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@healthforall You speak from my heart. I am really touched :emoji_cry: I heard a talk of a Professor who analyses how the "western" system works. And he concluded: Realistically, if one looks at history and how our world is today, one would have to despair. All that we have is hope. That...

I'll try that in a "small circle", but I'm not sure whether the forum I think about will be open. They are pretty "pro psycho stuff", even in the ME subforum. I was also thinking about something "bigger", like writing to officials. This will need some pre-organization.

Hi @Esther12, thanks :) Maybe NONE?! Okay, more realistic: almost none in Germany. Just my impression. All I learned was from an English forum. Papers are in English. I shall search for German material.

@Esther12 Is there anything one can do actively? I came across people in a German ME forum who didn't know what PACE is :jawdrop: If I look to UK (or even US) I get a bit sad because there is so much going on there. (A happy sad, because I am happy for you and sad for me :) )I don't know how...

Hi @Jonathan Edwards, Nah, give up science? But thanks for clarifying. I wondered about the reviewers "in my time". Those who write the papers often work for long times in that field, about a certain topic. Reviewers are also frome the same field, but often work on completely different...

Hi @Esther12, thanks! I thought about it, and I discussed this also with a Chemist (who is no expert in this area, but saw electrophoresis more often than I did). I wasn't sure with the scales in the pictures and possible data sets. He told me the data set is the picture itself, there's nothing...

Another question: I read somewhere (don't know where anymore :( ) that it is common to "send" virus DNA/RNA, that shall be used for vaccines, through mouse cells (e.g. brain cells?). Is this correct? If so, shouldn't it be quite common to find any virus-mouse rests in the human?

I totally agree! I'm you, some years later ;) (I hope you don't misunderstand)

Dear @Esther12 Again so many thanks, most of all for your patience :) The pictures do look similar, that was the first thing I thought. The next was: What actually is shown? :) It is not easy to proove something is equal. My questions that popped up: Is the picture really identical? In my...

That's what I miss - evidence. There are several hints, several indications, you supplied much information (thanks!) - so I can build an opinion. But I would like to know how IT IS. At this point it is not possible, I think. :(

What I wondered about, too - concerning the question "infectious agent: yes or no?" is the history of ME. One of the earliest cluster was in the 30s, if I recall correctly, in a hospital. Hospital staff was vaccined with a "new" polio vaccine. The staff got sick with ME. There was a lawsuit and...

"Using changes in sequence" - what is that? That's actually what I meant - it seems all research in this direction was dropped. But I wonder, with this information, how do we know earlier findings were real and not contaminations? What about publications today? Maybe virologists' attention to...

What infection is that?

@Valentijn: Thanks a lot for the publication link!!!

This is a very good question indeed.

Unfortunately, negative results aren't very welcome in science. (Our professor always said: "No negative results. These are not publishabIe.") I think this is stupid. This may contribute to experiments being repeated until they are "positive" and to scientists beinge fixed on a special outcome...

When I read @Jonathan Edwards' "girlie sytle" post I 'painted' a short video in my mind. I really had to laugh. Plus the unicorn, and then a pink one. Because, when I read that leaflet, especially those narcisstic 'poems', and the poster and saw those pictures, I felt like "what a togetherness...

This is a huge problem. It's one thing I read that stuff and think: "Well, okay", it's another if a scientist in this field has the problem to say whether it's substantiated or not. My diploma thesis had its basis in a paper by a "big name" mathematician. My job was to implement it and develop...

At first sight that sounds a little like "I don't want to go down like that one". Which would actually mean that the treatment of Mikovits (jail) chaised others off. Lipkin is not looked upon as a fraud scientist - why would he back off? He could be confident of his findings, unless he feared he...

Ah, that is interesting. Do you/Does anybody know more about that? Does anybody know whether it was explained one day that retroviral finding etc. "have panned out", as Lipkin assumed? Edit: Ah, I misread Lipkin's quote. He said, "this is NOT going to pan out".