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That's so. But to validate the concept of individualisation it is pretty neat.

A cunning ruse, @Keela Too .

It used to be called palmistry.

Yes, it is intriguing @Esther12. I have been having a discussion on HealthWatch (where a lot of people have worked to dislodge homeopathy from the NHS). Just this morning it came to me that the comment (source confidential but maybe now found in any BACME type mag), that it didn't really matter...

But this would be indirect - detecting supposedly specific phage DNA patterns. And all you need is some leeway in the primers and overcooking and you have false positives, if my experience is anything to go by. I agree with Milo that a link up with Red Labs is not encouraging.

Why do the same names and the same organisations keep reappearing in this story and in such paradoxical ways? (A rhetorical question.)

This reads like a student essay assignment. (In fact the assignment is likely to have been given to the senior author who passed it down to a fresh junior wanting publications.) It is devoid of any intelligent analysis and nobody has proof read the English properly. Complete drivel again I am...

I find Dr McFarlane's approach a bit scattershot and he obviously has his own agenda but I was having a conversation with Nick Ross on another forum couple of days ago and I find the connections suggested in this blog interesting!

Floaters can be seen on standard slit lamp examination. I have had them for decades according to my ophthalmologists and opticians.

I find this strangely arm's-length sentence intriguing: This was a classic demonstration of the importance of transparency: critics of the study (of whom there are many) had to make a Freedom of Information request and wait years to see the data — at which point they argued that their...

There is never any room for 'benefit of the doubt' in science. So much work in science is flawed by poor methodology and over enthusiasm. Unless you assume that work may be hyped before you read you will find yourself taken in by all sorts of empty stuff. But generally it is not too difficult...

So where are the data please, mate? I think you have to be a bit thick to write that sentence.

It will only ramp up if people give it attention - so why give it exposure?

The Benedetti article is interesting in that it is clear that Benedetti himself would like to make use of placebos. One might say that he can hardly complain if the quacks want to as well! I think the parallel with the BPS people, who also feel that it is OK for them to make use of the placebo...

I cannot see any point in following empty marketing like this. When there is some science I will take a look.

@Hutan, It would take a few thousand words to fully explain the problem here. But in simple terms human tissues are solids. Hydrostatic pressures are properties of liquids. If you try to ascribe hydrostatic pressures to solids you have to be very very careful and know exactly what you are doing...

The quoted abstract illustrates well how poorly immunologists understand their own terminology (and also the pathology of synovium, which at one time was my special expertise). A dysregulated inflammatory response is not' autoimmune' unless there is actual immune reactivity to self, as there is...

Read my paper with Jo Cambridge in Immunology 1999! B cells operate on a basis of random generation of antibody types with a chain reaction positive feedback loop for mass production when needed. To explain autoimmunity you need to find a way to trick the chain reaction into activating for self...

I had not actually read the article but it is the tired old old story I was familiar with from my student days which my 1999 article in Immunology with Jo Cambridge should have finally put to bed. There is not a scrap of evidence for it. Rather than being at the cutting edge of immunology people...

Let me try a slightly different abstract. Introduction: Viruses might be linked to autoimmunity. Methods: So we allowed at least 193,668,196 people (so far) to get infected with a virus and waited to see if there was a flush of autoimmune disease. Results: none seemed to turn up. Conclusion...