Guido den Broeder
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As you keep attacking a position that I do not have, I won't respond anymore to your posts.
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I thought your position was that no choice need be made.
We can just call all the outbreaks "ME" indiscriminately.
Perhaps in a colloquial way, but for purposes of research, we need to primarily consider ME to be the evidence assembled by Ramsay at the time of Royal Free, or the minimum requirement of displacing the earlier paradigm simply reverts ME to a lower standard.
Which disqualifies a name for serious study, as the framework of what it represents can not be agreed upon.
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"You insist on a choice that need not be made. It is possible to apply the agreed on terminoloy, i.e. ME, and yet not discard the evidence from individual outbreaks. Akureyri and Tapanui also have evidence specific to those outbreaks, for instance."
People who then said "There were other clusters, Tahoe was no different."
Which effectively neutralized the new evidence.