Shakespeare: "TIS IS TIME's PLAGUE, WHEN THE MADMEN LEAD THE BLIND." -- S. L. Hauser & THE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST OF NEUROLOGISTS

QUOTE FROM THE EDITORS of THE ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY on CONFLICTS OF INTEREST:

Managing Conflicting Interests in Medical Journal Publishing By AdamF.Stewart, S. Claiborne Johnston, M.D., Ph.D., and Stephen L. Hauser,M.D.December 17, 2008 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=14230

"As editors, our most inviolable charge is to ensure that the content of our journal is of the highest possible quality, that we always operate in the public's best interest, and that we never give readers cause to question our independence. Conflicts of interest can appear in many forms, both obvious and subtle. Only by recognizing that conflicts of interest will always exist, that human beings are fallible, and that scientific inquiry is never free from potential bias can we make certain that such conflicts are recognized and managed in aconsistent manner and under the full light of disclosure."

RESPONSE:

Dear Dr. Hauser, Editor of the Annals of Neurology--

Your publication has rather quickly published two studies which claim to replicate the research of Dr. Paolo Zamboni and his discovery of CCSVI. Both studies rendered negative results and received much coverage in the lay press.Yet neither research group contacted Dr. Zamboni regarding his specifictesting protocol, nor attempted to utilize the same procedural process in diagnosing CCSVI. The scanning methods and diagnostic criteria employed were different.

We question your independence.

As interested parties-- those actually suffering from MS and the caretakers who love them-- we demand that you immediately

1. PUBLISH some of the many the rebuttals which have been submitted to your journal on the Sundstrom and Doepp studies.

2. DISCLOSE your personal bias towards maintaining MS as an immunological disease.

3. INVITE vascular doctors to publish their findings regarding the correlation of CCSVI and MS.

4. WORK with the hundreds of doctors that are identifying CCSVI in MS patients around the globe.

Only with this transparency can you prove to the world that you are indeed free from bias. We await your response.

CCSVI in Multiple Sclerosis, 13. August 2010 - Source: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=423181357210&id=110796282297&ref=mf