Transcript of exchange on ME/CFS between NINDS Director Dr Koroshetz.& Dr Lipkin at recent meeting

HowToEscape?

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Haha.
Im sure he thinks he does. Maybe why he doesnt persue it as he knows it false illness beliefs. Or like my previous post has said, probably be the end of his research career. He would then be left to charge people a fortune for iv vitamin infusions.
That's rich, coming from someone who is using this the board to advertise their affiliate link code.
 

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I don´t think you can equate that to what heapsreal seemed to be accusing Lipkin of. Seems like it would be best to move onto other threads now, so that is what I will do.
 

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As far as I can tell, the initial accusation seemed to be that, because Lipkin has been aware of ME for a long time, he should have done (an unspecified or justified amount) more than he has. This obviously completely ignores all of his other work in other fields, and doesn't address any issues that he might have had in obtaining funding in order to do any work on ME - but, you know, he should have done more.

Then it later moves on to how he's part, or indeed possibly the main player, in the attempts to cover up ME and prevent it gaining funding. This is despite all of his research work into ME and his efforts to increase funding, which include the video footage linked to in the original post of this thread - but, you know, he's obviously working against us.

It's just a stream of accusations and statements that have no supportive evidence.
 

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My guess would be that the main reason that Columbia's Center for Infection and Immunity has only recently been able to produce so much good ME/CFS-related science is because they only recently have been receiving funding for it - not from the NIH, but from the Hutchins Family Foundation's Chronic Fatigue Initiative. http://www.cfinitiative.org/

If you look at the time line, it's hard not to conclude that evidence from these studies, as well as the findings of The Institute of Medicine report on ME/CFS, played a significant role in convincing the NIH to take the disease more seriously in the last few years. Perhaps it's just coincidence, but Francis Collins did announced the NIH's new focus on ME/CFS only about eight months after both the CII's cytokine studies and the IOM report were released.

It's also hard not to conclude that the attention garnered by the XRMV "episode" acted as a springboard for this new interest. The Chronic Fatigue Initiative was launched almost exactly a year before the negative results from the multi-center XRMV study were announced.

The XMRV hypothesis may not have solved ME/CFS, but it may have inspired others to work to succeed in its wake. That's one of the oldest tales in story-telling - and not a bad legacy.