So what are you doing Justin to inform the powers that be that we need more funding?
cort: maybe it's just me, but recently...like the past week or so, the tone of your posts have been very harsh and sarcastic...when i read them i feel like you are responding to people with a slap in the face first and then your answer. i don't know if that is your intent...but i just thought i would reflect that back to you.
i know the tone of many posts have been tense and harsh lately, but if you as the leader of this board slip into that same voice it is very dangerous. it reminds me of a toddler who starts to bite and so the parents start to bite him back to teach him a lesson, to get him to stop biting....a very freaky strategy if you ask me : )
a day or so ago, i noticed posts from someone new, judderwocky...they are like a breath of fresh air here....insightful, knowledgable and kindly in tone. i hope we can all get back to that.
warmest regards
You're accurate. Its become more and more difficult for me personally to maintain a moderate tone. I don't if its just because its a 100 degrees in my apartment or because I'm just tired of the negativity. I really believe that the Forums need to take a more moderate tone...that there's too much bickering...too much aggression and really just too much negativity going on. Generally what I react negatively too are really negative posts.
I know my reactions just fuel the flame and that doesn't work....but somehow I feel we've got to turn these Forums over to people who can post moderately, and who want to post in a constructive manner - basically people who want to work things out - rather than be right about X, Y or Z or want to affix blame to whomever.
I do speak to people who've either left the Forums or don't post as regularly because they're simply afraid to say anything that might blow up in their face. It disturbs me that the Phoenix Rising Forums are becoming known as a kind of no holds bared, aggressive, inflammatory Forums. That's never been my way....
I came across a view posts of people slamming some DHHS official for saying that the link between CFS and XMRV had not been fully established. They treated him as if he was part of some conspiracy - but what he said was true in his eyes..until we have a positive validation study no researcher in the world could say otherwise - they would be out of their job. I realize thats a kind of technical point but honestly that really grated for me - nobodies ever heard of this person - he has no connection to CFS at all - and hes already gotten wrapped up in some conspiracy. It was a little thing but that got to me....
I do realize that the uncertainty about XMRV's fate in the research world has increased tension levels and things will calm down at least a bit as the studies come out.