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Originally Posted by flamesfever
I believe this is just a token effort by the Government to appease the MS Community. They are moving at a snails pace by spending only a million dollars, and doing a 3 year observational study of those who have collectively spent many millions of dollars of their own money trying to get help.
I'll bet that the private sector comes up with the funds and initiative to conduct the trials necessary to confirm whether or not CCSVI is a key, conributing factor in MS...long before the Government do.
Then if the results are positive, you can bet the Government will jump all over it to claim credit for the results.
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you don't have a clue what your talking about. A $1 million, 3 year grant is a phenomenal amount of money for an epidemiological study. almost all significant medical research in North America is government funded. The private sector is responsible for maybe 5% of medical research funding; those research dollars will often have strings attached or ulterior motives beyond knowledge discovery