Protest: Dr. McClure appointed a position on NIH CFS Grant committee

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A New Development:  Dr. Myra McClure, Retrovirologist from the UK has been

appointed a position on the NIH Committee that approves grants that fund ME/CFS

Research.  In case you are not aware of the history, Dr. McClure has been

behind the studies that do not find XMRV while using faulty methodology.  Here

is our chance to voice our disapproval...Please email your objections to the

people listed below!

Autism Parents:  If we help the CFS Community win their war it will help us win

ours!

http://www.cfscentral.com/2011/02/mission-possible.html

MISSION POSSIBLE:

Ousting Dr. Myra McClure from the 

NIH Committee to Approve ME/CFS Grants

Here is a excellent protest letter written by ME/CFS patient on

the occasion of the appointment of Dr. Myra McClure to the Center for Scientific

Review Special Emphasis Panel, which approves National Institutes of Health

grants for ME/CFS.  has granted permission for patients to copy and

paste the letter or any part of it and send to anyone who can make a difference.

Myra McClure, Ph.D. has been appointed to membership on the Center for

Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel, ZRG1 CFSH80 2/22/2011-2/23/2011

meeting. I protest this appointment for the following reasons:

 

1)  Dr. McClure is not a United States citizen.  Why should a United Kingdom

resident be deciding which applicants receive research grants in the United

States?  In addition to questions of legality which arise from this, there are

further questions of expense, since Dr. McClure's travel expenses will, of

necessity, be higher than those of a United States resident.

2)  Dr. McClure has publicly stated that she has no interest in research in the

area of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:  “Nothing on God’s Earth could persuade

me to do more research on CFS.â€

Source is this article.

3)  Dr. McClure has publicly stated that she is biased as to the study of the

XMRV retrovirus, which is an active area of research in the area of  Chronic

Fatigue Syndrome.

Professor McClure was a co-author of the paper published in Plos One in January

2010 titled, “Failure to Detect the Novel Retrovirus XMRV in Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome.†As the paper’s name suggests, this study found no evidence of

XMRV or MLV in CFS patients or controls. This study can be found here.

Professor McClure has publicly stated on many occasions that there is a high

possibility that the XMRV/MLV related virus findings being implicated in CFS are

a consequence of contamination.

Source is this article.

 

I ask that Dr. McClure be removed from this committee and that a qualified

retrovirologist who is a resident of the United States be appointed instead.

Here is the list of email addresses kindly provided by Leela Play.

kathleen.sebelius@...

francis.collins@...

dennis.mangan@...

toni.scarpa@...

hoshawb@...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

President Obama's Science Advisor, Holdren, at AskDrH@...

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