So, a few weeks into 2019, where do we think we are with M.E.? Are we making progress at last? Or are things very different from how they seem?
As far as I can tell, there has certainly been a positive feeling in the air ever since the helpful American
IOM and
P2P reports back in 2015 – and research in the U.S. does seem to be making progress these days, albeit with only a fraction of the funds which the
NIH teasingly suggests should be coming our way.
Yet there is still a big question mark over things. Are we – and our wonderful biomedical researchers in the US – being hoodwinked? Are we being strung along and fooled into expecting funding that will never come? I don’t have the expertise to know for sure – but fortunately there are experienced bloggers such as
Erica Verrillo and
Jennie Spotila over there who can hold the authorities to account over this.