Others have radically improved. One of Sriram's patients, a young Tullahoma man, was confined to a wheelchair and couldn't dial a phone. Now, he can walk, go hunting, and drive a car. As news of his research has spread, Sriram has received national attention and hopeful calls from MS patients around the world. Some in the medical community, however, have greeted his work with intense suspicion.
Some scientists are necessarily wary about drawing conclusions from a few success stories.
After all, if Sriram's hypothesis is proven true, it could shatter bedrock assumptions about what kind of disease multiple sclerosis is. She says some scientists might hope Sriram is wrong, so they can be the ones to find a cure instead. With a modest smile, Sriram doesn't explicitly assign ulterior motives to his many doubting peers. But he's unusually frank about where they stand. But in their heart of hearts they think I'm wrong.