Perhaps I am a conspiracy theorist, but reading this reminds me of Global Warming, sorry Climate Change or whatever they call this now! I used to believe in it because I would see it all the time in the media. Makes sense right, even if the message is wrong, people will start to believe it, if you repeat it often enough!
I think it is about money and control! American money going to the rest of the 3rd world etc.. and more gov't control over our lives! Look where that has gotten us? Years and years of suffering, sorry I would rather die than give up my Freedom! Even with the XMRV discovery, I would give up my life like many brave souls before me!
We're in grave danger of wandering off topic now but I guess I may have started it...moderators be on hand to moderate me as required please...:Retro smile:
Climate Change (then called Global Warming) was the preserve of a few mad hippies like me 25 years ago, it has been a long, slow, painful battle to get it scientifically established. Just like ME/CFS actually - now we too are not quite so crazy as was once assumed. But as soon as you start to win the battle for understanding, in step the controllers of information and the financial interests to finally accept the reality in a road to damascus conversion and make out like they discovered the whole thing, and then twist it to suit their own purposes - ignoring all the advice and experience of people who've been exploring solutions to the problem for 25 years, and instead choosing to adapt to the reality of climate change in a way designed to suit their own purposes of control and to maintain the existing power structures.
Be warned: now we have won our biggest battles they will start to do the same thing to us: they will prefer expensive ongoing treatments, preferably ones we have to take every day for the rest of our lives, in preference to more natural and longlasting solutions which they will continue to ridicule, and they'll prioritise vaccines for everyone else over treatments for us. Once everybody learns of XMRV and the measures they will take to respond to it, people will start to say the whole XMRV thing was dreamt up in order to control us with the new wave of vaccines.
Climate change is real. XMRV is real. How our governments respond to both problems is unreal - yes you're right, it is about maintaining control, that's what they do best, and I can see why the way they are preparing to use climate change right now would make you suspicious.
I very much doubt whether anybody's really planning to reverse the flow of resources from the "3rd world" to America any time soon though, I don't think you need to worry too much about that, lovely idea though it is. The people of Equatorial Guinea, for example, won't be holding their breath for the US oil companies to decide that burning more oil is such a bad idea they ought to shut up shop and stop stealing that poverty-stricken nation's greatest natural resource - with the kind permission of the diamond-encrusted family they bankroll to rule the bare-footed population with a rod of iron. Neither will the rest of the population of Africa be laughing all the way to the bank.
You seem to me to have it all half-right: sure, the powers that be only want to dominate, but they can dominate by manipulating the response to true science just as effectively as by suppressing it. You can't assume it isn't true just because they say it - all that means is that they can't deny it any more and have found a way to make it suit their purpose.
Somebody had better suggest a more appropriate area of the forums for this subject though, if we're going to continue; it's way off topic and I know I'm not helping there...sorry...