Reaction to the draft guideline for ME/CFS has really highlighted how difficult it is for some men - and they usually are men - to accept that they are wrong. 1/4

From Hermann Goring in Nuremberg to Dominic Cummings in the Rose Garden, the default mode of these fellas once they're rumbled is to double down on their misdeeds and say literally anything to avoid admitting they were wrong. 2/4

Such is the parlous state of masculinity in some quarters that entirely unconnected individuals feel compelled to come to the defence of their fellow men, thereby self-identifying as chicken-hearted apologists of falsehood - self-appointed bodyguards of bullshit,if you like.3/4

Their reaction to the new (draft) guideline for ME/CFS, which affords patients some protection from the disbelief and potentially harmful or inappropriate treatments hitherto prescribed by HCPs, lets everyone see their priorities: self-preservation and screw the rest. 4/4