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Wessely vergelijkt

mensen met MCS

met kluizenaars,

reactie Pall

door JRSM geweigerd.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Nadat gebruik van een olifanten-en-zebra's-metafoor met betrekking tot "CVS"-patiënten,

gaat Sir Simon Wessely zelfs nog een stapje verder met betrekking tot MCS-patiënten.

 

Hij vergelijkt deze met kluizenaars die zich terugtrekken uit onvrede met de maatschappij, de

dwang om te vluchten, innerlijke strijd en/of het gevoel tegen het establishment te moeten vechten.

 

En dat noemen ze vandaag de dag wetenschap. Je moet er maar opkomen.

 

Overigens, ten aanzien van de laatste reden zou je MCS-patiënten nog gelijk kunnen geven ook,

aangezien prof. Wessely en het Royal Society of Medicine, dat Wessely c.s. telkens een platform biedt,

deel uitmaakt van het medische establishment dat mensen met ME, CVS, MCS etc. belachelijk maakt.

 

Onderstaande reactie van dr. Martin Pall werd door de JRSM-redactie voor publicatie afgewezen.

 

 


 

De reactie van Pall die door de JRSM afgewezen werd:

 

 

Taking refuge from modernity: 21st century travesty?

 

Wessely and colleagues argue that multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) and electromagnetic field (EMF) hypersensitivity (EHS) are simply contemporary ways that allow people to isolate themselves from society, arguing that these are not true sensitivities to chemicals or EMFs 1.

 

I was honored to be chosen to write an authoritative review on MCS, by three eminent toxicologists (the editors 2). It was clear that they thought that MCS was a disease of toxic exposure. Why else ask for such a paper?

 

Among the papers that convincingly show that [...] are studies of Schnakenberg 3,4, showing that four polymorphic genes involved in the metabolism of chemicals implicated in MCS had highly significant roles in determining MCS susceptibility (p<10-15 for all four occurring by chance!).

 

These followed studies by McKeown-Eyssen, implicating three such chemical metabolism genes and by Haley implicating one such gene. In all, seven such genes were implicated, all having roles in chemical metabolism.

 

How can all this be true if chemicals have nothing to do with MCS? Wessely has no answers1.

 

The seven classes of MCS-implicated chemicals act to produce elevated NMDA activity 2. Six other types of evidence suggest NMDA elevation has roles in MCS 2,5; one of these involves two genetic polymorphism studies, both showing that alleles of the CCK-B receptor gene that produce an elevated NMDA response are associated with increased MCS susceptibility.

 

There are many other studies showing real physiology in MCS, including 25 studies on objectively measurable changes in response to chemical exposure, where MCS patients differ from normals. 24 of these are completely incompatible with psychological interpretations 2. Many human studies and 38 animal model studies show physiological changes with apparent causal roles 2.

 

Shouldn’t Wessely inform readers of the vast evidence that argues against his hypothesis?

 

 

Reference 2 is 50 pages, containing 427 citations.

Letters limited to 300 words, 5 citations.

 

Martin L. Pall,

Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences,

Washington State University,

 

 

References

  1. Boyd I, Rubin GJ, Wessely S.
  2. Taking refuge from modernity: 21st century hermits.

    J R Soc Med 2012:105:523-529.

  3. Pall ML. Multiple chemical sensitivity: toxicological questions and mechanisms.
  4. In: Bryan Ballantyne, Timothy C. Marrs, Tore Syversen, editors.

    General and Applied Toxicology, 3rd Edition.

    London: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2009 p. 2303-2352.

  5. Schnakenberg E, Fabig KR, Stanula M, et al.
  6. A cross-sectional study of self-reported chemical-related sensitivity is associated with gene variants of drug metabolizing enzymes.

    Environ Health 2007;6:6 .

  7. Müller KE, Schnakenberg E.
  8. Die Bedeutung de Glukuronidierung bei unweltmedizinischen Erkrankungen am Beirspeil der UDP-Glukuronosyltransferase 1A1.

    Umwelt-Medizin-Gesellschaft 2008;21:295-300.

  9. Pall ML.
  10. NMDA sensitization and stimulation by peroxynitrite, nitric oxide and organic solvents as the mechanism of chemical sensitivity in multiple chemical sensitivity.

    FASEB J 2002;16:1407-1417.

 

 


 

 

Taking refuge from modernity: 21st century hermits

J R Soc Med. 2012 Dec;105(12):523-9. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2012.120060.

Boyd I, Rubin G, Wessely S.

 

 

Summary

 

Idiopathic environmental intolerances,

such as 'multiple chemical sensitivity' and 'electrosensitivity,'

can drastically affect the quality of life of those affected.

 

A proportion of severely affected patients remove themselves from modern society,

to live in isolation away from the purported causal agent of their ill health.

 

This is not a new phenomenon;

reports of hermits extend back to the 3rd century AD.

 

We conducted a literature review of case reports relating to

ancient hermits and modern day reclusion resulting from idiopathic environmental intolerance,

in order to explore whether there are similarities between these two groups and

whether the symptoms of these 'illnesses of modernity'

are simply a present-day way of reaching the end-point of reclusion.

 

Whilst there were some differences between the cases,

recurring themes in ancient and modern cases included:

dissatisfaction with society,

a compulsion to flee,

reports of a constant struggle and

a feeling of fighting against the establishment.

 

The similarities which exist between the modern-day cases and the historical hermits

may provide some insight into the extreme behaviours exhibited by this population.

 

The desire to retreat from society in order to escape from harm

has existed for many centuries, but in different guises.

 

 

PMID: 23288087

 

 

http://jrsm.rsmjournals.com/content/105/12/523.abstract