Britain on the Verge of Criminalizing “Malingering” by ME/CFS Patients and Other Desperately Ill People

Scottish lawyer David J. Black attacks the “ruthless war of attrition” on benefits for Britain’s “poor-sick” and its U.S.-based insurance company instigators

Are ME/CFS patients in England and Scotland going to be jailed if they can’t comply with forced labor? This is the stark future of health care in the UK, according to legal consultant and author David J. Black’s recent two-part editorial in Scottish Legal News. (1,2)

I became familiar with Black’s advocacy for ME/CFS patients while writing my 2022 book Ampligen: The Battle for a Promising ME/CFS Drug. (3)

In those 2022 Scottish Legal News columns, Black condemned the physicians, insurers, politicians, and media that were indoctrinated in the “biopsychosocial (BPS) doctrine” of ME/CFS, which portrays patients as delusional for thinking that they are sick. Calling this doctrine “a fraud” used in “gaslighting” patients, Black named the perpetrators, from the offending psychiatrists and journals that published the fraud, to Britain’s National Health System (NHS) administrators who perpetuated the gaslighting, to celebrities who went along for the ride to further their own celebrity. The BPS…