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http://kirstyduncan.liberal.ca/blog/let ... -research/

She has much more to say, and it is all well said.
Dr. Rubin has a conflict of interest and should be removed from the CIHR expert working group to study CCSVI.

I think she did well also to emphasize appearances. The mere fact of his name being listed as one of the authors of a document with such a title is enough to ruin the appearance of his impartiality. That much is cut-and-dried. What concerns me more is the role of such an insider and obviously biased opinion, in the decisions made by the FDA.

That such a document is the basis for the FDA's involvement in shutting down legitimate research, with safe progress having been made for such a long time, smells to high heaven of some kind of influence-manipulation. If drug companies are involved, they also were the source of many such conflicts on the CIHR, which has done a flip-flop on research into CCSVI. He also managed to get himself on the Ontario panel assessing follow-up treatment.

Wasn't one of the CIHR panelists said to be lobbying for a major drug company at the time of the CIHR's statements that no CCSVI research should occur? The appearance seems to me to be: an attempt to sway government action in Canada, followed by a more successful effort with the US Agency, by people who were beholden to drug companies.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
Bruce Cockburn

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I fear there is more douche-baggery on the horizon before this all settles down.

tilt

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So the CCSVI conspiracy theories are still alive and well I see. Maybe a Senator McCarthy like figure will step forward and weed out these medical infiltrators!!!!! Glad everyone is still kicking.

he isn't the only one with a conflict of interest

http://www.facebook.com/notes/ccsvi-in- ... 1016387210

Bringing Joe McCarthy into this is an insult. He was an alcoholic semi-literate, who was drummed out of the US Senate for ruining many careers with his televised Communist witch-hunt. I was indirectly one of his victims.

Coincidentally, now I may be a victim of the paper that some people 'have here in their hands'. I consider that the approach of some powerful individuals to the science of CCSVI has been just another witch-hunt, or at least a feeble attempt at one, using the same tired excuses for arguments over and over. He is not still kicking. We are.

The trouble with both witch-hunts, has been the attempts to ruin careers, by ignorant people.

Dr. Duncan is a scientist and University teacher, besides being a Member of the Parliament of Canada. I will not reiterate her recent contributions to the science on this subject. Her Subcommittee in that Parliament had as witnesses Dr. Baudet, Dr. Zamboni, Dr. Simka, and Dr. MacDonald, as well as the "MS" Society. I'm sure she would have even heard from Dr. Freedman if he had expressed interest. Comparing her work to the House Un-American Activities Committee of the nineteen-fifties is just plain ridiculous.

What was the title of Joe MacCarthy's biography? I think the over-zealous opponents of the CCSVI procedure have enough rope.

I can picture Dr. Rubin et al, at the gates of heaven, in committee deciding that Pasteur, Fleming, and Salk must go 'Down' to the 'Other Place'.

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"Try - Just A Little Bit Harder" - Janis Joplin
CCSVI procedure Albany Aug 2010
'_MS' is over - if you want it
Patients sans/without patience

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"Try - Just A Little Bit Harder" - Janis Joplin
CCSVI procedure Albany Aug 2010
'_MS' is over - if you want it
Patients sans/without patience

Amazing...

that just hurts the brain.
good find, 1eye

The appointment (of Bernard Prigent) seems to have been well-timed. It's as if they had prior knowledge of a certain upcoming TV broadcast about Dr. Paulo Zamboni, by CTV, the following month. A billion dollars is a pretty good budget, but I guess it can buy a lot of hocus-pocus.

One year previously, the Conservatives had just taken power in Canada.

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Un-fucking-believable.

tilt

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My before and after CCSVI treatment video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhosV4_DvWw
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They clearly need a new rule that requires a report every time he mumbles something under his breath to himself.

I wonder if he has any contracts with the FDA? Maybe they are paying him too, for lobbying the CIHR.

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This was easy to find. It was pointed to by Google, but originally from Cheerleader:

Click for her post...

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Reading through some of what was written as far back as 2010, I see this is just more of the same. Since the combined incomes of all the "MS" patients in the world is not equal to the spending and corrupting power of the large drug dealers, who have billions of our tax dollars similarly at their disposal, this is an effort doomed to be obfuscated and obstructed for the foreseeable future. Two years have not changed a thing in Canada, and now the US is similarly hamstrung.

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"Try - Just A Little Bit Harder" - Janis Joplin
CCSVI procedure Albany Aug 2010
'_MS' is over - if you want it
Patients sans/without patience