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    Forbes: "Big Study Linking Chronic Fatigue To Virus May Be Fatally Flawed"

    Wow. In general, the participants on this forum are quite thoughtful. I hope I have this right as I am new here and am not entirely certain how the forum works. I think I was the original post on the thread and there is no nesting, correct? 75 comments on 8 pages. I published a little intro...
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    Forbes: "Big Study Linking Chronic Fatigue To Virus May Be Fatally Flawed"

    "Anderson is only reporting the facts and this has nothing to do with ME/CFS. stop using our community to support your false beliefs with wakefield. he is a fraud just like the weasel." You misunderstand. I have nothing to do with MMR, autism, or Wakefield. I just used this as a random...
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    Forbes: "Big Study Linking Chronic Fatigue To Virus May Be Fatally Flawed"

    I'd like to hear your tactics... for dealing with the press promoting bad information (and I guess a Forbes writer's blog qualifies as the press). I just heard an extremely ignorant Anderson Cooper abuse Andrew Wakefield on CNN. At the end of the 11 minutes Wakefield was starting to turn...
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    Forbes: "Big Study Linking Chronic Fatigue To Virus May Be Fatally Flawed"

    Check out the post on Forbes Forbes has a history of extreme positions on medical subjects. I think this recent post should be read and responded to by those knowledgeable.
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    New ME/CFS Diary at Daily Kos

    Sorry I missed your reply in the holiday rush. Asking about "agenda" is interesting. I had hoped that the information on our website would explain this. As we say there, we began as a group concerned about undertreatment of borreliosis, the infection of which the poorly termed "Lyme disease" is...
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    New ME/CFS Diary at Daily Kos

    I just posted this: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/22/930942/-Fahrenheit-451-for-what-ails-you Please comment over at dailykos. Thanks.