Professor Simon Wessely talks about his involvement with the Y Touring productions Starfish and Breathing Country.
He talks about the importance of narrative stories to engage the public with complicated issues and how Y Touring's work is an important part of this.
I also was involved in the Camelford Water Pollution Incident. It was great, there was aluminium in the water supply, nobod knew it and I wrote a report that stated, that the symptoms that showed in the people of Camelford were phychosomatic.
When thousands of fish died and even a few humans died, we couldn't further cover it up though.
But I find it sad that CFS sufferers won't listen to me. That they won't accept that they need psychological treatment...
RyuBlade1980 7 months ago
And I was instrumental in making sure 250,000 people with ME stay sick because using no science at all, I decided ME was all in the mind and I used lots of money the Government gave me and wasted it on developing CBT and GET instead of using the money on Biomedical research into a treatment for these poor people. I think ME is hysteria. I have no basis for that, but I think it anyway.
Saybooboy 10 months ago