The controversy with MAP is, that journals are picking what they want to write.
All the journals on biology, veterinary journals and other journals will give voice to people against and for MAP evidence. Overall, these journals have been pretty neutral. So have the veterinarians and biologists, incredibly props to them and to some GI with an open mind.
But all the journals linked to GI involvement like ECCO and stuff will not be neutral, they will post ALL the stuff that is against MAP. Doesn't matter how stupid it is.
So some veterinarian and biologist will post information that could help unravel the controversy, and help people who have a disease where some die from, a serious disease.
But then some other people will come and post some troll articles and give these people a platform, like V Kruiningen with his Weapons of Mass destruction, great respectful title, and all GI will clammer onto this and of course, the no-ethics big pharma journal will pick it up and the GI editors of those journals can bathe in some more bribes from big pharma.
And another person will post something about MAP and the cycle continues, no one respecting the patients who suffer.
The right thing to do is to say "we don't know", but that's not done, the GI are making up the opinion for their patients even though this controversy is far from solved and this should be looked at with an open mind, giving a platform to evidence against and for this theory, because as long as the controversy is not solved, people are suffering.
MAP has been linked to both crohn's disease AND diabetes now, diseases with millions of sufferers worldwide, any journal or paper or GI that can not be respectful or neutral should no longer be allowed to carry their title or have the right to continue publishing articles.
If it's not MAP then it's not MAP, but so far tests are very inconclusive, false negatives become positives, methods to test are bad, and the tests are inconclusive partly because of the controversy, if this issue was widely known to the general public that this is a potential zoonotic pathogen, everyone would have pulled on the alarm bell by now, but as long as it's not known, governments can keep pretending, many GI can keep pretending, big pharma can keep pretending, and people with crohn's disease who will not have a favorable view of GI at all if it is MAP, will keep suffering.
Maybe if some GI had the disease and knew how much people suffered, they would think differently about bickering back and forth and making a controversy out of something that should not be a controversy but a genuine attempt to resolve something that could potentially help people.