That's exactly why I posted it scorp! Frustration factor!
Of course we need to continue on in other ways and try to find effective therapies and understand MS any way that we can, but we always need to be mindful of the basics because that's where the only strong clues for MS incidence lie.
This thing actually could be a field of science in itself in that it's not just MS but a host of diseases that were unknown to our great grandparents but we in the "developed" world experience in high numbers.
MS itself doesn't specifically affect a huge number, but if you add up all of the diseases which began an alarming increase of incidence after the beginning of the 20th century it might be easier to determine the cause...or at least finding the cause(s) would be taken more seriously. Autism, allergies, asthma, the inflammatory/autoimmune diseases, multiple cancers were either rare or non existent per capita in the developed countries before they became developed and are still rare/non existent per capita in populations which remain undeveloped.
HUGE clue, which so far hasn't paid off
