An excellent example of a scientist considering "Mad Cow" type diseases can be found in the following interview:
http://www.open2.net/truthwillout/CJD/article/cjd_brown.htm
Some passages that are especially good:
QUOTE: ...I don't believe that vCJD is caused by BSE. There is good evidence that these diseases are very similar, but it is based on research involving infecting mice with extracts carrying the BSE agent or the vCJD agent and then looking at pathology in the mice. And this evidence suggests that the diseases are very similar, but doesn't actually prove one caused the other... Any evidence is based on a lot of circumstantial statements...
Unfortunately it's a very difficult thing to prove that BSE caused vCJD because you basically have to infect humans. Even if you could do that it wouldn't necessarily prove it, it would simply prove that you can infect humans with BSE. We would have to see once we had eradicated BSE that vCJD disappeared, and that's going to take 40 or 50 years, even if we eradicated BSE now... UNQUOTE.
Source: http://www.open2.net/truthwillout/CJD/article/cjd_brown.htm
This scientist, David Brown, has a view of this kind of "disease" that is consistent with the evidence when viewed as a whole:
QUOTE: Prion diseases include the notorious Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and the human diseases vCJD, sporadic CJD and Fatal Familial Insomnia. However, despite the concern about these disease the prion protein is a harmless neuronal protein expressed in all vertebrates. Our group is concerned with the normal function of this protein. The prion protein is a copper binding protein which appears to be involved in cellular resistance to oxidative stress. Only when the protein is converted to an abnormal isoform is it capable of inducing neuronal death... UNQUOTE.
Source: http://www.bath.ac.uk/bio-sci/brown.htm |
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