The 'secret' (= DWP and MRC) files at Kew….

[charles shepherd]

More from Valerie Eliot Smith:

https://valerieeliotsmith.wordpress...not-collaboration/comment-page-1/#comment-471

 

[eafw]

Thanks for that link Charles. Vaguely knew about the Kew archives, but not that sucessful efforts had been made to release the info.

Looks like an interesting blog too.

 

[Sidereal]

Just reading through these. The section on retroviruses and Behan's comments on enteroviruses in muscle are redacted until 2071 when all of us will be dead.

 

[A.B.]

Just reading through these. The section on retroviruses and Behan's comments on enteroviruses in muscle are redacted until 2071 when all of us will be dead.

This is of course only to protect the patients that are so vulnerable to suggestion that merely hearing about viruses instantly causes life-long symptoms

 

[CantThink]

Very interesting!

 

[CantThink]

Just reading through these. The section on retroviruses and Behan's comments on enteroviruses in muscle are redacted until 2071 when all of us will be dead.

I might still be alive if I live until 91!

 

[worldbackwards]

I might still be alive if I live until 91!

I'l be 93. I intend to live that long out of spite.

 

[A.B.]

This part about Behan wasn't redacted:

Indeed one of Professor Behan's research teams recently identified sequences of an enterovirus which were identical to the polio vaccine virus in a proportion of carefully selected PVFS patients.

The referenced work is this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1794085

 

[Sidereal]

From the long Behan paper (page 129):

We have used steroids (prednisolone 10-60 mg/day) in patients with such incapacitating weakness that they were in danger of losing their jobs but again, no benefit was seen. A two-month course of prednisolone 30 mg/day, with or without azathioprine 150 mg/day, was also tried in ten such cases but no change was seen in their condition. Indeed, the patients seemed to have more complaints at the end of the course than at the beginning.

 

[SilverbladeTE]

And some of the early Polio vaccine work was done in the Belgian Congo
did anyone ever question WHY there?
Because it was one of the world's most horrible regimes on Earth, folk were treated like animals
So risk of unethical or worse behaviour in research there...well...ME/CFS...HIV...hm?

 

[halcyon]

Just reading through these. The section on retroviruses and Behan's comments on enteroviruses in muscle are redacted until 2071 when all of us will be dead.

I'm confused why they would even redact that.

If that was from 1992, he was probably talking about findings from one of these papers:

http://www.bmj.com/content/302/6778/692.short
http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/47/4/872.short

 

[Sidereal]

I'm confused why they would even redact that.

If that was from 1992, he was probably talking about findings from one of these papers:

http://www.bmj.com/content/302/6778/692.short
http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/47/4/872.short

I don't get it either unless he said something controversial maybe.

 

[Esther12]

I wonder what was redacted from the section at the top of page 7 on CBT? S40 is personal information.

 

[wastwater]

I saw a mention of ADEM and TM these are very much hit and run style immune encephalitis TM having a more muscular style presentation.