Fiddaman described as a "precocious, deluded pseudo academic, (who) reeks of narcissistic arrogance"

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/criticalpsychiatry/message/60131

Typical - posts a reply to someone in the middle of the night and doesn’t have the fortitude to give the opportunity to reply! Not everyone has the physical capacity to sit at a computer 24/7 – although he’s obviously robustly well enough to do so! I haven’t seen impatience or ignorance on the Seroxat PIL - so he can’t blame THAT on the DRUG – they must just be additional unfortunate character traits!

I’ll respond again – as usual - after he’s Blogged off !

Bob - ALL facts and statistics used in the blog are referenced and verifiably scoured, the most recent of which were published on the uk.gov web site only 11 days before the being blogged.

How can anyone interpret the observations that -

in England the Paroxatine / Paxil / Seroxat Total Prescription decline started in 2001 when the USA Class Action was announced - 8 years ago
and

that about 7 years of parliamentary interest and media coverage given to Seroxat and the continuance of the 8 year down trend in Paroxetine prescriptions has made no difference to the overall marginal increases in prescription numbers for the drug class, although ALL are affected by the same ADRs, side effects and withdrawal problems.

into an “anti seroxat litigation” statement ?!?!? Although on reflection – I suppose anything’s possible!

In fact in your contrived recount of the 7 year Seroxat campaign – you credit both your own 3 years of efforts and your blog for their achievements – placing both grandiosely above ALL the efforts and achievements made by others who campaigned before you.

Significantly in the last 3 years, Seroxats notoriety has dwindle, along with its costs and total prescription figures, which have only reduced from 1.86 million in stats published April 2006 to 1.69 million in stats published April 2009.

Yet from 2002 to year end 2005, before your self attributed accomplishments, Seroxats notoriety was rife, and it’s total prescription figures plummeted from 3.78 Million in stats published April 2002 to 1.86 Million in stats published April 2006!

As one of your supporters who responded to your review of my Blog said, you keep up the good work – and I undertake to give credit where credit is due - as I have to those who went before you and as I did when you had your meeting with the MHRA …… but I won’t be holding my breath!

Just because a spread of referenced verifiable government statistics and chronological facts is not posted in a way blatantly supportive of your agenda, and shows that just under 7 years of Seroxat campaigning in the UK has achieved very little, and is lacking in accurate substance - doesn’t make it anti your agenda – less viable or constructive – or lacking in accuracy and credibility!

And IMHO your action of reviewing any other person’s blog, including mine, like some precocious, deluded pseudo academic, reeks of narcissistic arrogance, especially after stating in a response on that Blog …… that the Blog is “unclear”, also that you can’t see what “point” the author is “trying to make” and that you weren’t “quite sure where” the author “was heading”, therefore admitting the Blogs content is intellectually beyond your comprehension.

A point, distinctly obvious by your review opening paragraph, written after read the blog – which states:

“It seems the purpose of the following blog I am about to review is to show how Seroxat isn't the worst SSRi to taper from and, it seems, to show, how other SSRi's have a higher rate of withdrawal problems.”

Bob - I hate to be the one to tell you this – but - there are NO comparisons of SSRI / SNRI withdrawal problems on the Tuesday1st Blog, the only reference to ADRs, side effects and withdrawal is in the above observation made in relation to changing SSRI / SNRI prescribing trends and net drug costs since 1998.

That is because there are NO statistics about withdrawal problems published in the Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) Stats that have been used – a fact that had you understood and comprehended the Blogs content - you would have known.

And why the Blog is Called Tuesday1st UK: SSRI / SNRI Antidepressant Statistical Politics

Reality check Bob – Dissing a blog you don’t understand - THAT is perverse and warped – and what you seem to understand even less, is that it’s far more damaging to your own credibility - than mine.

Even you can’t rewrite history – but you can learn from it!

Tues

Ps - If - according to you - I am an ‘Anti-Seroxat Litigation Campaigner’ and therefore my Blog in your opinion is no more than a piece of “Anti-Seroxat Litigation” propaganda - WHY would you want to discuss your “pencilled in“ MHRA meeting with me ??? Or come to that - what apart from your arrogance makes you possibly think - I would want to discuss it with you ???


Pps – Please reference and verify evidence of your statement that I am an ‘Anti-Seroxat Litigation Campaigner’ or remove it from your Blog.