Ever wonder what happens to people who seek medical care for ailments that evidence-based medicine has failed to study in-depth? Or to provide treatments or ‘cures’? They are at the mercy of the ‘appeal to authority’ fallacy, perpetuated by the medical profession as it stands. Come and find out if you are at risk of misdiagnosis and medical gaslighting!

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Dr. Melanie Thomson is a microbiologist and science communicator. She has an MRes (distinction) and a Bacteriology PhD from at York, with a post doctoral on Helicobacter at Leeds institute Molecular Medicine. She worked as a research assistant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, developing treatments for life-threatening peanut allergies, and ran her own lab in the Deakin University and Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases.In 2014 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and has since become an advocate for patients. She won the Leadership Award at the 2017 Geelong Awards for People with a Disability, and is a founding steering member of Women in Science Australia.Since returning to the UK mid pandemic in August 2021, she’s worked as a Lecturer in Medical Science at UCLan Burnley and now works as a Research Programme Manager, back in Leeds, working at the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre on the Infection and AMR Themes.

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