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====Science Media Centre involvement ==== The [[Science Media Centre]] (SMC), which Simon Wessely is a director of, was found to have orchestrated and publicised the false narrative in2011 in the UK media about extremists harassing researchers.<ref name="SMCUK201110TOP" /><ref name="SMCUK201302ETE">{{Cite web | last1 = Science Media Centre | authorlink1 = Science Media Centre | last2 = Blithell | first2 = Claire | authorlink2 = | title = Supporting experts targeted by extremists | publisher = Science Media Centre | issue = Review of First Three Years in Mental Health Research| page =10 | date = Feb 2013 | url= http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Review-of-the-first-three-years-of-the-mental-health-research-function-at-the-Science-Media-Centre.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160418232134/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Review-of-the-first-three-years-of-the-mental-health-research-function-at-the-Science-Media-Centre.pdf | archive-date =Apr 18, 2016}}</ref> An article in the Establishment in May 2016, [https://theestablishment.co/the-hidden-battle-for-the-rights-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-sufferers-cd20bef0f13a#.nz06llmkn For Those Suffering From Chronic Fatigue, Victim-Blaming Is Rampant] summarised the campaign to smear ME sufferers and how these psychiatrists after categorising ME as a psychological over two decades then were able to use institutional gaslighting when patients were question the scientific validity of the trial andto stop access to data requests from the PACE trial by framing them as harassment and abuse. [[Catherine Hale]] has written about the ''Politics of Stigma'' created for ME sufferers by the PACE trial authors.<ref name="HaleC201512">{{Cite web| last1 = Hale | first1 = Catherine| authorlink1 = Catherine Hale | title = The politics of stigma with ME/CFS | website= Catherine Hale (blog) | date = Dec 17, 2015 | url= http://www.catherinehale.net/2015/12/the-politics-of-stigma-with-mecfs.html }}</ref> Peter Tatchell, a human rights advocate has supported ME sufferers for their human rights against the psychotherapies and the PACE trial and defended them from the smear campaigns by the psychiatrists similar to what he faced in his advocacy in the 1970s.<ref name="MEMilitant20171008">{{Cite web | last1 = MEMilitant | title = RC Psych previously smeared patients - Will this change? | publisher= Twitter| date = Oct 8, 2017| url = https://twitter.com/MEMilitant1/status/916678145696325632| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180328062946/https://twitter.com/MEMilitant1/status/916678145696325632| archive-date = Mar 28, 2018}}</ref><ref name="TatchellP20160921">{{Cite web| last1 = Tatchell | first1 = Peter| authorlink1 = | title = Isaac Marks - Lessons not Learnt | publisher= Twitter | date = Sep 21, 2016 | url= https://twitter.com/PeterTatchell/status/778256247300775936}}</ref> <ref name="TatchellP20160923">{{Cite web | last1 = Tatchell | first1 = Peter | authorlink1 = | title = Worrying how the DWP treats disabled people| publisher= Twitter| date = Sep 23, 2016 | url= https://twitter.com/PeterTatchell/status/778981017768058881}}</ref> <ref name="SMCUK20131031">{{Cite web| last1 = Science Media Centre | authorlink1 = Science Media Centre | last2 = Fox | first2 = Fiona | authorlink2 = | title = SMC - malicious use of FOI against researchers | publisher= Science Media Centre | issue = (email)| date = Oct 31, 2013| url= https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVyL6v0W4AAmSKE.jpg:large}}</ref> Ethics experts [[Charlotte Blease]] and [[Diane O'Leary]] have investigated ethics and injustice in the behavior of some researchers in the ME/CFS field and the effects of government and institutional actions on patients.
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