It was not Jose Montoya who found evidence of retroviruses in 85% of ME/CFS patients; it was Ian Lipkin who made this discovery, and it was Lipkin who announced this new retrovirus finding.
Lipkin used blood samples taken from Montoya's ME/CFS patients, but it was Lipkin who made the discovery of a possible retrovirus in these blood samples. So Lipkin's work is the only line of current research into a possible retroviral etiology of ME/CFS (apart from the Grossberg JHK retrovirus work, which is moving at snail's pace).
Given the XMRV fiasco, Lipkin is understandably being cautions about this finding, as I guess he does not want to create another emotional rollercoaster ride of raising false hopes among ME/CFS patients.
I guess most ME/CFS patients are very grateful for researchers like Lipkin, who stand up for ME/CFS and who clearly state that ME/CFS is a real biological disease, most likely linked to pathogens, and do this in the face of all the nonsense and pseudoscience propagated by the biopsychosocial so-called researchers .
What "history of bullshitting" are you referring to? I am not aware of this.
What about his bornavirus research in the 1990s as evidence of his commitment to furthering ME/CFS research?
As it turned out, Lipkin found the bornavirus was not linked to ME/CFS. But it could have been, and the fact he performed this research does not really line up with this notion he did nothing to help.
Odd that these authors don't even mention the issue of contamination with XMRV testing. Even the 2009 XMRV prostate cancer link study was retracted by its authors, on the grounds that contamination was the likely cause of their results.
With what we now know about contamination issues when testing for XMRV, you'd think that these Iranian authors would have addressed this concern, and would have explained what steps they took to try to avoid this problem. But if you read the full paper, they don't mention the contamination issues, even though they talk about XMRV in the context of ME/CFS and prostate cancer.
We know how XMRV was created: from Wikipedia:
So XMRV did not exist before the 1990s, and thus this virus could not be the cause ME/CFS, a disease which has been around for decades before XMRV was created.
Lipkin used blood samples taken from Montoya's ME/CFS patients, but it was Lipkin who made the discovery of a possible retrovirus in these blood samples. So Lipkin's work is the only line of current research into a possible retroviral etiology of ME/CFS (apart from the Grossberg JHK retrovirus work, which is moving at snail's pace).
Given the XMRV fiasco, Lipkin is understandably being cautions about this finding, as I guess he does not want to create another emotional rollercoaster ride of raising false hopes among ME/CFS patients.
I guess most ME/CFS patients are very grateful for researchers like Lipkin, who stand up for ME/CFS and who clearly state that ME/CFS is a real biological disease, most likely linked to pathogens, and do this in the face of all the nonsense and pseudoscience propagated by the biopsychosocial so-called researchers .
What "history of bullshitting" are you referring to? I am not aware of this.
What about his bornavirus research in the 1990s as evidence of his commitment to furthering ME/CFS research?
As it turned out, Lipkin found the bornavirus was not linked to ME/CFS. But it could have been, and the fact he performed this research does not really line up with this notion he did nothing to help.
Odd that these authors don't even mention the issue of contamination with XMRV testing. Even the 2009 XMRV prostate cancer link study was retracted by its authors, on the grounds that contamination was the likely cause of their results.
With what we now know about contamination issues when testing for XMRV, you'd think that these Iranian authors would have addressed this concern, and would have explained what steps they took to try to avoid this problem. But if you read the full paper, they don't mention the contamination issues, even though they talk about XMRV in the context of ME/CFS and prostate cancer.
We know how XMRV was created: from Wikipedia:
So XMRV did not exist before the 1990s, and thus this virus could not be the cause ME/CFS, a disease which has been around for decades before XMRV was created.
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