On #LongCOVID Awareness Day, the Science Media Centre put out an article arguing to stop calling the disease Long COVID. They also implied that it wasn't very bad to have Long COVID. Let's replicate a good thread from The Bad Place about the UK's Science Media Centre & their interests.

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social perhaps a thread of interest to you.

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The Centre calls itself "an independent press office for science, working closely with press officers from universities, scientific companies, research funders & leading science and engineering institutions." (1/13) 🧪 #pwME#LongCOVID

Supposed Science media which don’t have affiliations with University science departments and therefore doctoral and post doctoral individuals are NOT real science media. They are selling something overly expensive or they are trying to influence the population against actual scientists.