Comments to the article in the Gelderlander
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Looking for answers, we approached yesterday, Dr Judy Mikovits, research director of the WPI and director of the XMRV research. They gave us a telephone interview the necessary answers. "Frank Kuppeveld seven samples sent us," said Mikovits. "They were numbered 1 to 7. It was cDNA, which he had made of RNA. "
The WPI tested the seven samples with an advanced PCR technique in a closed system, so no contamination (pollution) could occur.
Three samples were positive.
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The attitude of "Nijmegen" to patients with chronic fatigue is scandalous !!!!! Anything that does not fit into their dogma is denied, blinkered research is not science! Unfortunately, the attitude of "Nijmegen" good politics, no expensive care for people whose complaints "between the ears" are!
Is the "Ask" now also other expensive patient groups tested to demonstrate that substantial savings could be on? How is this political pseudo-science? Stop the quackery!
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- There is no contamination, it is excluded
- This is a real and potentially harmful virus that attaches to various organs,
CVS is a by-Nijmegen stretched diagnosis, where all people for more than 6 months are weary heading. ME is the original group that started these investigations ever. By speaking about''special''patients confirm you this picture, there is a clear subgroups. This also explains why only 30% of CBT patients works. This Nijmegen gepropangeerde therapy is right for one selected by their''special''patient group, you will never for the whole group found a clear cause or treatment, this is the fallacy,
- Patients know all too well that these fatigue-which contain no more symptoms between the ears, since they have no confirmation of these scientists is needed. Patients want to heal and know where they are really suffering and not to bunch the reeds are sent with no effective treatment such as CBT,
Interestingly, the way Nijmegen XMRV deals. What a bias that is unprecedented.
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U.S. samples are not from a specific area, but patients throughout the U.S., just that the WPI has expanded its last letter put out!
And in the only lab that until now a fairly sensitive test XMRV (vipdx), a daily XMRV positive cases were found.
Even in these blood samples of Nijmegen 20 years old (1991), and patients themselves as ME patients were selected by filling out a questionnaire (these patients are not medically examined !!!), so possibly a large number of depressive / no ME sufferers are, the WPI is a significant number of cases XMRV!
The WPI has verified its results include the National Cancer Institute, and the Science study worked the first discoverer of the virus XMRV (Silverman) along! But admit Nijmegen'm wrong (and ME is not psychic), would end their whole heart Chronic fatigue mean end of career, reputation, power, money etc
Abroad, no one takes these "scientists" seriously, but unfortunately they have much power in the Netherlands
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What are the most unprofessional is the concealment of evidence that your research is flawed. Van der Meer who really has a plate on his head. Or rather worse, he just tries to twist the whole thing. If you do before you publish all evidence to the WPI that some XMRV same blood samples is (3 of 7 am) then it's case first clarify what it the problem is before you publish. But no. And also again logical because many CFS patients will have a half years psychotherapy follow when a retrovirus in their body have their complaints might explain. Allow at least one was really the first treatment target.
A good example of what not to do. Let research conducted by people who are independent! Not by someone throwing his glass as he XMRV would find in an investigation. Who strongly believed the findings of a study on the harmfulness of tobacco smoke made by Phillip Morris ....
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If someone accused who have contaminated the samples seems to me that there is absolutely no question of "friendly rivalry". I call to throw mud. Not very professional response from the gentleman of the gentleman Kuppeveld.Laat simply more concerned with psychology rather than with retrovirussen.Een refresher course approach or conflict would not hurt him.
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To my knowledge, the Whittemore Peterson Institute XMRV never claimed that the retrovirus would be the cause of CFS, they claim only the virus in more than 95% of patients with ME, fibromyalgia an atypical MS have found.
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I must say that I am preparing Kuppeveld of this highly inappropriate. I believe scientists should always be flexible, even or perhaps even criticism of others. It is quite a coincidence that Dutch and 2 British studies could not find - in both countries there is the idea that fatigue would be curable through behavior. Also very coincidental that the biggest proponents of this behavior contributed to the investigations of this retrovirus, as I recall the first time that psychologists are involved in retro virology!
