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The Question is Cause, the answer is Bias and the solution is Human Eyes
Intelligent Design or Spontaneous Generation?
Global Warming caused by humans or caused by natural climate cycles?
No doubt, people with ME / CFS will not agree on the above issues. Many of them will have strong beliefs on these issues. And each position can site evidence.
The question in both of these is not as much debate over the validity of evidence, but what is the cause that produced that evidence.
How can it be that reasonable people can look at the same evidence and come to different conclusions as to what is the cause?
The answer given, from people on both sides, often reflects the bias they bring to the issue, whether it be the instruction they received in college or the instruction they received from their parents. Also, some people are affected by their selfishness, greed, desire for freedom from accountability, a desire for a world with justice or desire to control other people. These desires, on both sides, warp a persons processing of the evidence so they grab hold of the points that back up what they WANT it to prove and dismiss or minimize that which is contrary to what they already believe.
ME / CFS science is plagued by the same problem. Common theories:
These theories take the same evidence and make it fit into a pre-conceived bias. Its easy to do. Logic is used in all the above theories. None are speaking of Martians causing the illness. They are all plausible.
Are patients influenced by the same human frailty? Of course they are. Theyre ideas of the illness are based on what they feel and what tests their own doctors run and what researchers say, that is researchers that present theories that match what the patient already thinks of their illness. Do they consider other theories with an open mind, even if it differs from their own conclusions?
Certainly, researchers come to their research with opinions that shape what aspect of the illness they study and how that study is structured. They will likely find what they are looking for but will rarely find what they arent looking for. So often their own research just furthers their own previous beliefs of the illness. Immunologists find immunological abnormalities, psychiatrists find psychiatric problems, neurologists find neurological problems, virologists find viruses and cardiologists find blood pressure and heart rhythm problems. Unless of course, they are trying to prove something isnt there. Then likely, the study will be structured to not find it.
A united understanding of CFS is not currently attainable as all those involved have drawn conclusions because they depend more on their minds, their bodies, their own motivations and preconceived ideas than their reasoning. A desire for proving what they have already concluded overrides any evidence to the contrary, since that evidence is not visible and not 100%. Their heart is stronger than the mind.
How and where will the solution come?
Looking back at another illness... only when lesions could be seen in the human brain was the dispute of cause of symptoms settled in the case of multiple sclerosis. Similarly, only when a bacteria could be seen in the stomach was stress alone rejected as the cause of stomach ulcers.
Before these medical debates were solved, another scientific debate continued for centuries. The shape of the earth, some thought, was solved by Christopher Columbus. It wasnt. His theory was just one of the thoughts of his day. His discovery of the Americas did not show the earth was circular. The debate continued even among intelligent men. In that case, religious leaders were heavily involved in that debate, with their own bias that completely clouded their reasoning powers. Only when men traveled to the moon and could actually see the shape of the earth, was that debate solved among the world in general.
Since God has not appeared in physical form, the debate over intelligent design or spontaneous generation will likely continue. Jesus of Nazarene, according to his apostles, had to deal with similar difficulties. As critics demanded a physical, visible sign. He refused, according to the reports. He said that by not showing a sign, they could show what is in their heart, whether they wanted to believe or not. He also predicted that later generations would want the same thing.
Since humans can not see CO2 coming out of tail pipes and causing rise in temperatures, also not visible, that debate will likely continue. Nothing visible shows human activity has increased higher temperatures more than past warming cycles of the earth.
If XMRV turns out to be a cause of many CFS cases, it will be the visible evidence that is needed to solve the debate for the illness many patients are suffering from, no matter what it is labeled.
In the mean time, all stake holders need to remember that the question is cause, the answer - even their own - is bias and the solution will be what is seen by the eyes.
If only our pee were blue.
Tina
Intelligent Design or Spontaneous Generation?
Global Warming caused by humans or caused by natural climate cycles?
No doubt, people with ME / CFS will not agree on the above issues. Many of them will have strong beliefs on these issues. And each position can site evidence.
The question in both of these is not as much debate over the validity of evidence, but what is the cause that produced that evidence.
