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The American Tinnitus Association’s Roadmap to a Cure is Logically and Scientifically Flawed…let’s help!

If you visit http://www.ata.org/research/re…oadmap.php, you’ll find a roadmap to a cure for tinnitus.

The roadmap is logically and scientifically flawed, and may even lead research astray. Can you see what I mean? Check it out. Do you see how there underlying assumptions in the roadmap that may or may not be true, which therefore lead to potentially false conclusions?

I’ll post more on this later, and I am curious about your feedback. Can anyone else see the logical inconsistencies in the ATA’s roadmap? How can we help the ATA?

July 10th, 2009 update: Check out this graphic to see the current CureTinnitus.org Review of the ATA’s Roadmap to a Cure:

CureTinnitus.org Comments on the ATA's Roadmap to a Cure for Tinnitus

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One Response to “The American Tinnitus Association’s Roadmap to a Cure is Logically and Scientifically Flawed…let’s help!”

  1. admin says:

    Here’s more.

    The ATA mentions A) Where tinnitus starts and B) How Tinnitus starts, but then they talk about C) suppressing symptoms. I mean, what about

    Why tinnitus starts.
    Whom tinnitus affects and are there patterns?
    What tinnitus is.
    When tinnitus starts and are there patterns?

    and what about:
    What do we know for a fact helps people lower the volume of the ringing in their ears?

    This is a quote from the ATA’s website:

    “When is the Roadmap going to make a difference in the lives of tinnitus patients?

    It could happen anytime. Somebody might be developing a drug right now that will work. Many of us feel very optimistic that we will see a major breakthrough within the next five years.”

    What if helping tinnitus and the “right drug” have nothing to do with each other? What if tinnitus is more like breaking a leg than having a disease that is properly treated with medication? Is “looking for” the “right drug” for broken legs a sound approach?

    I really hope we can help increase awareness about these kinds of logical discrepancies, so that tinnitus research money can go further for us all.

    Best wishes!
    Dainis

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