Daffodil
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she once called dr. mikovits the C word.
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she once called dr. mikovits the C word.
I don't think ERV is as bad as people are making her out to be. She genuinely doesn't care about the politics involved in CFS; she simply enjoys discussing retrovirology and XMRV is a very interesting topic. If you look back at her very first post on XMRV, it was on an XMRV/prostate cancer study before the WPI's XMRV/Science paper even came out and she was saying how odd she thought things were with that paper. She just hasn't quit talking about how weird the whole XMRV thing is, how disparate the findings are, etc. and I doubt she will until or unless the whole thing finally gets ironed out.
To me ERV (and certan commentors on her blog) are actually a pretty good resource/source of information because they have absolutely no horse in this race and only care about what the reality of the situation is with no need to gloss over areas of contention, sugar coat discrepancies, etc. The WPI would look pretty bad if the whole XMRV thing didn't pan out, the CDC would look horrendous if it was true, the CFIDS Association wants to be objective but patients won't let them be anything but 100% supportive of WPI, etc. There aren't too many unbiased sources of information who are also knowledgable on the topic of retrovirology out there.
the CFIDS Association wants to be objective but patients won't let them be anything but 100% supportive of WPI, etc.