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Colleen Steckel: ME-ICC Info's avatar

Thank you for bringing more of the history to light. I hope more people will read this to understand more about how we got here.

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Don't drink the Kool-Aid's avatar

This hideous creature never will be prosecuted, but just in case he is, he will now claim he has no memory of his many crimes due to recent illness. If he slipped on the ice this winter, cracked his skull open, and died, I would feel **morally obligated** to throw a PARTY! 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉🥳

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Sally Jones's avatar

Brilliant article. Needs wide readership!

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Eleni's avatar

That's just what I would have said if my brain hadn't been crippled by ME for 40 years. Thank you.

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Jo Fox's avatar

Excellent as always. Really the only writer on ME I ever read. Depressing as hell of course. Such a typical ME story - will we ever get justice? You'd think with the arrival of Long Covid, the charlatans would get their comeuppance, but it doesn't seem like it, does it?

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Samuel Kronen's avatar

As an ME patient of over a decade, I'm kind of low key obsessed with Straus. Fascinating and horrible. Hope to find out more about his whole deal in Osler's Web, which I recently ordered.

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Kathy Overman's avatar

Aand he gets very defensive in his book-promoting interviews when asked about Covid or LC from his perspective. Complains that was such a small part of his uhh, distinguished career, that we are asking about. We are then classified as 'they', rather than as people still sick.

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