disappointing and disconcerting.
To be faced, yet again, with the
denial and dismissal of the comprehensive amount of biomedical evidence about ME
that has been presented in some 5000 published and peer-reviewed papers is
disturbing and has sinister connotations devoid of any compassion.
Failure to consider this evidence
means that any policy towards people with ME will be “built upon sand” in
defiance of the basic principles of scientific inquiry and any consideration for
very sick people, their families and carers.
As a fellow medical scientist I find
the continuing denial and unwillingness to face the biomedical evidence both
puzzling and incomprehensible.
We know Government is committed to
funding research that is perceived to support policy, an attitude that has, in
this case, lead to lack of scientific rigour, integrity and humanity in order to
avoid developing a policy based on the biomedical evidence available in this
complex and difficult area of medicine.
With best wishes
Malcolm Hooper