A series of excellent articles by the recently late David J Black, presented by Scottish Legal News
(1 Jun 2021) – David J Black explores the dangers of orthodoxy in the first in a four-part medico-legal series
https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/orthodoxy-on-trial-the-pathogenesis-of-a-diagnosis
(3 Jun 2021) – David J Black looks at the shameful treatment of ME/CFS sufferers in the second part of his medico-legal series
(8 Jun 2021) – In part three of his series on the ME/CFS saga, David J Black examines the durability of medical dogma in the face of facts and the risk of a new psychogenic orthodoxy prevailing with a generation of Long Covid sufferers, whose malady bears a striking resemblance to ME/CFS.
Orthodoxy on trial III: Did flawed science beget flawed law?
(10 Jun 2021) – In the final part of his medico-legal series, David J Black explores how Covid-19 has thrown into relief the maltreatment of ME/CFS victims. The boon to life sciences afforded by the pandemic and the huge sums invested in researching Long Covid have left the psychogenic hypothesis a sinking ship. The plight of ME/CFS sufferers is out of sight, out of mind no longer – a day of reckoning is coming
Orthodoxy on trial IV: So long, psychogenia – but not quite yet
(14 Mar 2022) – The the relentless persecution and unlawful imprisonment of 960 innocent sub-postmasters & the PACE Trial
David J Black: The mysterious invisibility of accountability
(16 Mar 2022) – David J Black continues to investigate the biggest medical scandal of the 21st century.
(22 Mar 2022) – Prone to making the facts fit their theories, academics have, for decades, gaslit ME/CFS sufferers by telling them their condition was all in their heads. To compound matters, a pliant British media happily preached the false biopsychosocial gospel and misery ensued
(29 Mar 2022) – The final part in David J Black’s forensic examination of the ME/CFS scandal looks at alleged scientific misconduct and a possible cover-up
David J Black: Cherchez la shrink
(10 Mar 2023) – It seems odd that a psychiatrist once described in a Times interview with Stephanie Marsh as “the most hated doctor in Britain” should suddenly become the most all-powerful doctor in that very same benighted realm – yet that is precisely what has happened.
(24 Jul 2024) – On the 1st of May Sir Sajid Javid initiated a parliamentary debate on the UK’s abysmal record on the care and treatment of ME/CFS patients, whose ranks are now much augmented by Long Covid sufferers. There was an almost identical debate held in February 2018 in which the member for Glasgow North West, Carol Monaghan MP, damned a grossly manipulated research trial (PACE) into ME/CFS as “one of the biggest medical scandals of the 21st century”.
(14 Nov 2024) – According to The Times of November 1st the total cost of state support for the sick will exceed an unprecedented £100 billion a year by the end of this parliamentary term.
David J Black: The great health expenditure catastrophe – diagnosing a failed panacea
(27 Nov 2024) – In part two of his series on dysfunction in our health system, David J Black reminds us that the cost of bad medicine is people’s lives.
David J Black: Economic fallacies and public health realities
(28 Nov 2024) – David J Black traces the origins of a scandal in plain sight and calls for a judge-led inquiry in part three of his series on the continued plight of ME/CFS sufferers.