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====A narrative of ME/CFS that conflicts with how patients experience it ==== In a notable television debate in 2006, Van Houdenhove was heavily criticized by ME/CFS patient and former singer/radio host Luk Saffloer for constructing a narrative of ME/CFS that conflicts with how most patients experience it.<ref>De zevende dag. VRT. 05-03-2006. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neaNUwqLsoc</ref> Medical journalist and patient advocate [[Marc van Impe]] noted that Van Houdenhove rarely shows up at international conferences of ME/CFS and that he prefers to philosophize instead of conducting proper research into the disease.<ref name=":5">Van Impe M. (2012 March 16). Een aangekondigde mislukking waarbij we ons moesten neerleggen. Retrieved from: http://www.cvsmeliga.be/home/over-cvs-me/referentiecentra-cognitieve-gedragstherapie/een-aangekondigde-mislukking-waarbij-we-ons-moesten-neerleggen</ref> Van Impe also criticizes Van Houdenhove for writing in reports for insurance companies that there is no organic basis for the diagnosis of ME/CFS.<ref name=":5" /><ref>Van Houdenhove B. redactioneel. [http://www.tijdschriftvoorpsychiatrie.nl/assets/articles/articles_391pdf.pdf Uitdagingen van het chronischevermoeidheidssyndroom]. Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie 42 (2000) 11: 791-792.</ref> Van Houdenhove has often been criticized by patients on the online information website [https://www.me-gids.net/index.html ME-Gids.net.] One patient, named Marlène, wrote him an open letter stating (translated from Dutch): <blockquote>"I hope that you will devote your energy […] to treating people with trauma's, fears and so on and leave people like us, who are ill [with a neurological disease much like] MS or Parkinson’s, alone. Stick to your expertise. And if you really want to get involved in ME/CFS, then listen to patients instead of imposing your opinion on them."<ref name=":8">https://www.me-gids.net/module-ME_CVS_docs-viewpub-tid-1-pid-736.html</ref></blockquote> More recently, [http://www.wakeupcallbeweging.be/ The Wake-Up Call Beweging] has criticized Van Houdenhove for downplaying the value of biomedical research into ME/CFS. Gunther De Bock for example wrote (translated from Dutch): <blockquote>"The articles in which BvH [Boudewijn Van Houdenhove] is involved are always drawn up according to a recurring pattern in which he (1) questions the credibility of biomedical researchers, (2) weakens the scientific value of biomedical findings,(3) portrays the criticism of patients as fanatical and/or negligible, (4) highlights the psychosocial causes of CFS, (5) addresses usefulness of CBT and GET, (6) portrays other treatments as dangerous or a scam, (7) emphasizes that there is no diagnostic marker (8) that only the biopsychosocial model is evidence based (9) and that there is and will not be a pill that cures ME/CFS.”<ref name=":10">De Bock G. (2018 may 5). Retrieved from: https://www.facebook.com/Wake-Up-Call-Beweging-action-group-for-MEcfs-fibromyalgia-sufferers-202494729818299/</ref> </blockquote>
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