Rutherford Ph.D. Thesis: Investigating the biochemical basis of muscle cell dysfunction in CFS

[msf]

Yeah, if you read through it, there are quite a lot of mistakes in the writing up of the results.

 

[msf]

Conclusion: the author may have got their PhD from the University of Newcastle, but they would have failed to get their PhD from Phoenix Rising.

 

[msf]

At least not without significant alterations, anyway.

 

[sdmcvicar]

Conclusion: the author may have got their PhD from the University of Newcastle, but they would have failed to get their PhD from Phoenix Rising.

But this is good. No research project or dissertation is perfect. This young scientist is having her work actually read with an attempt at understanding by a larger number of people than most (maybe 8 people have read my dissertation, if I'm lucky). Hopefully our critiques will be read to help inform future experiments, and be a useful part of the ongoing training of this young researcher.

 

[alicec]

Washing with patient (and control) serum would at least tell us more.

It may need more than washing - eg incubation for a certain time to see an effect. Of course this could be tested as part of the experimental design.