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This post is acceptable because, altho it will rile alot of people, it contains facts. We as Forum participants have to determine whether those facts are correct and if the authors conclusions are correct. Of all the threads it would be terrible to lock this one even though it does arouse emotions.
I've heard these things for several months from several people I trust. My guess is that the facts are all true; the Whittemore's do and have owned VIP Dx Labs for several years. Dr. Mikovits is the Labs vice president. They are pursuing some sort of patent.
VIPDx - That they owned VIP Dx labs certainly startled me. I was relieved when someone pointed out that if you read between the lines that you probably could have inferred this. Honestly, because we don't know how to do that generally it would have been better if they had just said so from the beginning. They apparently bought the Labs long before XMRV was discovered. They also apparently only made their connection to the labs explicit (or mostly explicit) after rumors kept popping up about that.
The problem with the WPI's approach is that in retrospect you can infer bad things about it.
WPI - I don't. My belief is that the WPI is engaged in a very ardent quest to find the cause of their daughter's and others illness. They apparently bought what was I guess Redlabs because it was one of the few labs that did the kind of testing the Dr. Peterson and others needed. They are doing what they can to raise resources for the Institute and the quest to conquer CFS and other diseases. With regards patents. I feel the WPI should go for all the patents they can as that will enable them to grow WPI - which should only help us. Licensing fees and patents and things like that are things any research institution can and should do to build up their coffers.
I don't know Dr. Peterson personally but its inconceivable to me that he would lend his name to a cause that is not about the patients. His entire career has been focused on the patients. In a sense I'm a little pissed off at the WPI for putting themselves in a position in which their actions can be construed this way.
Research - On the other hand not everything has gone well at the WPI. They have contradicted themselves on that patient cohort. It now looks like there were at least 5 lymphoma patients in the cohort (see the other thread). I have heard from several people that some researchers are not getting the reagents they need. Whether the WPI has run out of them I don;t know but there are some people who are frustrated about that. I don't if its just a few (which would probably be inevitable) or alot - I have no idea.
For all their publicity they're a small organization. I had a surprise chat with Dr. Mikovits. At one point I had noted all the errors in the original version of the website (this was in reference to something else) and she laughed and said I wrote the entire thing...I was kind of busy at the time. . If Dr. Mikovits is writing their website you can see they're stretched a bit thin. Her talent is not in writing - her talent is in labwork.
Real Wealth? - I wonder if Harvey is not worth as much as we think. His thing is real estate I believe - not a good field to be in in Nevada in the 2009. The market is still declining - people who bought houses LAST year at horribly reduced prices - are going underwater now because their house value has declined. Real estate here has been hit harder than almost anywhere else. He could have had alot of debts and could now have many less assets than he used to.
I disagree with the authors conclusions but I don't disagree with his ability to post those facts here. He did some digging - good for him/her. We can decide what to make of them.
Facts are truths, not guesstimates, suppositions, insinuations, possibly trues etc etc. These accusations might be true, but until they are proven to be true they are not facts and therefore they can not be said to be correct. Yet................