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From: Max Burns <AlienHype@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:45:54 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:06:50 -0500
Subject: CFS & The Alien Abduction Scenario?


Max Burns
Researcher

Is there a connection between "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis"
(Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) & The Alien Abduction Scenario?

Investigator Max Burns
shares his thoughts and his initial findings.

Is there a connection between "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" or M.E
(Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and the alien abduction scenario?
That's quite a big question to ask in these days of ridicule
from those who seek to conceal the truth, whatever that truth
may be? "The truth is a three sided blade" - the truth,
according to the pro ETH people; the truth, according to the
hard line skeptic's; and the governmental bodies. Somewhere
inside all of this the truth may exist, but it all boils down to
one thing, the hard line. Skeptics love to quote like a load of
Phillip Klass clones ie. "Where's your evidence". Perhaps I may
well have discovered some. I will let the readers be the judge
of that for now.

It has come to light through my own research into the subject of
UFO's & alien abduction and it would appear at first glance that
there may well be a link with "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis"
(Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and the alien abduction scenario. I
have during the course of my work over the last two years been a
friendly ear to an abductee, a thirty-two year old female from
the UK who as well as having a long history of medical problems
has been diagnosed with M.E. (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Even
more interesting is that she is a member of an abductee group
that meets once a month in London. This group has 20 members who
attend regularly. These people are a fair cross section of the
populace that travels from all around the country to the
meetings. They are also from different ethnic and cultural
backgrounds and all have different doctors.

Although I am good friends with the woman mentioned above I also
know other members of this group. About three months ago I was
interested to learn that out of the 20 members of the group
fourteen members of the group have all been medically diagnosed
with "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome).
After doing some cursory investigation work I have confirmed
from B.R.A.M.E. (Blue Ribbon Association Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis, a world-wide network for this illness with
groups in 18 countries) that the ME/CFS Charities Alliance
CONSIDERS that the report's estimate of 500,000 - 1 million
sufferers in the UK (1-2% of the population, ) is a vast
overestimate of the true situation. The data used includes
studies of patients with chronic fatigue, rather than chronic
fatigue syndrome. Out of the total figure about 25% of sufferers
are house-bound.

What is CFS? Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is an emerging
illness characterized by debilitating fatigue (experienced as
exhaustion and extremely poor stamina), neurological problems
and a variety of flu-like symptoms. The illness is also known as
chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS) and outside
of the USA is usually known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).
In the past the syndrome has been known as chronic Epstein-Barr
virus (CEBV). The core symptoms include excessive fatigue,
general pain, mental fogginess and often gastrointestinal
problems. Many other symptoms will also be present however they
will typically be different among different patients. These
include: fatigue following stressful activities, headaches, sore
throat; sleep disorders, abnormal temperature and others. The
degree of severity can differ widely among patients and will
also vary over time for the same patient. Severity can vary
between getting unusually fatigued following stressful events to
being totally bedridden and completely disabled. The symptoms
will tend to wax and wane over time. This variation, in addition
to the fact that the cause of the disease is not yet known,
makes this illness difficult to diagnose.

What causes CFS? The cause of the illness is not yet known.
Current theories are looking at the possibilities of
neuroendocrine dysfunction, viruses, environmental toxins,
genetic predisposition, or a combination of these. For a time it
was thought that Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), the cause of
mononucleosis, might cause CFS but recent research has
discounted this idea. The illness seems to prompt a chronic
immune reaction in the body, however it is not clear that this
is in response to any actual infection -- this may only be a
dysfunction of the immune system itself. A recent concept
promulgated by Prof. Mark Demitrack is that CFS is a generalized
condition which may have any of several causes (in the same way
that the condition called high blood pressure is not caused by
any one single factor). It *is* known that stressors, physical
or emotional, seems to make CFS worse. Some current research
continues to investigate possible viral causes including HHV-6,
other herpes viruses, enteroviruses, and retroviruses.
Additionally, co-factors (such as genetic predisposition,
stress, environment, gender, age, and prior illness) appear to
play an important role in the development and course of the
illness. Many medical observers have noted that CFS seems often
to be "triggered" by some stressful event, but in all likelihood
the condition was latent beforehand. Some people will appear to
get CFS following a viral infection, or a head injury, or
surgery, excessive use of antibiotics, or some other traumatic
event. Yet it's unlikely that these events on their own could be
a primary cause.

Is CFS a "real" disease? At this early point many practicing
clinicians remain unconvinced that CFS is a genuine illness,
although it is slowly increasing in acceptance. The reluctance
is due in part to the facts that no specific cause has yet been
found, there is no observable marker that doctors can use to
specifically identify the illness, and most doctors are not yet
familiar with the peer-reviewed research which does tend to
legitimize this disease.

