It’s not a study. It’s an opinion piece. And though IANAS, even I appreciate that publishing your ideas before you’ve even attempted to test them yourself is barely one step up from YouTube videos on the scale of Why Should Anyone Else Care.
Maybe someone in the field can pitch in, but I also saw this sentence in the article: "I have previously hypothesised that all human chronic autoimmune diseases are caused by Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infection of autoreactive B cells,"
So it seems he's been hovering around the EBV hypothesis for longer than that so I am also curious if there was any real progress and whether this is something the medical research community is treating seriously.
This is why we developed the scientific method, to act as a filter for such human follies. That the author is still hypothesizing instead of rolling up his sleeves and doing the actual work to DISprove his own ideas speaks volumes.
Or, to put it another way: it is not sufficient merely to gird oneself in the mantle of Marshall and Warren; one must also swallow the H Pylori and serve their hard time on the shitter.
EBV has been linked to several autoimmune illnesses in recent years, so yes it’s treated seriously by those who have stayed abreast of that research. (It’s also been linked to certain cancers previously.) But as for whether it causes all human autoimmune illnesses, that seems a bit of a stretch. I don’t think you’d find many believing that. (Lots of infections can cause autoimmunity. The neurological damage / and long term post infection chronic fatigue that some COVID patients are suffering for example may likely be autoimmune related.)
Well, they are developing a vaccine, and any new findings about diseases linked to EBV would raise the value of the vaccine. I think it's safe to say that the medical community is indeed very interested in this.
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