Daffodil
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why cant dr. mikovits go work at ruscetti's lab. God someone has to make something happen. someone has to care about lives more than money
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God someone has to make something happen. someone has to care about lives more than money
But do we know if the WPI is shutting down for good, or just until they get things sorted?
There are two threads on this this. Is it possible to merge before things get too far? How do I expedite this?
Hi, to everyone with lots of questions (and that includes me) we don't really know anything yet. We have one story from one person who knows more than we do, but we don't have the full story. This is very much a wait a bit and see event. Bye, Alex
To add to the questions - Why no comment from WPI about what's going on? There is no news release. Our only source of information as far as I know is the blog mentioned in the first post. This is a strange way for a respected Institute to act especially knowing how many patients rely on them and root for them. Are we sure that this was a voluntary shut down?
My other question is - where does this leave all the patients results from testing at VIP lab? Like Dreambirdie, I feel like roaring like a lion!
Just notice the WPI facebook page is gone too...
Amy Dockser Marcus just put out a new article about the WPI mess, she says Mikovits was fired:
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/10/03/scientist-who-led-xmrv-research-team-let-go/
Mikovits is a principal investigator on an ongoing NIH-funded study that will test CFS patients and healthy controls for XMRV or related viruses, and she said that she plans to take her grant with her to a new institution where she wants to continue her work on CFS.
But like many things in the long-running XMRV saga, this may not be simple. Institutions must agree to relinquish grants, and at this writing, it was not clear that the Whittemore-Peterson institute is willing to let the XMRV project go.
Hibernation is looking like an attractive option right now.