Currer, Mark
Exactly! There's vast vested interested for all these issues to....go away.
What pisses me off is that many folk simply will not believe such is possible, despite the vast cover ups and millions of deaths caused by the tobacco, pharma, nuclear and other industries and government, who all suck each other's man-prawns for mutual moolah!
AND
that scumbags could do such in the first place...it's certainly cultural and maybe even species suicide in the long run.
A) As I keep trying ot get folk to see, "Science" is absolutely not the neutral, honest "deity-like-being" that many think
While most researchers are honest, the scumbags have bought up many of the so-called "neutral, peer-review" publications, so they can put THEIR editorial controls in place (See Wakefield cases,right or worng, the Lancet is nothing better than a pharma-ad rag, see who owns it!)
Funding can be drastically altered very easily by "whispers in the right earholes", promises of lucrative job contracts, threats to tenure etc.
And, you can suggest that "such findings could threaten the whole integrity of science!" or other bullshit along the lines of "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs"
Thus, the whole of research gets slanted towards what is "acceptable/profitable/doesn't rock the boat".
And yes, there's pomposity and arrogance invovled too in some researchers and "groups" see the "psychobabblers" for instance.
EVERYTHING is heresy until it becomes orthodoxy for many, because flexibility of mind is not common, alas.
Most research is honest, but "slanting", bias or "burial" can and does occur
B) This field is very very complex and not at all "certain". Hence I keep saying NO ONE should get dogmatic and stupidly self assured on whether XMRV causes ME/CFS or exists on EITHER side of the arguement.
Give it time, ladies and gentlemen, at least another two years and even then, like anything in science, keep a weather eye on it because NOTHING is certain, not ever.
Thus the hoopla "Science" etc has done vs XMRV is outrageous.
Yes, it means it's "shaky" indeed, but not "disproven" because too much evidence lies on "pro" to simple ignore it, which has been done, it has been ignored.
Strong doubt or concern, is fine
Complete refusal, is not.
C) Do folk grasp the meaning, the outcome if Humans, cell lines, vaccines ARE infected with this class of virus, hm?
Bet your sweet damn ass the insurance, vaccine and other companies do!
Lawsuits in the billions, maybe trillions of dollars.
Vast genetic damage and ill health to Huimanity and God only knows *how many other pathogens* may have been spread this way, including ones we at this time,
do not know of or have any ability to detect.
How arrogant and STUPID are we to be mucking around with genetic material like this, injecting our young with it, when we still know jack shit about almost anything?
It's only in last few decades we've came to understand what retrovirusesm prions and mycoplasmas are, so how bloody many other unknown types of pathogens may there be, hm?!
Let's put this in perspective:
see, the nuclear industry/war machine.
Nutbars polluted
vast areas of land, killed huge amounts of people in ways that made it hard to detect/comprehend and took decades to get through any of the lies and secrecy and there's still
asstons we don't know.
Andrei Sakharov, the Russian bomb designer/physicist calculated that his "super bomb" test, despite being about the cleanest, safest test ever in terms of radiation (paradoxical but true), would still kill 500,000 over centuries, millenia, because of the fallout that spread worldwide. Almost impossible to weed out form normal cancer/illness deaths but he calculeted it, and was horrified, and started protesting against nukes (and suffered for that)
By comparison, nuclear versus biological, nukes are freakin old fashioned weak ass dynamite versus Sarin nerve gas.
The threat posed by artifial pathogens and screw ups is Brobdignian, it's SO big folk cannot see it.
GM Crops, humongously stupid, why?
Um, Monsanto, those scum deliberately covered up the diabolical effects of Agent Orange and they are now making GM crops...why is that bad?
Ok, they screw up, modified genes make a food staple poisonous, world famine nesues, hundreds of millions die.
That ain't "hyperbole" it's plain common sense fact, it's already been shown that their safety statements were ludicrous bullshit, cross pollination has occured.
And it's being done by a company with a proven track record of deceit and complete disregard for human life on a titanic scale
Australian scientists developing a new virus to combat the plague of rabbits damaging Austrlain crops/land had accidental release of their incredibly lethal/transmissable virus, fortunatley, it wasn't Human transmissable AND they had the sense ot have the research centre on an islandm otherwise...!
Now think what may happen with all the commericial and US biowarfare labs you/we've got....catastrophic accident is absolutely inevitable. (and as I have noted even NATO partners have stated the USA's so-called biodefence initiative is simply too damn large and risky to fall under true "defence")
And with some pathogens you may never know damage has been done until far far too late. See Lyme.
And more complex the science gets, greater potential hazards get.
US authorities calculated that there was a 60+% chance of a catastrophic accident at a new US biowarfare lab that's to be built, to study animal and plant pathogens, where do they plan to build it? In middle of one of USA's main cattle/farming areas...
See Also Russian's "Biopreperat", lunacy, at least that was stoppedm a freakin TON weight of smallpox virus they had, which was oh about maybe 100 times more potential deaths than world's nuclear arsenal...not that you could wipe out the Human Race 100+ times but you get the idea
So, by comparison, the threat from the nuclear issue (which was/is huge), is tiny by comparison vs biologicals.
You've heard of "briefcase nukes", they are NOTHING compared to the power of a flask of the right pathogen, in *anyone's* hands, sorry but the odds are it will
not be a terrorist who'll wipe a city, state or nation out with a bioweapon, but some dipshit accident from a legitimate lab, or assholes propertedly developing "biodefence" materials.
Sigh.
I swear, Humans are the stupidest bunch of poo-flinging, monkey dipshits!
And
I'm not a Luddite nor mysanthrope. I just can't lie to myself.
