Patient's open letter to Francis Collins: "Testify to Congress for AIDS-level urgency & priority"

[Sasha]

Great letter:

Open letter to Francis Collins, director of NIH, concerning myalgic encephalomyelitis

Dear Francis Collins:

The following happened since I got sick, without the NIH funding myalgic encephalomyelitis (m.e.) as a global crisis:

1. Humans landed on the moon
2. AIDS discovered, science, HIV discovered, excellent treatments; 2015 US funding $30.7 billion.1
3. multiple sclerosis sufferers released from mental hospitals; got science, treatments
4. Galileo pardoned after 350 or so years; Barry Marshall swallowed H. pylori to reverse politics and idiocy
5. CDC lobbied for Tuskegee syphilis experiment to be continued, later got negative Congressional attention; Kathleen Sebelius and Hillary Clinton apologized for Tuskegee-like Guatemala research that occurred after Tuskegee...

More at:

http://www.meaction.net/2016/02/21/...-of-nih-concerning-myalgic-encephalomyelitis/

 

[Daisymay]

Brilliant letter, thank you Samuel Wales, especially when you are so poorly, take care x

 

[ScottTriGuy]

facebooked

 

[JaimeS]

That's incredible. What good work!

 

[shannah]

and here's a direct link to his blog

http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.ca/2016/02/open-letter-to-francis-collins-director.html