Given that the immune responses in ME/CFS is really screwed up according to several studies... I would really like to know how specific the antibodies are for XMRV? Has it been done-- if so, just point me in that direction!
It is really terrible that the WPI can't get any grants... and people aren't publishing their work--because of that we don't know all the evidence Dr. Mikovits has --which would be really helpful at the present.
We definitely need to see the Lipkin Study go forward, the Hanson study and the Singh Study--and to see the additional results the WPI has accumulated for the last year published. Debates are important in science but I'd like to see this one laid to rest in as fast a manner as would be possible without any loss of rigor.
I feel the suffering of patients compels it.
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Also, regarding the scientists who think that all the XMRV is contamination... I really am not seeing an explanation of how is the WPI able to culture infectious virions ? It is hard to understand how someone taking the position of contamination (for all the ballyhoo in the UK media--- we have to remember some very respected people have, or seem inclined to, take that position) can explain those findings?
To George: I agree... for all the manuscripts that have been written up---(didn't know there where that many--publish all of it! Even if the editor of the journal thinks the data is weak in some respect---and it is hard to believe that is the case with all of them!--publish it and then write an editorial saying why you think that--instead of just leaving all of this work unpublished)