Emerging illnesses such as CFS typically go through a period of
many years before they are accepted by the medical community,
and during that interim time patients who have these new,
unproven illnesses are all too often dismissed as being
"psychiatric cases". This has been the experience with CFS as
well. But many top-level researchers are showing that this is a
distinct, organic illness. This includes research by Anthony
Komaroff (Harvard), Jay Levy (UCSF), Nancy Klimas (U. Miami),
Andrew Lloyd (U. New South Wales), Stephen Straus (NIH), and
others.

Who gets CFS? Few studies address this question. Several show
that 70 to 80 percent of CFS patients are women, although some
researchers say that these are normal figures for any
immune-related illness. There are a couple of points here. 1.
These figures seem to match up with the male/female ratio of
people who claim to have been abducted; 70 to 80 percent are
female. 2. The 1-2% of the population which may have CFS also
matches the figures postulated by Dr David Jacobs and Bud
Hopkins among others that claim that this figure could be a fare
representation of the population of the planet that are being
abducted.

Are these correlations in the figures just coincidence? Some
studies indicate that CFS, is less common among lower income
people and minorities, but critics point out that the average
CFS patient sees so very many doctors before they can get a
diagnosis that only those with great access to medical care get
counted in such studies, thus giving a bias with regards to
income and race. NEW ENZYME FOUND IN CFS PATIENTS CFIDS ASSOC OF
AMERICA TEMPLE RESEARCHERS DISCOVER NEW HUMAN ENZYME: A Novel
Enzyme Found in CFS Patients May Alter Cellular Processes.

Dr. Robert Suhadolnik and his research team at Temple University
School of Medicine reported today that studies of patients with
chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have led to the identification of
a new human enzyme. Suhadolnik, a professor of biochemistry and
a member of the university's Fels Institute for Cancer Research
and Molecular Biology, says of the new findings: "We are greatly
encouraged by the trend we see. All CFS patients tested have
this new enzyme, while none of the healthy controls do." The new
findings, reported at a research meeting sponsored by the
American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, are based on
preliminary data from a limited number of patients. However,
larger studies are already underway and have attracted financial
support from the National Institutes of Health.

Chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as chronic fatigue and
immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), is a complex illness
characterized by incapacitating fatigue, neurological problems
and a constellation of other debilitating symptoms. The cause of
the illness is unknown and, since no drug has been found to be
effective against CFS, treatment is limited to alleviating the
symptoms. CFS affects at least 500,000 American adults and
children. The newly discovered enzyme may explain common
observations in patients with CFS: an inability to control
common viruses (like Epstein-Barr virus and human herpes virus
and an inability to maintain cellular energy. According to
Suhadolnik, the viral pathway in which this newly discovered
protein is active, known as the RNase L antiviral pathway, may
control both processes. "This new enzyme in CFS may not function
as well as the normal RNase L found in healthy people. It may
explain why CFS patients' bodies have a hard time maintaining
the energy necessary for cellular growth. We are hopeful that
ongoing further studies will lead to a better understanding of
some other processes at work in this puzzling illness."

The new findings add to mounting evidence of subtle, yet
striking, abnormalities found in people with CFS. "Because the
new enzyme has been found in CFS patients but not in healthy
controls, it is potentially the basis for a laboratory test for
CFS, which is diagnosed today only through its clinical
symptoms," says Dr. Antonio Goncalves, associate vice provost
for science and technology at Temple University. The university
has filed a patent application for such a test and is seeking a
corporate partner to further develop and license the test.
Goncalves and Suhadolnik caution, however, that additional
studies of much larger patient populations are required before
the clinical utility of the test can be demonstrated. This study
was funded by the National Institutes of Health and The CFIDS
Association of America, the nation's largest and most active
charitable organization dedicated to conquering CF(ID)S. Further
study required the 14 people who are involved in this group,
diagnosed with M.E., actually represents 70% of the group. As
this 70% figure is extremely high this must warrant further
study to try to examine all possible causes of this anomalous
figure.

If any good is to come from the gathering of this potential data
linking the alien abduction scenario and "Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis" then of course it will be required that my
investigation is meticulous in the way in which I gather the
data. For the analysis of the data I will endeavour to employ
the help of professional people from various backgrounds of the
hallowed halls of academe which are applicable to the illness
and all possible variables. I have made a short list and will be
approaching these people directly. Although I am sure you are
now aware of my stance on the situation, if this hypothesis is
correct then it is imperative that I do the research and back up
what really is at the moment a thought, based on some cursory
information. If the data represents the connection then this
could well be a back door to Pandora's box. Of course the
opposite is also true that the data may reveal something
completely different although the data with regard to the
anomalous substantial increase in the percentage of the
population of earth who have "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis"
(Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) is 1 to 2%.

