The sheer volume of international research into the virological aspects of ME makes it all the more remarkable that in the joint Royal Colleges’ report CR54 on CFS, Wessely et al dismissed the virological aspect in a mere 2½ pages of the 58 page report.

For someone who claims to practice "evidence-based" medicine, such consistent and repeated failure even to consider for review the available evidence inevitably raises questions about Wessely’s role in the perception of myalgic encephalomyelitis.

It is time that his role was addressed, exposed and examined, so that if there has been no scientific misconduct (and if no-one, including Government, has been misled by mis-information and by manipulation of the existing knowledge) the matter must be dropped; if however, the charge is found to be justified, then Wessely must surely be called to account. Too many people have been too damaged for too long, and someone is accountable; many informed people believe that it is Wessely who is accountable.