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Blondie comic
From MEpedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia of ME and CFS science and history
Blondie is a long-running American comic strip.
ME/CFS & SEID comic strip
Blondie published a cartoon strip in February 2016 that implied the disease was simply tiredness, referring to the new name proposed by the Institute of Medicine report, Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease (SEID).[1]
Complaints
A letter to the Washington Post complained "I’m surprised that this uninformed and tasteless strip was published".[2]
Lucinda Bateman of the The Bateman Horne Center wrote a letter of complaint, criticizing them for risking perpetuating a "gross misunderstanding of the severity of ME/CFS".[3]
Learn more
See also
References
- ↑ "February 25, 2016". Blondie. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
- ↑ DesRoches, Greg. "No joke for chronic fatigue sufferers". Washington Post. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
- ↑ Bateman, Lucinda (March 14, 2016). "Cartoon Offers Education Opportunity - Bateman Horne Center". Bateman Horne Center. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