How can it be that reasonable people can look at the same evidence and come to different conclusions as to what is the cause?
The answer given, from people on both sides, often reflects the bias they bring to the issue, whether it be the instruction they received in college or the instruction they received from their parents. Also, some people are affected by their selfishness, greed, desire for freedom from accountability, a desire for a world with justice or desire to control other people. These desires, on both sides, warp a persons processing of the evidence so they grab hold of the points that back up what they WANT it to prove and dismiss or minimize that which is contrary to what they already believe.
ME / CFS science is plagued by the same problem. Common theories:
- Something is wrong in the genetics that causes biological abnormalities, failure in body systems of central nervous system and leading to chronic inflammation and cognitive problems.
- Something is wrong in the immune system that leads to cascading abnormalities that include the central nervous system and chronic inflammation.
- Something happens in the patients childhood that likely warps the persons biological response to stresses, including problems in the central nervous system and chronic inflammation.
- A person is just under so much stress (emotional and / or physical) that a central nervous system failure occurs leading to immune system problems, chronic infection and chronic inflammation
- A retrovirus infects the immune system causing failure that leads to chronic inflammation and central nervous system dysfunction.
These theories take the same evidence and make it fit into a pre-conceived bias. Its easy to do. Logic is used in all the above theories. None are speaking of Martians causing the illness. They are all plausible.
Are patients influenced by the same human frailty? Of course they are. Theyre ideas of the illness are based on what they feel and what tests their own doctors run and what researchers say, that is researchers that present theories that match what the patient already thinks of their illness. Do they consider other theories with an open mind, even if it differs from their own conclusions?
Certainly, researchers come to their research with opinions that shape what aspect of the illness they study and how that study is structured. They will likely find what they are looking for but will rarely find what they arent looking for. So often their own research just furthers their own previous beliefs of the illness. Immunologists find immunological abnormalities, psychiatrists find psychiatric problems, neurologists find neurological problems, virologists find viruses and cardiologists find blood pressure and heart rhythm problems. Unless of course, they are trying to prove something isnt there. Then likely, the study will be structured to not find it.
A united understanding of CFS is not currently attainable as all those involved have drawn conclusions because they depend more on their minds, their bodies, their own motivations and preconceived ideas than their reasoning. A desire for proving what they have already concluded overrides any evidence to the contrary, since that evidence is not visible and not 100%. Their heart is stronger than the mind.
How and where will the solution come?
Looking back at another illness... only when lesions could be seen in the human brain was the dispute of cause of symptoms settled in the case of multiple sclerosis. Similarly, only when a bacteria could be seen in the stomach was stress alone rejected as the cause of stomach ulcers.
Before these medical debates were solved, another scientific debate continued for centuries. The shape of the earth, some thought, was solved by Christopher Columbus. It wasnt. His theory was just one of the thoughts of his day. His discovery of the Americas did not show the earth was circular. The debate continued even among intelligent men. In that case, religious leaders were heavily involved in that debate, with their own bias that completely clouded their reasoning powers. Only when men traveled to the moon and could actually see the shape of the earth, was that debate solved among the world in general.
Since God has not appeared in physical form, the debate over intelligent design or spontaneous generation will likely continue. Jesus of Nazarene, according to his apostles, had to deal with similar difficulties. As critics demanded a physical, visible sign. He refused, according to the reports. He said that by not showing a sign, they could show what is in their heart, whether they wanted to believe or not. He also predicted that later generations would want the same thing.
Since humans can not see CO2 coming out of tail pipes and causing rise in temperatures, also not visible, that debate will likely continue. Nothing visible shows human activity has increased higher temperatures more than past warming cycles of the earth.
If XMRV turns out to be a cause of many CFS cases, it will be the visible evidence that is needed to solve the debate for the illness many patients are suffering from, no matter what it is labeled.
In the mean time, all stake holders need to remember that the question is cause, the answer - even their own - is bias and the solution will be what is seen by the eyes.
If only our pee were blue.
Tina
) who rely on the science and tools of others to practise. There are of course exceptions - those who teach and research are 'real doctors'.