Coffin, not Collins! I wondered about that too, it's about "endogenous ORIGIN" so maybe he's there to represent the contamination/lab creation view.
my bad on the name. I don't get how endogenous origin could go with contamination, which is what I thought when I saw Coffin. maybe I'm missing something. But the good news is Alter is a moderator. And Alter cares about science and being fair. Alter is skilled at exposing politics-masquerading-as-science-and-concern-for-patients as the politics that it is. So if Coffin is being dodgy at all, it
will become obvious. On the other hand, if there really is something to this endogenous stuff, I'm interested in that.
Suspect we'd have heard more about HHV-6 if Montoya were going to be there, which is a shame, but overall, gift horse, mouth, etc.
right
Funding FIRST. If I recall correctly from earlier discussions of this conference when it was first announced, the conference is supposed to be a check-in about where research is currently going, and is supposed to lead in some way to identification of funding opportunities.
you know my thought was, what good is funding if using bad definitions (esp. Empirical and Oxford, but also the twisted-Fukuda; you do have to first throw out the notion that these studies can be pertient), but you're right, we need funding to get biomarkers further replicated and agreed upon.
I did email my local TV and print news. (Sent them a link to Montoya's recent talk as well.) Hey, I should get the radio, too.
Funding out of this... overall looks promising. There's meat here. Had to be with Klimas and Jason and Schweitzer and the other advocates on board. But wow, yes some omissions and some non-favorite people, but overall, wow. And under the auspices of NIH.
It makes a body hope.
