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Stephen Reingold of the NMSS and Henry McFarland of the NIH have both dismissed Barnett and Prineas’ work on the grounds that the disease modifying therapies work. To dismiss valid experimental data because it is inconvenient to your fondly held theories is bad science, although not surprising. The autoimmune theory of multiple sclerosis is the bedrock of many researchers livelihoods, EAE is not so much a disease, more of an industry and anti-inflammatory treatments such as the interferons are multi-million dollar products.

Stephen Reingold of the NMSS and Henry McFarland of the NIH have both dismissed Barnett and Prineas’ work on the grounds that the disease modifying therapies work. To dismiss valid experimental data because it is inconvenient to your fondly held theories is bad science, although not surprising. The autoimmune theory of multiple sclerosis is the bedrock of many researchers livelihoods, EAE is not so much a disease, more of an industry and anti-inflammatory treatments such as the interferons are multi-million dollar products.