2024 Stanford MECFS meeting

Yeah, this is not good. It's about time we the community cut ties to these cranks.

Phair and Davis are interested in the Jak-Stat inhibitor that de Meirlier uses, Filgotinib. They think it can turn off innate immune reactions and therefore address some of the fundamental issues in me/cfs.

I admit I'm attracted to the idea that innate immunity is stuck on. It is plausible. Filgotinib has been available in Belgium for a few years now. it's not impossible that it's an effective treament for some people.

I do see a lot of complaints about de Meirlier's costs though. He's very expensive and if the drug doesn't work for you I can see you'd be furious. It doesn't follow, however, that the drug doesn't work simply because the doctor likes driving a Porsche!

Hearing what he has to say is a good idea. It's a shame we can't all hear it but I'm hopeful the assembled minds will be able to assess his claims fairly.
 
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For a bunch of reasons, I don’t really have any problem with the idea of a closed meeting.

I do sort of have a problem with them starting that the reason for this closed meeting is so that they can present “unpublished data”. Actually the reason you have science meetings is so that you can present data/results prior to publishing and hopefully get some feedback. Once your study is published in the literature then there is no reason to give a conference presentation because people can just read the paper.
 
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