RustyJ
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I think this forum just went over half an hour without a single post. Never seen that before. Sigh.
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Anyone who can sum up the blog post in a couple of sentences? I don't have the health to read so much. The short story:
- WPI will not be doing XMRV research no more, or not retroviral reserach at all? If yes, to the first or latter, what's the reason? Because of money or what?
The second sentence from the blog really covers it all, Redo:
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The entire WPI research program has been closed by the institute's CEO, and the facility is now locked down. It's former principle investigator, Dr. Judy Mikovits, is in active discussions concerning institutions to which she may move to continue her grant-funded research.
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So, no more WPI but Dr Mikovits may continue her research elsewhere.
The second sentence from the blog really covers it all, Redo:
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The entire WPI research program has been closed by the institute's CEO, and the facility is now locked down. It's former principle investigator, Dr. Judy Mikovits, is in active discussions concerning institutions to which she may move to continue her grant-funded research.
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So, no more WPI but Dr Mikovits may continue her research elsewhere.
Just notice the WPI facebook page is gone too...
@WPInstitute
WPInstitute
WPI's Facebook page is in maintenance for updates/changes. I'll let you know when we are back online. Andrea
30 Sep via Twitter for iPhone
Is the insititue's CEO Annette Whittemore? If not, who is the CEO.
Anyone found out what the young whittimore girl is being treated with, maybe going to push that at WPI, **********
Does the first post give an answer to why it's shut down? Does it have anything to do with the BWG stuff? (I haven't got the health to read through the whole thing).
Thanks for the short story. About the last thing. JDJ's opinion that "WPI is now an obstacle to progress", does it say why she thinks that? If the WPI is closed they aren't an obstacle, they would be more of a not team player, but obstacle. Does the blog post give any indication why she chooses those words?
They were, and are, in over their heads. They started with the best of intentions. We will always owe them a debt of gratitude for the spark of genius and the increased awareness they have brought to our disease. But now, the work needs to be done by someone with the resources to do it right.
Hi Redo,
I think these are the key points from Dr. Deckoff-Jones's blog-post (some of them being, of course, her own personal opinion):
- the entire WPI research program has been closed
- Dr. Mikovits is negotiating with other institutions so she can continue her work and still believes her original research is correct and cannot be explained by contamination
- all XMRV/HGRV testing performed by VIP Dx is null and void
- VIP Dx tests were not validated against WPI methods or performed with appropriate controls
- the BWG specimens were run in both the WPI research lab and the VIP Dx clinical lab but cooperation between the two labs was troubled
- the relationship between the WPI lab and VIP Dx broke down entirely (and the WPI lab closed) shortly after Dr Mikovits said "VIPdx lab will NOT continue XMRV-testing because it hasn't been shown to be reproducible in [the] Blood Working Group"
- Annette Whittemore overstated the effectiveness of the treatments being offered at the WPI clinic
- the WPI is now an obstacle to progress
I'm happy to alter this if I've misread / misinterpreted things.
Sam