Talk:Malcolm Hooper

message: Anyone know why Hooper's review on ME in J Clin Pathol was retracted? 78.151.113.7 (talk) 10:06, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Journal of Clinical Pathology Retraction 

message: I obtained the following degrees from the Faculty of Medicine, University of
London, B.Pharm. (1956), Ph.D. (1959). By election I received C.Chem. MRIC
in 1963.
1959: Appointed Lecturer in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, School
of Pharmacy, Sunderland Technical College.
1963: Appointed Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry,
School of Pharmacy, Sunderland Technical College.
October 1969: Appointed Reader in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry,
School of Pharmacy, Sunderland Polytechnic.
March 1982: Appointed Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sunderland Polytechnic.
August 1992: Retired as Professor of Medicinal Chemistry.
September 1993: Appointed Emeritus Professor at the University of
Sunderland.
Throughout this period I taught students of pharmacy, pharmacology, and
pharmaceutical and chemical analysis at honours degree level.
I also directed research at masters and particularly doctoral level. I
supervised some 21 Ph. D. students in all.
I have served as an examiner at many UK universities, and universities in
India and Tanzania, at graduate and postgraduate level.
I inaugurated links with Indian research institutions and universities and
this year we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of these productive and ongoing
links which particularly involved the design and development of new drugs
for tropical diseases and an exploration of natural products associated with
Ayurvedic medicine.
I have published some 50 papers in peer reviewed journals in the field of
medicinal chemistry together with major reviews on the Chemotherapy of
Leprosy, the Chemistry of Isatogens. I have edited one book on the
Chemotherapy of Tropical Diseases.
I have acted as a referee for a number of important journals and served on
one editorial board.
I have served on Committees of the Council for National Academic Awards,
CNAA, World Health Organisation, Science and Engineering Research Council.
I am a member of a number of learned societies including the Royal Chemical
Society, the British Pharmacological Society, and the Society for Drug
Research, SDR, (now renamed as the Society for Medicines Research). For over
12 years I was on the committee of the SDR and served as Chairman for 2
years. This involved the planning and organising of major national and
international conferences.
I have been appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the Gulf Veterans
Association, GVA, and accepted by the Ministry of Defence as their nominee
on the Independent Panel established to consider the possible interactions
between Vaccines and NAPS tablets. I also serve on the Gulf Support Group
convened at the Royal British Legion. My involvement with the GVA brought me
in contact with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, CFS/ME,
and related disorders. Gulf War Illness/Syndrome, GWI/S, has much in common
with CFS/ME.
I am now a patron of the Sunderland and South Shields ME Association and a
member of the Newcastle Research Group which includes eminent physicians and
scientists carrying out research into ME-CFS. One recent aspect of this work
is the identification of organochlorine pesticide poisoning being
misdiagnosed as ME-CFS.
As a consequence of my work with Gulf War Veterans I have also been brought
into contact with organophosphate poisoned farmers, pesticide operatives and
some scientists in this area. This in turn has lead to me giving addresses
at meetings organised by the Pesticide Exchange network and being consulted
by OPIN (organophosphate information network).
I have been interested and associated with the Autism Research Unit,
University of Sunderland, for over 20 years with a growing involvement as
the biochemical studies began to emerge and suggest new ways of offering
help, support and treatment for people with autism.
In conjunction with the Autism Research Unit I am involved in some
preliminary studies on Gulf War Veterans, ME-CFS sufferers, and
organophosphate poisoned farmers and operatives. This research takes the
form of urine analysis for IAG (indolylacroylglycine) an unusual metabolite
found in, in excess, in over 90% of the people examined so far in these
different groups. Whilst this research is in its early stages it does point
to a common underlying biochemical disorder that can be addressed by dietary
changes and supplementation.
I have a longstanding ministry as a Christian lay leader, preacher and
teacher both locally, regionally and nationally. I served on the General
Synod of the Church of England from 1970-1980.
As a voluntary leader I have been, or am involved, in three major campaigns
concerned with the environment.
Against toxic waste dumping in a disused local colliery- it is now a major
recreational site in Sunderland.
Currently I lead CASSS (Campaign Against Sewage in the Sea at Sunderland)
which with Seaham Environmental Association (SEA) have helped to achieve
major changes in the quality of sewage treatment and disposal. We submitted
evidence to the Select Committee on Sewage Treatment and Disposal and have
met with the Minister of State for the Environment, Michael Meacher, on two
occasions.
As Chief Scientific Adviser to the Gulf War Veterans I submitted 45 pages of
written evidence and gave oral evidence to the recent Select Committee on
Defence.
Ward20 (talk) 23:15, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Updated 2007 CV  Sam Weller (talk) 14:48, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  CV 10th Aug 2001 [http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:sZ4GhmWYFYEJ:https://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/wa.exe%3FA2%3Dind0108D%26L%3Dme-net%26P%3D5255+Malcolm+Hooper+cfs+cv&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us]

message: Please do not remove notability tag, he is not notable as academic, notability over all is an other issue. Oh and pls investinme is not a reliable source. Thx, RetroS1mone talk 04:47, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hooper wrote his own cv Sam Weller (talk) 09:29, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: We do not know Hooper wrote his own CV, website is activist, unreliable, and Hooper is a reliable source for his opinions, other things should have third source confirmation. RetroS1mone talk 15:07, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

