insearchof said in one of the many illuminating paragraphs that:
I find insearchof's comments very astute.
For those like Singh-they know the money-future money-is in Cancer research, she is going for the BIG BUCKS. If it takes turning her back on the retro-virologists, virologists, immunologists, etc., it is okay for her. Even to the point of saying anything she thinks those money givers want to hear. She didn't need to actually state that she decided XMRV isn't the right alley to look for the cause of ME/CFIDS-that is overkill, and alienates many people. Yes. Where did she think the tumors come from, eh? as pointed out by many of you. Silverman's team and others made that connection, did the underpinnings long ago.
I don't see the "contaminated reagent" thing here for WPI's lab-they were careful to go from scratch, and constantly checked. So Singh can't explain it-uh huh. She found the robot problem, sure. Maybe her reagents had some problems, but not the WPI study nor Alter-Lo's. Singh really went for overkill-unnecessary-by choosing to say dismissive things, without backup, and try hard to make questionable back-up.
WPI already knew about the Prostate and Breast Cancer connection- and it had already been done in many ways via the Silverman lab (and I, by the way again, am glad Silverman et al redid the Macaque work! They should feel relieved again). I thought her numbers were low. However....
Lotta holes in Singh's work-as far as drawing conclusions out of the air. It takes away from some good work. I was put out she would be so suddenly dismissive. But then, she feels, I believe, that she needs the distance in order to get the big bucks and I think that she sees making such comments will surely get her, and the University, those grants. That she stated peremptorily that using anti-retrovirals should not be done, that was ignorant, dismissive and even cruel. That is so like what the group meeting early on came up with too in their "agreement" which not everyone attended nor was in agreement with. No basis, just that her stuff and her comments are the "it" in "dunk it". Irritating.
G'night everyone. Will be back to hear more. Thanks for permitting me to vent, a bit.