Again the research work the BMJ reports about MS is as useful as the
inconsequential report on midwives which appeared last week. These reports
must be valuable in that they affect conduct or they shouldn‘t be
published at all. We are now told that stress is likely to cause relapse,
but I seem to remember this was being taught in 1966. What stress is, if
it has a physical existence at all, and how the pharmacology operates to
exacerbate the condition remains obscure if it alters neurones and
oligodendrocytes. The heresy of an autoimmune aetiology still appears in
this account. Oh for some research which matters.
Rapid Response:
Inconsequential research
Again the research work the BMJ reports about MS is as useful as the
inconsequential report on midwives which appeared last week. These reports
must be valuable in that they affect conduct or they shouldn‘t be
published at all. We are now told that stress is likely to cause relapse,
but I seem to remember this was being taught in 1966. What stress is, if
it has a physical existence at all, and how the pharmacology operates to
exacerbate the condition remains obscure if it alters neurones and
oligodendrocytes. The heresy of an autoimmune aetiology still appears in
this account. Oh for some research which matters.
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