Peer reveals 'cello scrotum' hoax

[jonren]

Tee he he Classic


news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7853564.stm

[joliet]

Hehehe. Some poor bugger's going to read that journal in 2200 and write a paper about the plague of "cello scrotum" taking over the world in the 1970s!

[dwad]

What kind of second rate rag publishes this crap?

[jonren]

"What kind of second rate rag publishes this crap? " = = = =Dwad


The BBC, sweetie.

Here's the link again in case you missed it.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7853564.stm

[dwad]

Sorry. Was meant to be ironic. The story is from the BMJ. Where I work.

[tarrant]

This is a serious story being made to appear a bit of a joke.

With several personality types, the human body will respond to beliefs of some medical conditions by automatically producing those symptoms. This is a phenomena documented since ancient times.

Hundreds of thousands of young people have literally starved themselves to death because of some ridiculous belief in a condition called Anorexia Nervosa.

Since the early 80s there has been a tidal wave of new mental health conditions produced by charlatans calling themselves Therapists. Even the courts seem to accept these.

All fictitious and created to generate new patients, new personal glory and money.

[jonren]

"This is a serious story being made to appear a bit of a joke"- - - - - -Tarrant


Yes indeed! Priapism is quite serious but is easily handled.

[wetkingcanute]

A famous English conductor once shouted at a female Cellist:

"you have there between your legs something that can give pleasure to many and all you can do is sit there and scratch at it!

[jonren]

Damn you, Canute I've just blew coffee all over my keyboard. That is without doubt, the joke of the month.

[radge]

Tarrant i think you may have a very good point made there.

[jonren]

Damn! I thought I may have got a laugh with my priapism comment. Ah well

[tarrant]

Possibly jonren.

Never had the condition myself.

Sadly, as you get older, the opposite tends to be closer to reality.

But back to the issue, It is astonishing that a lie such as this can, after all these years be treated as a joke.

[dwad]

Jan 28, 2009 14:52:46 GMT @tarrant said:

But back to the issue, It is astonishing that a lie such as this can, after all these years be treated as a joke.

It was meant as a joke though and it's not caused major harm and now it's been quoted back somewhere influential the authors have pulled the plug on it.

I think it's all rather refreshing. Highlights some of the absudity of medicine and the egos of some of those therein but is ultimately pretty harmless.

[tarrant]

Jokes are on thing.

But using your professional status to pull a joke on everyone is grossly unprofessional, grossly irresponsible and grossly offensive.

But for you, who apparently works for that medical journal, to treat this so lightly demonstrates a fauning arrogance that is utterly breath taking.

The people who did this should be buill whipped.

The really sad part is that people like you, and them are allowed to have children.

[Foxy1]

Jan 28, 2009 15:18:42 GMT dwad said:

I think it's all rather refreshing. Highlights some of the absudity of medicine and the egos of some of those therein but is ultimately pretty harmless.

hear hear! It was a good joke and very funny

[tarrant]

Except when these 'jokes' don't fade into obscurity.

Such as the 'joke' of Anorexia Nervosa.

It seems more likely that these idiots thought they might have an opportunity to cash in on a paper announcing the discovery of some new condition. It didn't work and after so many years, they thought they'd have a little laugh at a dinner part in Kensington.

I'm sure the parents of the hundreds of thousands of young children who have starved themselves to death over the Anorexia Nervosa 'joke' are splitting their sides.

[dwad]

Jan 28, 2009 16:05:29 GMT @tarrant said:

The people who did this should be buill whipped.

The really sad part is that people like you, and them are allowed to have children.

ooookkkaayyy.....

[Libby]

It seems there is an affliction for anything these days, the strangest illnesses and mental illnesses all have very abstract names don't they! lol! I don't agree with it though as it takes the attention of the real illnesses that i treat every shift! lol!

[tarrant]

In the early 90s there was a family living in a Texas trailer Park. The father was over 6 ft and built like an ox. He did manual labour.

The mother was a dumpy little thing about 5 ft.

They had twin boys about 9 years old.

The father comes home one day and announces he is a man inside a woman's body. He starts wearing dresses and makeup around the park.

Needless to say the family were pretty quickly chased away.

The boys went to live with their mother's parents while their parents went to Chicago and moved into a gay communal house.

The sent for the boys a year later to live there as well. The father being a full time cross dresser by this time.

The boys quickly got into fights at school and one was eventually arrested.

A therapist came up with an interesting diagnosis, Obedience Deficit Disorder. The boy got probation.

The father is a cross dresser. The parents live in a gay commune and the boy is Odd!

That therapist made a fortune from that diagnosis.

I recently read that someone had developed it further and decided that it will be a life long condition.

So, these two boys, who's only fault is they were born to a pair of pervert parents who don't give a dam about them are going to spend their entire lives labelled as potential criminals.

But the therapist makes a fortune and other therapists, including in the UK can cash in as well.

How absolutely nice for all of them. I do hope it makes for an interesting and amusing anecdote at the next wine and canapé party in Kensington

Except the two boys! They won't be invited.

[Marshall]

It doesn't do any good pretending to care about those boys when you've stated your desire for all Americans to be shot dead.