Tony Mach
Show me the evidence.
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There is still the claim that "XMRV was found in Sjgren's patients" floating about in the internet, so I thought I find out. This is the response I got from Gabor Illei
Of course you are free to conclude that he has a political agenda to hide "the truth" or that he is incapable to find out the truth, but you would thereby without evidence! questioning his scientific integrity. And some people rightfully take issue when scientists are smeared without a hint of evidence.
In my view occam's razor says there is no XMRV in patients no matter whether cancer, ME/CFS, Sjgren's or any other disease.
What I find especially unhelpful is that these cases of contamination are taken as proof that several diseases are somewhat "similar" or have something in common when the only "evidence" for this is contamination. No, diseases are not "all the same" and I regard that view as dangerous for all patients.
And don't try to move the goalposts: If a study was good enough for you when they found XMRV, then it should be good enough if it turns out the other way.
We have done some preliminary studies trying to detect XMRV in DNA derived from peripheral blood of patients with Sjogren's syndrome and controls. We used PCR only and did all the experiments in house. The study cited on several internet sites was a presentation of a work in progress at an NIH event. Since then we have done some additional control experiments and now we believe that the findings were due to contamination. I am not aware of any other group looking at XMRV in Sjogren's.
I hope this helps,
Best regards,
Gabor Illei
Of course you are free to conclude that he has a political agenda to hide "the truth" or that he is incapable to find out the truth, but you would thereby without evidence! questioning his scientific integrity. And some people rightfully take issue when scientists are smeared without a hint of evidence.
In my view occam's razor says there is no XMRV in patients no matter whether cancer, ME/CFS, Sjgren's or any other disease.
What I find especially unhelpful is that these cases of contamination are taken as proof that several diseases are somewhat "similar" or have something in common when the only "evidence" for this is contamination. No, diseases are not "all the same" and I regard that view as dangerous for all patients.
And don't try to move the goalposts: If a study was good enough for you when they found XMRV, then it should be good enough if it turns out the other way.