Find of the day by Christopher Alkenbrack

WE HAVE REASON TO QUESTION THE RESULTS.....WONDER WHY DR. CUTTER READ THE DATA THE WAY HE DID ?

HE HAS "INTERPRETED" DATA FOR EVERY COMPANY THAT MAKES MS MEDICATIONS.

Maybe this explains it - these are a list of his disclosures at the end of the study published in the Journal of Neurology :

Dr. Cutter has served on scientific advisory boards for and received funding for travel from Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Klein Buendel, Inc., Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Androclus Therapeutics, Inc., University of Illinois, Amgen, New York University, and Somnus Therapeutics, Inc.; receives royalties from thepublication of Evaluation of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (The McGraw Hill Companies, 1984); has received honoraria from GlaxoSmithKline, Biogen Idec, Novartis, Advanced Health Media Inc., EMD Serono, Inc., EDJ Associates, Inc., the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Marrow Donor Program, Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers; serves as a consultant to Peptimmune Inc., Aegis Creative Marketing, Novartis, National Industrial Sand Association, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd.; has served on independent data and safety monitoring committees for Antisense Therapeutics Limited, Sanofi-Aventis, Bayhill Pharmaceuticals, BioMSMedical Corp, Daiichi-Sankyo Co. Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, Genmab A/S,Medivation Inc., PTC Therapeutics Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Vivus Inc., NHLBI, NINDS, and NMSS; has received research support from ApopLogic Pharmaceuticals, LLC; receives research support from the NIH (NINDS 5U01NS042685-02 [PI]), NINDS U01 NS45719-01A1 [PI, Coordinating Center], NIAID contract no.

HHSN266200400068C [coinvestigator], NHLBI 5R01 HL06991-02

[PI, Coordinating Center], NIAID N01AI30025 [Director, Coordinat-

ing Center], NIDR 3R01DE016684-03S109 [coinvestigator], NHLBI

5P50HL084923-030001 [Director, Coordinating Center], NIDDK

1R01DK078826 [coinvestigator], NIAID P30AI27767 [Co-Director,

Biostatistics Core], NIDDK 1P30DK079337 [Director, Biostatistics

Core], and the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (Director

NARCOMS Data Center) and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society;

and serves as President of Pythagoras, Inc