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Thanks for posting that, gg.
I had a bad feeling when I first saw how much excitement there was in the Fibro forums - not just this one - about MXRV.
Then, when I read the research, that feeling increased:
- the small numbers should not have even led to an announcement
- the control group was only SEVEN people *
I had a bad feeling when I first saw how much excitement there was in the Fibro forums - not just this one - about MXRV.
Then, when I read the research, that feeling increased:
- the small numbers should not have even led to an announcement
- the control group was only SEVEN people *
Incorrect. From the original Science paper:
"In contrast, XMRV gag
sequences were detected in 8 of 218 (3.7%) PBMC DNA
specimens from healthy individuals."
- the sick group was not a general population of people with CFS, but a specific population from one place, just like the famous "Incline Valley Incident" [which never amounted to anything, did it?]
But mostly, that the doctors conveniently had an "allready approved drug" to give the patients who tested positive for either active virus or antibodies.
* Question: doesn't everybody have antibodies from the many harmless retroviruses out there? Maybe the research meant to say "they didn't find MXRV antibodies" [but it didn't say that].
Peace,
S