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Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 18 March 2016 06:04:48PM *  0 points [-]

There is no 'medical establishment'. There are people trying to work out where their limited amounts of money should be best spent.

http://www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/science-areas/population-systems-medicine/cfsme/

£1.6million is not much, for the scale of the problem, but I would not put my rational charity dollar into CFS funding, or indeed into any first-world medical problem, and I actually have some chance of being a sufferer.