XMRV -Dr. , Intellectual Property & Revenge

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A Sad Day for Patients

by Deckoff- MD

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The apparently concerted effort to deny patients

an answer or treatment for our disease continues.

Science Magazine published two negative papers

today, along with an Editoral Expression of

Concern, or EEC.

Dr. Mikovits was informed on Friday, before

Memorial Day weekend, though the second of the

two papers was accepted for publication on May

15.

The co-authors of Lombardi et al have

unanimously refused to retract.

Here is Dr. Mikovits' response to the EEC, link:

http://files.me.com/jdj88/keednw

Annette Whittemore's response, link:

http://files.me.com/jdj88/tnmi0f

and the response of the WPI's Clinical Advisory

Board, link: http://files.me.com/jdj88/hok3p2

sent to Science over the weekend.

The timing of the EEC seems " premature " , to put

it mildly, with Dr. Lipkin's and Dr. Maldarelli's

findings still pending. There is nothing new in

either paper that should have precipitated this.

I receive many questions about why Dr.

is no longer working with the WPI, which I have

generally tried not to answer, because I wasn't

there.

But, as of today, I think it safe to say that not

only is he not working with us, the people he is

collaborating with seem intent on destroying the

institute that bears his name.

I am in the middle of it, and it is unfathomable to

me. I have never met Dr. , but here is

my best guess, as the one following in the wake

of this attempt to destroy the institute.

It has to be all about intellectual property, and

revenge. Nothing else makes sense.

Why would he provide already tested specimens

to Konstance Knox, who has a vendetta against

the WPI?

Knox worked as a consultant for VIP Dx and left

under " difficult circumstances " related to her

business practices.

Science should have been aware of this history

and made a serious inquiry of it. They were

alerted to it, but proceeded to publish this

morning anyway.

Taking the sordid details out of it, the Knox paper

is yet another entirely negative paper where they

proved they couldn't find it in anyone.

Again, there was no real attempt to replicate

Lombardi et al, only the innuendo that it was

somehow disproved by this paper, by virtue of it

being who provided the specimens.

How could Science, a premier journal, publish such

shoddy work, sloppier than the Singh paper,

though with the same logical fallacy?

It can't be both a contaminant and not there at

the same time.

Which is it?

The totality of the evidence says neither.

Why is no one asking the real question? How is it

that VIP Dx finds approximately 4 out of 10

patients positive, not zero and not 100%? How do

you explain contaminating only some of the

specimens in the same run?

And why do all of these scientists feel compelled

to practice medicine without licenses?

When Konstance Knox gets sick from the

infectious contaminants in her lab, shall the

doctors remind her that she said to the press that

patients shouldn't have the right to try

antiretroviral drugs for the viruses that she is too

incompetent to find (or wasn't really trying to find

in the first place)?

Why would scientists who know better reach

obviously incorrect conclusions about their own

work?

Why would anyone want to make XMRV go away,

when there's so much smoke?

The money involved is enormous.

Did anyone notice that a few of the co-authors on

the Knox paper work for Abbott Diagnostics? Do

you think Abbott would like to own The Test?

It may be that the sequence diversity from patient

to patient is too large to detect by PCR for a

particular strain of HGRV (human gamma

retrovirus).

Replication competence probably involves

recombination events. It may be that it isn't even

a few viruses, but many. PCR only finds what it's

looking for. It is going to require rapid deep

sequencing. The science is up to that technology,

but it is still too expensive to use on the likes of

us.

They've sequenced the entire mitochondrial

genome of a Neanderthal. When will they take a

look at ours?

So if they make it go away, they can rediscover it

later, with enough sequence variation to call it

something else.

And while the vultures fight over the carrion, new

babies are born with it, teenagers are collapsing

with an incurable illness and old people are dying

prematurely, after decades of relentless suffering

without help.

Today is 600 days since Lombardi et al was

published. It is shameful.

Please express your outrage to Science.