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=== Keith Geraghty === [[Keith Geraghty]]'s publication of ''‘PACE-Gate’: When clinical trial evidence meets open data access'' in the [[Journal of Health Psychology, Special Issue: The PACE Trial|Journal of Health Psychology's special issue about the PACE trial]], which PACE trial principle investigators had unsuccessfully failed to block publication of, resulted in them complaining to journal editor [[David Marks]], demanding that the article should be amended to disclose information about Dr Geraghty's health: that he was diagnosed with [[chronic fatigue syndrome]], and claiming that this was evidence of a "conflict of interest", and also demanding a partial retraction of "claims and language" that offended them.<ref name="PACEgate">{{Cite journal | last = Geraghty | first = Keith J | author-link = Keith Geraghty | date = Aug 2017 | title = ‘PACE-Gate’: When clinical trial evidence meets open data access | url = http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359105316675213|journal=Journal of Health Psychology|language=en|volume=22|issue=9|pages=1106–1112|doi=10.1177/1359105316675213|issn=1359-1053|pmc=|pmid=|access-date=|quote=|via=}}</ref><ref name="Privilege" /> This request was refused.<br /> Keith Geraghty: "...after I published articles that were critical of the PACE trial, two of the [[PACE Trial Management Group|PACE authors,]] [[Peter White|White]] and [[Michael Sharpe|Sharpe,]] lodged complaints about me and my work to my host University. Emails and phone calls to ones bosses is very intimidating."<ref name="GeraghtyTweet">{{Cite web | url = https://twitter.com/keithgeraghty/status/1098156393159376896 | title = Dr Keith Geraghty on Twitter | last = Geraghty | first = Dr Keith | date = 2019-02-20 | website = Twitter|language=en|access-date=2019-02-20 | authorlink = |archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|quote=For the record this morning, after I published articles that werecritical of the PACE trial, two of the PACE authors W&S lodgedcomplaints about me and my work to my host University. Emails and phonecalls to ones bosses is very intimidating.|publisher=@keithgeraghty|at=1:44 AM}}</ref> —"... within weeks [of requesting access to PACE trial data], a complaint was made to my home institution, the University of Manchester - from Prof. [[Peter White]], stating I was acting in a highly unprofessional manner."<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://forums.phoenixrising.me/threads/petition-opposing-mega.47466/ | title = Petition: Opposing MEGA | website = Phoenix Rising ME / CFS Forums|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-20}}</ref>
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