Thank you for posting this. The whole MS/CCSVI controversy has really enraged me. Whether or not there turns out to be some benefit for some percentage of MS

Thank you for posting this. The whole MS/CCSVI controversy has really enraged me. Whether or not there turns out to be some benefit for some percentage of MS sufferers, the hype, conspiracy theories, and two-bit clinics all over the place offering this procedure have done real harm. People have stopped taking medicine that has been proven clinically to help, in order to have unproven surgery. It's easy to see why. None of the current medications cure the disease, or even stop its progression. They only slow down its progress. And they all have unpleasant side effects, and require injection (though an oral drug is becoming available soon). And even though five or ten thousand dollars (the surgery cost, when I looked it up awhile ago) may seem like a lot, the drugs seem to all cost (very) roughly twenty-five thousand dollars per year. But that just means that there's a ready population of desperate people to exploit. And that makes me angry.