alex3619
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Hi Willow, yes, they are speculating on minimal info I am guessing. The full release from official sources will be much more interesting. Bye, Alex
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The full release from official sources will be much more interesting.
The newspapers may lift the conclusions straight off the press release from the SMC. They have done it before. With PACE I found one journalist only read the SMC briefling and didn't read the paper or anything else connected to it. He picked his quotes from the SMC press release and went no further.
I hope soCII saying the embargo-breakers have done a "deplorable job" at least gives me hope that there's more to the story and that it will be INTERESTING.
More like 12 hours from now....interesting times, is it another 3 hours before we see the whole conference?
Its only bad news if misreported. Any advance on the knowledge is good news, though perhaps disappointing. Further information will be available soon, and its not surprising that some media has run off the deep end into hyperbole. The Belfast article however states very clearly that CFS is a physical disease. On the other hand the Scottish report is:
"Viral infection ruled out as cause of ME"
It seems they have non-science reporters reporting again - this statement can easily be misinterpreted.
The most extreme spin is yet to be seen on this though. As PWCalvin pointed out, if they start with "viruses don't cause CFS" or anything to that effect, they are misinterpreting the science or deliberately spinning the result.
Bye, Alex