Gerard, I've only just seen this now. I find myself particularly unwilling to get into a second debate this week. However, just because one author on a study has made shown a bias does not mean that all of them do. You cannot make that assumption. How many production teams have I worked on on which one of my team members has been an as$. Doesn't mean everyone on the team is an as$ and it certainly does not mean the the show being produced is going to be any less artistically valid. It just means that one teammate is an as$. Same with any research study. I rather doubt that everyone involved in a study believes exactly the same things in the same way. That would be counter to any good scientific research. It is the differences that create a more rich and thorough piece of research.
Again, you can no more colour the other authors of the study with the same paint because of the comments of one of them than you can make the statement that all of Dr. Enbringer's research is slanted because he believes the kleb p. related pathology in AS. And that is an easy assumption to make, but to do so is to invalidate every piece of his research. I certainly do not have the hubris to do that, being a lowly pleb in the grand AS scheme of things.
We also know that any one of us here does have an agenda - that being what he or she believes in any given instance. It would be very easy to say that John only posts things that agree with Dr. Enbringer and Evelyn only posts things that disagree with Dr. Enbringer. It would be very easy, but it would be untrue and unfair.
The study that I posted states only that there was no link found in the family studies that were done - from sibling to sibling. It certainly wasn't negating the entire theory. However, the accusation has been made that the research was skewed against kleb because of [insert spurious excuse here]. But research is only as skewed as our own points of view are when it comes to studying and reading the results of the research. If you firmly believe that kleb is the root cause of AS, then you're going to doubt the research. If you believe that the root cause of AS has yet to be determined, you'll be more inclined to accept the research as one more piece of a rather large puzzle.
Anyway, enough for now.
Hugs,
