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you should post this as a new thread imo with Personal message to W in the heading
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you should post this as a new thread imo with Personal message to W in the heading
Very well said. Unfortunately I fear it will fall on deaf ears (Holmsey, SW, et al).I see from one of Holmsey's posts that Prof. Wessely appears to read some of the threads on here. Well, I'd just like to say that it's a FACT that my life has been made a thousand times worse than it needed to have been over the last 20 plus years directly as a result of HIS and his like-minded colleagues actions and work. It is because of you Wessely that a climate of suspicion and mistrust of ME patients exists in the UK. It is because of YOU that the medical profession treats us largely with contempt. It is because of YOU that we have to fight so hard to obtain benefits under the constant implied accusation that we are workshy malingerers. It is beacuse of YOU that so many ME patients have been made to feel in so much despair that they have taken their own lives. It is because of YOU that crass media outlets such as the Daily Mail can run ignorant polls asking ignorant members of the public that have taken their cues from your skewed output to vote on whether ME is a real illness.
So Prof. Wessely, how can having created such a hellish climate for those of us living in the UK, be defended by yourself? Do you feel good about having made people such as myself feel real despair? How are any of your, and your close colleagues, actions any positive help whatsoever?
And for you Holmsey, I don't think that anyone who has ME has any doubt at all that their illness is a physical one. Personally speaking I've considered whether there could be any psychological component in my ME and I can honestly, hand on heart, say that there isn't. I wish there was, because then I'd stand a chance of getting better. Sure anyone with ANY illness can develop psychological problems that may require help, but that's not what Wessely et al say, they say that ME is CAUSED and PERPETUATED by psychological factors. No it isn't, and anyone with ME would know that.
I find it hard to believe that they would be so diaboloical as to weed out every last CFS patient that really meets whatever criteria set one has in mind. Indeed its hard to believe they would even be able to do that, in the unlikely event that they had the overt intention of doing deceptive research in that way.
If there were only 30 patients, I'd say then that maybe there were no CFSers in the sample. Or, had they found 40% of the subjects to be possible, I certainly wouldnt rush to deny the possibility that the other 60% were poorly selected.
But no real CFSers at all, out of a sample of 170, without employing severe dishonesty? Not possible. There have got to be at least 40 "real" ones in there. The only way to get a little bit less than 40 would be to use Reeves' definition, but they didnt do that.
Fresh, the german prostate study used serology (looked for antibodies) in addition to PCR. They found none.
But is there evidence that XMRV-infected prostate cancer patients should be seropositive? I'm looking and not finding. It shouldnt be hard to find since there are only 20 papers on XMRV.
I second that
What I don't accept is that there wasn't one single genuine PWCFS or ME in those samples.
What I don't accept is that there wasn't one single genuine PWCFS or ME in those samples. There are people who have gone there and tried their best to get better with the offering there. SW would need to be very good at weeding them out and maybe he is. It seems more likely to me that the methods were flawed, a big mistake was made or there genuinely was no XMRV to be found.
Let's just suppose for a moment that XMRV is not the cause of either CFS/ME or of a certain type of aggressive prostate cancer. Let's just imagine for a moment that it is a harmless little retrovirus that hangs around doing no harm. Even in that case, they should have picked it up in 4% of those tested if their methods were accurate. The fact that they could not find it in anybody sounds a HUGE alarm bell for me. Their methods were faulty. Period.
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