steven novella's article on CCSVI
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 7:30 am
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/up ... sclerosis/
Any thoughts? We are an echo chamber of denial and belief and that is why doctors, academics, scientists, and science communicators should engage with social media communities? The welcome mat is out for all comers.
Tooth fairy science? He had a valid point, about the need to establish foundational research before moving on to subsidiary concerns, but bringing in the tooth fairy comes across as mocking.
CCSVI angioplasty on MS patients is unethical and should completely stop? My own experience with CCSVI treatment was tremendously positive. I don't want that denied to anyone. It depends on what is being treated. If MS is being treated, then angioplasty is an unproven treatment, but if impaired blood flow is being treated, then angioplasty is a very validated treatment with 30 years positive history. So once again CCSVI needs establishment as its own entity, with its own symptoms, that may overlap with some MS symptoms but which are a syndrome of its own that is treatable through angioplasty. More foundational research on CCSVI syndrome, please, leaving MS out of it, looking at it with the view that MS is a possible sequellae of CCSVI that is itself a subsidiary concern, albeit one of great importance.
Any thoughts? We are an echo chamber of denial and belief and that is why doctors, academics, scientists, and science communicators should engage with social media communities? The welcome mat is out for all comers.
Tooth fairy science? He had a valid point, about the need to establish foundational research before moving on to subsidiary concerns, but bringing in the tooth fairy comes across as mocking.
CCSVI angioplasty on MS patients is unethical and should completely stop? My own experience with CCSVI treatment was tremendously positive. I don't want that denied to anyone. It depends on what is being treated. If MS is being treated, then angioplasty is an unproven treatment, but if impaired blood flow is being treated, then angioplasty is a very validated treatment with 30 years positive history. So once again CCSVI needs establishment as its own entity, with its own symptoms, that may overlap with some MS symptoms but which are a syndrome of its own that is treatable through angioplasty. More foundational research on CCSVI syndrome, please, leaving MS out of it, looking at it with the view that MS is a possible sequellae of CCSVI that is itself a subsidiary concern, albeit one of great importance.