These practitioners felt that despite the periods of great uncertainty, doubt in themselves and growing mistrust of the medical profession, experienced by people living with CFS/ME, they may still find it very hard to accept the ultimate diagnosis.
So when he has moments of doubt (great doubt), they are all the more powerful.
"The actions of today throw great doubt into the ability of both the chairman and the committee to conduct the investigation the way it ought to be conducted," Schiff said on Wednesday evening.
We may just be seeing, in the latest statements from Ben Bernanke and Mervyn King, a growing acceptance from central banks that inflation is the least worst way out of the mess.The great doubt has always been whether central banks will be able to pull this off, or whether markets will push up nominal interest rates in horror.
And when something catches us off-guard, we can stand in meditation for a few moments -- or even for the space of one breath -- and let the Great Doubt of "Yi-mwot-go?" restore us.
The outcome of that pressing question is never in any great doubt, of course.
"As soon as one wants to use one's reason and tries to examine carefully things in themselves, one realizes that one believes only with great doubt most of those things one thought one knew with the greatest certitude.
Together with other evidence, such as the lack of any significant reduction in mortality rates, the low enrolment rates [ 9, 10], and the high costs of the scheme [ 12] cast great doubt upon its cost-effectiveness.
One wonders how many people got the joke, especially when Scott writes: "Few can wish his success more sincerely than we do, and yet without more attention on his part, we have great doubts of its continuance".
"It's a positive thing that there will be a general register of those who need treatment, but the control and protection of access to this register causes great doubts among all the people directly affected by HIV," Sukhova told me.
