Who benefits from 'CFS' and 'ME/CFS'? by Jodi Bassett/Lesley Ben

[Guest guest]

Who benefits from 'CFS' and 'ME/CFS'? by Jodi Bassett and and

co-written/edited by Lesley Ben, January 2009

For whose benefit was 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' created, and for whose

benefit is it so heavily promoted despite its utter lack of scientific

credibility?

Who benefits from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and 'CFS' being mixed together

through unscientific concepts such as 'CFS/ME' and 'ME/CFS' and Myalgic

'Encephalopathy'-?

Who benefits from the facts of M.E. remaining ignored, obscured and hidden

in plain sight?

The short and simple answer to this question is: medical insurance

companies.

Medical insurance companies were heavily involved in the creation of 'CFS'

and they remain heavily involved in the promotion and dominance of the 'CFS'

concept today. M.E. is a widespread problem, potentially exposing medical

insurance companies to the financial risk of huge numbers of long-term

disability claims. Through the creation of the bogus disease category of

'CFS' these companies have saved themselves many millions of dollars. They

have been able to deny many thousands of legitimate claims. The 'CFS'

concept has saved an incredible amount of money for these companies. This is

why 'CFS' is proving so resistant to scientific reality, despite pressure

from patient groups who are trying to stop the horrific abuse and needless

deaths caused by the 'CFS' scam: because such enormous amounts of money are

at stake these medical insurance companies will stop at nothing to protect

their enormous financial gains.

The problem is not a lack of scientific evidence supporting M.E., but that

the mountain of evidence which exists is continually ignored by those in

positions of power who are abusing that power to further their own vested

interests, helped immeasurably by the creation of 'CFS.' For 20 years this

massive scientific fraud has continued almost unchallenged by the world's

media, human rights groups and governments. It is a worldwide disgrace. The

bogus and financially motivated disease category of 'CFS' must be abandoned.

For more information on this topic, and details on some of the other vested

groups involved, please read on. Sections in this paper include the

following:

1. Where did the artificial 'CFS' construct come from?

2. Who benefits from the artificial 'CFS' construct?

a.. Medical insurance companies

b.. Governments

c.. The vaccine industry

d.. The chemical industry

e.. Psychiatrists

f.. 'CFS' doctors

g.. Medical doctors

h.. The media (including medical journals)

i.. CFS' or 'ME/CFS' (and other) groups that sell vitamins and other

supplements to 'CFS' patients

j.. CFS' or 'ME/CFS' (etc.) so-called patient support and advocacy

groups

3. How have these groups each managed to avoid society's various checks and

balances?

4. But aren't alternate concepts such as 'ME/CFS, Myalgic 'Encephalopathy'

and 'CFIDS' at least an improvement on 'CFS'?

5. But isn't the name 'CFS' a big part of the problem?

6. Conclusion

7. What can you do to help?

8. More information

9. References

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Excerpts:

" The problem is not a lack of scientific evidence supporting M.E., but that

the mountain of evidence which exists is continually ignored by those in

positions of power who are abusing that power to further their own vested

interests, helped immeasurably by the creation of 'CFS.' For 20 years this

massive scientific fraud has continued almost unchallenged by the world's

media, human rights groups and governments. It is a worldwide disgrace. The

bogus and financially motivated disease category of 'CFS' must be

abandoned. "

" The 'ME/CFS' concept is confusing, illogical, strongly reinforces the same

misinformation which is the cause of the problem (i.e. that M.E. and 'CFS'

are the same and that 'CFS' actually exists), and holds back the fight for

justice and recognition of authentic neurological Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

immeasurably. The mixing of M.E. and 'CFS' was invented by these vested

interest groups and it is a tool they use to good effect and as much as

possible. The countries in which the 'ME/CFS' concept is commonplace are

those in which patients are subject to the most shocking abuse, far worse

than that which occurs now in the US. "

" The term 'Myalgic Encephalopathy' is a political creation with no

scientific validity, just as 'CFS' is. It is a trap, a trick. The last thing

needed is yet another vague and ill-defined umbrella term that can easily be

manipulated by vested interest groups. "

" The reason so many patients are ridiculed, sneered at, belittled,

disbelieved, accused of exaggerating or malingering or laziness by medical

staff and by friends and family members etc. IS NOT BECAUSE OF THE NAME

'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome'! "

" The decades of systemic abuse and neglect of the million or more people

with M.E. worldwide has to stop. M.E. and CFS are not the same. Concepts

such as 'ME/CFS,' 'CFS/ME,' Myalgic 'Encephalopathy' and 'CFIDS' are also

unhelpful and unscientific and only add to the obfuscation.- "

" Why is almost nobody doing this? Why is the world letting these groups get

away with such a heinous scam and such appalling abuse on a massive scale?

Why isn't the world caring enough or smart enough or gutsy enough to see

through these slick and well-funded misinformation campaigns, and to act?

How can this be, when the lies are so flimsy and scientifically laughable?

Have we learned nothing from the devastating corporate cover-ups of the

truth about tobacco and asbestos and the government cover-up of Gulf War

Syndrome in our recent past? Where is the World Health Organisation? Where

are our human rights groups? Where is our media? Where are our

uncompromising investigative journalists?

Will it take another 20 years? How much more extreme do the suffering and

abuse have to be? How many more hundreds of thousands of children and adults

worldwide have to be affected? How many more patients will have to die

needlessly before something is finally done? How much longer will we leave

the fox in charge of the hen house? It's beyond sick. "

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Best wishes,

Jodi Bassett

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I've lost count of the times medical staff have said to me: " I don't really

know very much about M.E. You get tired a lot, don't you? " No. I'm 35 and

haven't been " tired " in the conventional sense of the word since I was a

teenager. As anyone with severe M.E. will tell you, it has nothing to do

with being tired and everything to do with being physically ill. On the many

occasions I am unable to watch TV or hold a conversation, sit upright or

walk more than a few steps, it is not because I am " tired " . Trust me,

" fatigue " or " tiredness " don't even register on the scale of how

life-shattering an illness this can be. Tiredness is to M.E. what

forgetfulness is to Alzheimer's disease. Sick, Not Tired by Ciara MacLaverty