Yes he could, but he would almost be contradicting his own paper
Yes, I agree with your point! You are right there!
I am a person who worries about things.
my point was that others might try to do something else to contradict the results; ie some other test the new author wants to offer as similar or otherwise equal when it is not. (worry, worry

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This was seen repeatedly in the CPn/MS research: somone like Sriram did research showing that using PCR, OMP and HSP60 he could demonstrate presence of CPn in MS brains in the majority of patients, then some other person came along showing that MS patients do not have CPn....by using serology. The two methods are not equal, but they were offered AS IF they were.
The upshot is that people/researchers/pharma who do not want to believe the new theory because it threatens their "world view" of what MS is, could reject the new idea as nonsense and go back to what they were doing.
That plays a role on these boards also. Everyone is forced to develop a point of view on which they will act and move forward. It is the only way to function and have some sense of feeling safe in this disease.
Papers and points of view that work with your accepted theory are seen as smart, correct and obviously well done. Other ideas seem not to be as well thought out, missing important detail and otherwise somehow foolish.
Once you form your view of what MS is, other points of view threaten your sense of safety; If I think MS is caused by (autoimmunity, CPn, gluten) and I have analyzed and examined this idea extensively and have taken action along those lines after finding it likely "correct" (entered a clinical trial with possible side effects, gone to lengths to get abx, have discarded all gluten, beans etc) and now I believe I feel better, I cautiously begin to allow myself to think I can have a life and feel a little safe. The experience of improvement seems to affirm what you thought after your extensive research, this thoery actually is "correct". Maybe I'll be OK, you allow yourself to have the formerly forbidden thought.
People end up becoming very dogmatic about their chosen theory, without even thinking about that and without that being their intention at all.
All of a sudden, this Zamboni guy comes along and we do not feel safe because if he's right, the steps I have taken will not "work" and I have somehow been deluding myself. Now I have to worry again that I might get worse when I was just thinking I was lucky and could stop worrying. This dynamic results in flame ups on the boards, bruised feelings and otherwise stratfies us into groups that believe this or that and makes friends of people in similar thought, enemies of those in other camps. And nobody means to be unkind or at all pushy; they are just trying to navigate the ugly waters called MS.
Jock Murray (posted by Lyon page 5 of this thread) pointed out that all these various ideas remain viable because of the lack of widely accepted research that clearly defines what MS actually is. He's right. All the ideas are viable none are off the table....yet.
I personally still believe MS is multifactorial, that is why there are so many different experiences of MSers here. But just because someone had X expereince does not mean that it proves or disproves anything about Zamboni's research, as far as I can tell it can be a co factor to every other idea out there.
Bottom line this SHOULD be easy to show. Schelling has some of Zamboni's doppler findings on his site...........
http://www.ms-info.net/evo/msmanu/984.htm
look at the videos and ask yourself if you think this is just a vague idea or if there is something there people, particularly trained people in the field, can see.
I know what I think....
And yes, it makes me feel safer cause none of the other stuff has worked for me, but I'm not ready to give up (even though I walk with a rollator now) because I still have one fully funcitonal arm and leg; I want to keep them.
