Solve ME/CFS Webinar with Avindra Nath, M.D.  published on Apr 21, 2016

Onward through the fog blog post, by Erica Verillo, 21 April 2016: Reductio ad Absurdum: A Webinar with Dr. Avi Nath  [In rhetoric, the device known as reductio ad
absurdum is employed to avoid addressing an opponent’s argument.

By reducing an argument to absurd proportions,  not only is a pall cast over the opponent’s point,  the discussion effectively comes to a halt. Dr. Nath has demonstrated this  technique on prior occasions.]

Dr Nath:

Dr. Avindra Nath received his medical degree from Christian Medical College in India in 1981. He completed a residency in Neurology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, followed by a fellowship in Multiple Sclerosis and Neurovirology at the same institution. He then obtained a fellowship in Neuro-AIDS at the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS). He held faculty positions at the University of Manitoba (1990-97) and the University of Kentucky (1997-2002). In 2002, he joined Johns Hopkins University as Professor of Neurology and Director of the Division of Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections.

He joined NIH in 2011 as the Clinical Director of NINDS, the Director of the Translational Neuroscience Center and Chief of the Section of Infections of the Nervous System. His research focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of retroviral infections of the nervous system and the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for these diseases. He is the Principal Investigator on NIH’s new intramural study on ME/CFS.

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