Can A Leopard Change its Spots? ME and the NIH

In 2016, just as the NIH was gearing up for its first ME study in decades, Hillary Johnson talked to pop historian and ME-denier, Canadian Edward Shorter.

The outcome of the National Institutes of Health’s eight-years-in-the-making study of 17 mildly-afflicted ME patients was predictable. I have dreaded the project’s results since NIH publicized its undertaking in November of 2015 with the hype and swagger that characterizes that agency. That announcement followed a February 2015 report by the Instit…