For all those that are excited about this test let me bring you some reality. I have spent some time today with other researchers at JH. I have heard some interesting comments, which I think are universal to all large institutions. First of all I state again that a test that is 40+% effective at finding something is useless in the overall scheme of things. Ditto one that costs so much that insurance companies won't pay for. You have to remember this was done in a lab with a budget and equipment that enables them to do this. (I won't repeat here what others said at JH that was negative about this whole thing to protect their wiliness to talk openly with me, but there was plenty of that.) My response to all the negatives was, if it is so weak, why is this making so much news?

JH's development/fundraising department and individual researchers live off donations and grants. You don't publish you perish as a researcher or as an institution. As it gets more competitive to get this money, you have to position your institution as someone who is on the cutting edge (whether that is a reality in any given study or not). Jump in the institution

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.