There has been no reported harassment of staff at Bristol University. Yes, you read that correctly.
We have all become accustomed to the increasingly shrill ‘harassment’ accusations against ME patients
and ‘activists’, both via the media and in lectures. This campaign appears to have originated at that now
infamous meeting of the Science Media Centre, revealed by our original 2014 Freedom of Information
Report, now updated under the title Shining a Light on the CMRC Setup (http://www.tymestrust.org/pdfs/ shiningalight.pdf). Members of the UK Research Collaborative have continued to spread these allegations ever since its launch.
In Shining a Light we stated: In the records of the meeting where ‘harassment’ of researchers was discussed, no mention was made of personal threats such as have been reported in the media. Freedom of Information (FOI) requests were listed as the most damaging type of ‘harassment’. The 2016 tribunal appeal Judgement ordering QMUL to release the PACE trial data highlights that Professor Trudie Chalder accepts that “no threats have been made either to researchers or participants”.
And yet the accusations persist and have even escalated. Tymes Trust has found this constant narrative so abhorrent that we have sought some answers. We have, once again, sought evidence.
You can read the rest of this report here: http://www.tymestrust.org/pdfs/noharassmentbristol.pdf