Why has ME/CFS Research Stalled for Four Decades?
The troubled history of scientific ineptitude and patient suffering—AMERICA’S BIGGEST COVER-UP: Chapters One & Two
In 1988, I began covering the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic—now referred to as ME/CFS in government documents and elsewhere—weekly at the New York Native newspaper. In 1992, I drew upon those weekly columns to write a book—America’s Biggest Cover-Up: 50 More Things Everyone Should Know About The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic And Its Link To AIDS. It was published by TNM, Inc., the owner of the New York Native, as well as St. Martin’s Press in New York; in Japanese by Shindan-to-Chiryo, and in French by Les Editions Logique.
Almost three decades later in 2021, I learned that the British medical journal Healthcare had published a special edition devoted to “severe” and “very severe” ME/CFS. I was stunned by how little progress had been made in the preceding 29 years.
The 2022 Kindle edition of America’s Biggest Cover-Up: 50 More Things Everyone Should Know About The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic And Its Link To AIDS, Updated 2nd Edition contained not only…