text: OK I do not know Hooper wrote his own CV, are you so close with Hooper you know that, may be you should think and not edit this article, COI. Thx RetroS1mone talk 15:08, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If you read Hooper's cv above, you will notice the use of 'I', 'me' and 'we' throughout. These are clues to the fact that Hooper wrote his own cv. I do not know Hooper at all, or anyone else connected with the ME controversy. Re your COI tag, I am not a 'major' contributor to the article - I have merely neutralised bias words, and quoted his academic appointments. I do not have, treat, research or campaign about ME, so you will just have to accept I have no COI here. Sam Weller (talk) 17:06, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OK thank you for explaination. RetroS1mone talk 18:15, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability of academic 

message: "Pro organic" is a bias, researchers that say psych factors are not real and they attack psych professionals, they are not pro organic, they are not in medical consensus, saying psych disorders are usually organic. This bias against psych is a common thing in people that do not understand psych and do not want to think they could have a psych disorder bc of social biasses. It is common for alot of people that have psych disorders like hypochondriasis, Lancet review 2004 Barsky and Ahern. These bias words should not go in htis article. RetroS1mone talk 15:12, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You know what else is common? The generalising assumption that a critical view of psychological factors is not about questioning the degree, but instead synonymous with not understanding psychology and/or absolutely refusing any role whatsoever. The reverse example of "pro-organic" bias is "pro-psychological" bias, where psyche-to-soma reactions are a common ideology. Bias can go either way. Tekaphor (TALK) 10:46, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  pro organic and bias words 

message: Once you log in as guest to The University of Sunderland, The Graduate Research School you can search for Hooper. The information is:
Qualifications, BPharm (Bachelor of Pharmacy), PhD (Doctor of Philosophy), MRSC (MRSC), and CChem (Chartered Chemist).
He is Professor Emeritus, the above source does not mention former anything.  Ward20 (talk) 20:11, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hooper qualifications 

message: I'm curious why the last two bullets in the External Links section were removed.  I certainly didn't review them thoroughly, but they appeared to be suitable links to relevant material. --Rob (talk) 21:17, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: I believe this version is better than the one in the section now. Comments please. Ward20 (talk) 02:28, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, it's been nearly a week.  Do we have consensus on this paragraph? --Rob (talk) 06:18, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Good for me. Ward20 (talk) 07:19, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Improved reference. Ward20 (talk) 00:33, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed article to material discussed in this section. Ward20 (talk) 22:54, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was just thinking I should come back and do that.  You beat me! --Rob (talk) 23:10, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Two people that agree is not consensus to use OR sorry guys. RetroS1mone talk 03:46, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gulf War Syndrome advisor 

message: RetroS1mone has reverted Malcolm Hooper's qualifications with the note "Wiki is not having titles and letters, it is manual of style".  While her English obviously isn't great there, I take it to mean that it's not proper Wiki style to include those.  And indeed, in a quick search for "noted professor", I didn't find any articles with their degrees listed.  Personally, however, I think that degrees, qualifications, accreditations and anything else of that nature are entirely appropriate for an article about a professor.  But if Wiki guidelines say otherwise, then obviously they should be left out.  I didn't see any specific guidelines on this anywhere, however, so I thought I'd bring it up here first.  Is there such a guideline?  If so, it would be appreciated if someone can point to it so we can ensure that the article conforms. --Rob (talk) 20:09, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:CREDENTIAL "Post-nominal letters indicating academic degrees (including honorary degrees) should not be included following the subject's name," when Hooper is in Order from Queen of England that is OK, but profi and academic stuff is not there, you say it in text. RetroS1mone talk 20:18, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you.  I would still support having them somewhere in the body of the article, though (which is appropriate, according to WP:CREDENTIAL), to establish what his credentials actually are in reference to CFS, Gulf War Syndrome, etc.  As you've pointed out, he's not a CFS researcher per se, but certainly his background would have a fair bit of relevance. --Rob (talk) 20:47, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Totally I agree. You use a reliable second source and say he has a degree in some thing from here and blah blah blah. Notable people have stuff like it in second sources every where. I will look at it also, i am not trying on censoring reliable stuff. RetroS1mone talk 20:51, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh and I do apologize for reverting the credentials as well, that was entirely an accident.  I had only meant to revert your second edit, not your first.  I've re-instated the removal of the credentials now. --Rob (talk) 20:57, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

text: FYI, for the time being, I'm leaving the re-addition of them up to the original person who added them—Ward20, I think it was. --Rob (talk) 02:24, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: haven't had a chance to get back to this yet sorry. Ward20 (talk) 07:27, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qualifications 

message: BLPN about the deletion of Guardian article and every thing about it. RetroS1mone talk 22:15, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  BLPN 

message: This section added as it is an important addition to his work and as Aerotoxic Syndrome is very closely related to GWS in terms of type of toxic exposures and symptoms. --TCP146 (talk) 13:51, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Aerotoxic Association Scientific Advisor

message: Rolled back 25 versions going back 11 months without discussion. Additionally it gutted the article, removed reliable sources, introduced weasel wording and falsely reintroduced tags that make it appear they have been there since January 2009. This edit was by an editor who has nominated the article for deletion before and the result was keep. This is an extreme example of Wikipedia:Tendentious editing and the editor's edit summary was, "Pls explain consensus at talk". Ward20 (talk) 01:59, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur. RetroS1mone undoes my reversion with the edit summary "Pls explain consensus at talk" but it does not need explaining as it is already outlined on this talkpage. - Tekaphor (TALK) 03:09, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  This [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malcolm_Hooper&action=historysubmit&diff=360467667&oldid=295554350 edit] 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

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