behavioral sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New
York. He is the author of The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic
Syndromes which he purports to examine the link between mental illness
and physical syndromes that lack organic disease explanations,
including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, premenstrual
dysphoria, irritable bowel, and Gulf War illness.
TUESDAY, 3 JANUARY 2012
XMRV science CFS /ME
From Phil Parker /Lightening Process Blog
It's sad to see that the original XMRV study has now been retracted by
the editors of Science because of the concerns about being unable to
replicate the findings. The more we know about ME/CFS the more chance
there is of helping people to recover from it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16306646
It reminds me of Manu's important quote about CFS ME "more than any
other issue in contemporary medicine, CFS reflects the unresolved
conflict between the mechanistic and biophysical construct of illness"
It seems to me that looking for the ultimate and only cause of CFS ME
is looking at this complex illness through the wrong end of the
telescope; as the more I learn about it the more I think it's an
illness that will be best understood by considering the whole person
and their whole physiology rather focusing on discrete physical
systems or microscopic organisms.
http://officiallightningprocess.blogspot.com/2012/01/xmrv-science-cfs-me.html
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