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The announcement today (28 September 2012) that Pan-Canadian CCSVI clinical trials will be headed up by Anthony Traboulsee confirms that Leona Aglukkaq and Alain Beaudet have a sense of humour because, really, this has to be a joke. The winner of the CIHR “CCSVI Sweepstakes” is none other than an MS neurologist who has opposed CCSVI from the beginning.
This has to be a joke …
Two provinces and 100 participants does not constitute a Pan-Canadian clinical trial. Didn’t the MS neurologists criticize Dr. Zamboni for having only 65 participants in his study?
Safety and efficacy studies have already been done by reputable researchers and published in peer reviewed journals so why re-invent the wheel?
MS neurologists, aided and abetted by the MS Society of Canada and CIHR, have done everything they can to discredit Dr. Paolo Zamboni and CCSVI, to delay clinical trials, to bar CCSVI treatment in Canada and to make Canadians with MS appear to be wild-eyed desperados (or cultists if you prefer) who will believe anything especially if it is in the media.
This has to be a joke …
There is no mention in today’s announcement of providing follow-up care for Canadians who have been treated for CCSVI outside Canada.
There is no mention of where the IR’s who will perform the procedures in the clinical trials have been trained or who trained them.
There is no mention of how clinical improvement will be measured or by whom.
There is no mention of the participation of vascular specialists especially those with some experience in treating CCSVI, like Dr. Sandy McDonald.
This has to be a joke …
The timing of today’s announcement is not a coincidence. The Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology will begin consideration of Jane Cordy’s Bill; S-204 next week and Leona needs to kill this bill just as she and the CMA killed Bill C-280.
Yes, this has to be a joke. Leona and Alain have quite a sense of humour don’t they? Imagine how many belly laughs they will enjoy knowing that they have handed the MS neurologists a golden opportunity for one of their own to finally kill CCSVI.
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