Yes a very interesting "dynamic" now that most people have access to the Internet and how information can travel very quickly within concerned groups (in this case MS sufferers).

The Canadian MS Society had to do an about face when they were confronted by all of the media and public pressure to follow up on the Italian research. At first they were very dismissive then they had to back off. As posted on the linked website yesterday, the Canadian MS Society has now agreed to fund research in Canada to test the procedure.

In one of the comment sections of the Globe & Mail article, someone was comparing this to the orthodoxy about the cause of stomach ulcers. They were commonly though (by all the top researchers) to be caused by stress etc. Then an Australian doctor (not even a "specialist", what was he thinking ) proposed that ulcers might be caused by a bacteria instead. Boy did he get sh*t on for that idea. Well, we all know the end to that story.