Back in April 2010, Avis asked Dr. Zivadinov about the "testing difficulties" the team had during the BNAC CCSVI Phase I study in Buffalo. Dr. Zivadinov clearly said they had problems, and that this will be mentioned in the final published study, because the problems had an effect on the final results.
But as you know, for some reason the final version of the BNAC paper is missing this key point.
The Phase I study was recently published in April 2011. It was talked about at the Neuroland show in Hawaii, and picked up by the media around the globe. It doesn't mention that the CCSVI numbers would have been significantly different if the right equipment and measurting techniques were applied.
If anything, people were given the impression that the data was very accurate.
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BNAC Testing Difficulties Dr. Zivadinov - Toronto April 2010
"Thank you for the opportunity for us in this and answering this question because this is something that clearly we did not speak about until now and will be in our clearly peer reviewed paper when we will be published. But we believe strongly that the type of the machine you are using is very important for determining certain structures.
The deep cerebral structures are very difficult to determine, if not, with some specific technology that Dr. Zamboni actually developed and is now commercializing through a commercial company. And we believe that this is one of the reasons why our prevalence in certain--in this criteria was definitely lower than in Dr. Zamboni work.
We have some experience by using this new technology that has been developed in the meantime and we see substantially different results.
I also want to point out that the training and the reproducibility of scanner, scan tests in Doppler will be essential because you know that definitely may alter the prevalence of the disease, and that's why I strongly believe that only multitest will be able to show whether there is, you know, confident--certain confidence that the diagnosis is met."
- Dr. Zivadinov
Dr. Zivadinov - Toronto Neuro Convention April 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj1wFVLkn5c
Buffaloed: The anti-CCSVI Bias of the University of Buffalo Researchers and their Unsupported Interpretations:
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=210099172352923