Multiple Sclerosis Cure?

>A team of maverick scientists

That's what I hate about science-journalism - this constant need to portray science as a field so different from other fields to work in, where supposedly egos rule and the status quo is upheld, and only a few select "mavericks"/"outlaws"/"geniuses" "dare" to break the cycle. It's untrue and keeps a lot of non-scientists in the dark on how scientists actually are like, and how "normal" science is.

In reality, there's plenty of evidence that infections trigger MS, a lot of it has even made it into Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis#Infections

There's also at least one study that couldn't find any support for Zambioni's ideas: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/massi...

According to the Wikipedia-article on his theory, there's research going on but most of it doesn't look promising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_cerebrospinal_venous_i...