Against this 70% figure which has surfaced with regard to the
twenty abductees in the group that I have looked at, I feel that
a figure of 10,000 abductees globally would have to submit data
to gauge an accurate study as to whether there is without doubt
a connection between "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" (Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome)and alien abduction.

I am asking for the assistance of abductee support groups, if
you are reading this, to contact myself directly. What this
possible connection is could be a number of things. In the
interest of not jumping to conclusions, it could be that: 1. The
abduction scenario is a direct symptom and brain disorder and
part of the many parts of "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" (Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome) and that all people who are claiming abduction
have this illness, but the symptoms in some abductees are minute
compared to others and that they do not know that they have the
illness. However if that were the case it would open up the
question of why does a large number of sufferers of "Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis" (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) claim to have been
abducted by Aliens such as in the initial test group. That alien
abduction is yet another symptom to this illness, a symptom
which can manifest itself in the human brain as a memory, this
in itself if true, would for me anyway, be quite an astounding
discovery that perhaps "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" (Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome) is a direct result of the alleged alien
implants, which it has been claimed by a large number of
abductees to have been placed inside of their heads, and in some
way be causing the illness because of the implants interruption
by proximity to certain areas of the brain, causing the brain to
send out incorrect signals to the body and the cause-effect of
this is the human body receiving the incorrect information to
function normally causing the multi-faceted symptoms of "Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis" (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). There is even a
hypothesis that these aliens are in some way feeding off the
human life force draining energy from the alleged victim of
these abductions, and the symptoms after these alleged
incidents, do bear a striking resemblance to the symptoms of
"Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome).

Or it could be that the abduction scenario is all in the mind of
the abductee and that "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" (Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome) in the cases where abduction is also being
claimed, is a direct result of the depression being caused by
believing that they are being abducted by aliens. Perhaps the
alleged abductee's body chemistry is being altered and this, as
the discoverer called it, is a Unique Random Enzyme/Protein, and
is a further manipulation of the DNA structure of the human race
to make it more compatible for the long term hybrid program
which may be causing the side effects that manifest themselves
in the symptoms of CFS.

Maybe it is something all together different from the from above
with the data collated after the cursory investigation of the
twenty abductees who are members of the same group. However,
this has shown that in this group at the percentage of people
diagnosed with."Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" (Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome) to be 68% above the national average. It has to
warrant further investigation.

I will be contacting relevant parties who can offer correct
medical and psychological comment on the data when I have
finished collating it. I believe that if the cursory evidence
gathered from this global investigation returns the same high
anomalous figure of or around 70 % this may well lead to the
opening or at least unlocking of Pandora's Box. The objective is
to supply undeniable data, and in the ideal world to force
enlisting the scientific community to investigate this further,
with an over all view to forcing the world governments to
acknowledge that we are being visited by E.B.E.'s and that the
abductions claimed by so many are in a large number of cases
what I personally believe to be true. I am in particular looking
at the new enzyme that is present in the bodies of all people
diagnosed with CFS and in the 1000 people tested who did not
have CFS the enzyme was not present. My research is progressing
slowly into what may well turn out to be a connection with the
identification of a new human enzyme and the alien abduction
scenario. Although I am only speculating at this time, I feel
that there is a distinct possibility that the enzyme will be
present in all abductees and that all abductees actually have
CFS or Fibro and that the symptoms are so minute in some
abductees that they do not realise that they have the illness.
Ultimately the end process would be to obtain testing of a group
of abductees who do not believe that they have CFS or Fibro, to
see if the enzyme is also present in the abductees which I
believe it may be as I feel that abductees body chemistry is
being altered and this, as the discoverer called it, a Unique
Random Enzyme / Protein, is a further manipulation of the DNA
structure of the human race to make it more compatible for the
long term hybrid program which may be causing the side effects
that manifest themselves in the symptoms of CFS.

Until the hard data has been collected and analyzed I can only
present this as a circumstantial case to Dr. Robert Suhadolnik
and his research team and others in the research field, as you
and I both know what a sticky wicket we are batting off to start
with in the research field of alien abduction.

I have kindly been given web space by Marilyn Ruben who runs the
AAER Abductions website, for a survey of abductees to gauge some
global figures on the number of people with CFS who also claim
alien abduction.

The URL is: http://www.abduct.com/aaer/_aaer.htm

I hope that upwards of 10,000 abductees will take the CFS survey
on the site during the next twelve months. We may see that the
huge increase in the percentage of abductees that have CFS is a
global pattern and returns the same high anomalous figure that
it has with my initial investigation, circa 68% above the global
national average per capita of 1-2% of the populous. "That I may
be right". Hold that thought.

Comments and assistance welcome

Max Burns