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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Full interview (9 mins): youtu.be/H2rRf_f2hJs George’s recent article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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LBC | Natasha Devon interview with George Monbiot
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
George will be coming on my show this weekend to discuss this very important article.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sorry not to be reply to everyone who responded to my info request about #ME/CFS treatment y'day. Totally overwhelmed by utterly horrific stories. Now busy pulling it all together. And starting to see that there's a whole other story to be written (one day) about capital and chronic conditions. 1/2
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Intending to write another column about the treatment of #ME/CFS patients this week, pegged to new research findings on the biological basis. My question for sufferers: Are any of you still being offered inappropriate (psych/GET etc) "treatments"? Please email george at monbiot dot info. Thanks.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks so much everyone for a massive response. I've now had as many emails as I can cope with, so no more please - thank you. They paint a really grim and heatbreaking picture. The neglect and abuse of patients goes on and on. I hope to try to do the issue justice. #ME/CFS
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I just signed this important open letter on Organise, please can you add your name? Urgent Call for the Creation of an NHS Protocol for Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) - M.E. Foggy Dog Campaign organise.network/s/a2d0d6873ff8
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
On the one hand, medical science is beginning to get a handle on the very complex physiological basis of this disease. On the other hand, we can expect the greatest medical scandal (so far) of the 21st Century – the mass mistreatment and neglect of ME/CFS sufferers – to continue.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Third delay to #ME care plan prompts backlash from patients. We #pwME are put firmly onto the back burner once again. No ring fencing for research, apparently no money available at all. Let’s face it, they just don’t care. www.thetimes.com/article/a09b...
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Third delay to ME care plan prompts backlash from patients
The health department failed to explain the postponement to its long-awaited strategy for treating chronic fatigue syndrome which affects hundreds of thousands
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I'm one of millions missing from our lives due to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, each with their own challenges and losses. Unlike Covid lockdowns, the lockdowns we have dealt with for years due to #ME continue #May12 #MEcfs #PwME
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TOM K ME/CFS SINCE 1989

MISSING FROM: GRADUATING, SPORTS, WORKING, INDEPENDENCE & LIVING IN MY OWN PLACE, TRIPS ABROAD, RELATIONSHIPS, CAREFREE LIVING WITHOUT DOZENS OF SYMPTOMS #MILLIONSMISSING #EMERGEAUSTRALIA #MECFS
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
well, the crowdfunder has reached two-thirds of the goal and there's still several days left! It's a very tough time all around so I'm pleased it's done this well: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/46120
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David Tuller's Trial by Error Spring 2025
Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Spring 2025. Your gift will make a difference!
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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Cathy Sergi @cjsergi9.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I thought I would repost this to highlight again some of the many varied symptoms that can be found in #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis/#ChronicFatigueSyndrome Particularly relevant when similarities with the #LongCovid presentation in some people are being missed #MEcfs #CFS #PwLC 1/
APPENDIX 2. ME/CFS Symptom Prevalence and Severity (These prevalence and severity figures are from A definition-based analysis of symptoms in a large cohort of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, P. De Becker, N. McGregor, and K. De Meirleir. Journal of Internal Medicine 2001;250:234-240.) A total of 2,073 consecutive patients with major complaints of prolonged fatigue were assessed. Among them 1,578 met the Fukuda criteria and of those, 951 met the Holmes criteria. The figures indicate the differences in prevalence and severity of symptoms between these patient groups.
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's 8-year anniversary of this paper of mine. It could be useful if somebody feels coerced into doing graded activity or exercise programmes; also to counter claims that the #PACEtrial showed graded activity programs are safe. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #CBT
Do graded activity therapies cause harm in chronic fatigue syndrome?
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PMID: 28805516 DOI: 10.1177/1359105317697323
Abstract
Reporting of harms was much better in the PACE (Pacing, graded Activity, and Cognitive behavioural therapy: a randomised Evaluation) trial than earlier chronic fatigue syndrome trials of graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy. However, some issues remain. The trial's poor results on objective measures of fitness suggest a lack of adherence to the activity component of these therapies. Therefore, the safety findings may not apply in other clinical contexts. Outside of clinical trials, many patients report deterioration with cognitive behavioural therapy and particularly graded exercise therapy. Also, exercise physiology studies reveal abnormalities in chronic fatigue syndrome patients' responses to exertion. Given these considerations, one cannot conclude that these interventions are safe and risk-free.

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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Daily view! #severeME The flowers will change but will the circumstances. It’s the same for millions of us and is anyone listening?
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
#internationalwomensday #ME disproportionately affects women by a ratio of approx 4:1 & women are more likely to have #SevereME than men. We are disbelieved, mocked and ignored. Very little funding for research, treatment or education. Would this be the same if the ratio was reversed?
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Do @actionforme and @MEAssociation support the #FundThePlan initiative? Have they seen the incredibly moving videos? Perhaps they would like to lend their support and voice to try to save the Delivery Plan and the requests that #pwME are asking for Many members would support this if they knew.
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The effects of #ME are vast. Families are split apart, friends turn their backs, employers can’t put up with unreliable employees. Worst of all Drs here been taught that it’s an imaginary illness because standard tests show that there’s no problem. There is! #FundThePlan 🙏
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ThereForME @thereforme.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🎥 Today we’re launching our #FundThePlan campaign! With over a month until the delivery plan is finalised, ministers can still reconsider the resources behind it.  We want to show them why it is important to #FundThePlan. Share a video on social media using our template ⬇️
“Get Involved! If you are able, please post a video of yourself asking Wes Streeting and Ashley Dalton to #FundThePlan. We have a template you can follow and example videos. Use the hashtag #FundThePlan. Tag Wes, Ashley, #ThereForME.”“Script: Dear Wes & Ashley, My name is [...] and I have ME. I used to [...]. Now I can’t [...] The Delivery Plan for ME is an opportunity to invest in our future and reverse generations of neglect. So please, fund the plan.”
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
From #TheRedTreeandME @putrinolab.bsky.social Let’s believe it 🤞🙏
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Whitney Dafoe @whitneydafoe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
From Ronald W, Davis, PhD. - HOPE FOR 2025 - I am very optimistic that soon the major mechanisms that initiate the disease will be found. This will allow a concerted effort to reverse the process and find a cure…. New post on my blog: www.whitneydafoe.com/mecfs/?post=... #MECFS #LongCovid
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Ron Davis's message of hope for 2025 and plea for help
I think of you all every day as I work to untangle the complex molecular basis of this horrific disease…I am very optimistic that soon the major mechanisms that initiate the disease will be found. Thi...
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lucyainsley.bsky.social @lucyainsley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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