Reminds me of the MD Anderson episode from a few years back.
The kindest explanation is professional jealousy. Much worse explanations come to mind as well.
One would expect the cancer community to have at least some encouragements when a clinical trial has a chance to be an effective and safe approach for cancer patients facing a terminal illness. And if the final data is bad, so be it, but at least the science moves along. We even find some sniping from an 'expert' who won't be named (really?). And again, from folks who not only did not take part in the trial, but have competing research.
Linda Liau, the lead author, is not even mentioned, nor is UCLA... and what a weird thing to state the article was not peer reviewed.
And the selection was very well explained in Dr. Bosch presentation; the intent presented by Dr. Castellino is quite a spin. Oh well.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Best of luck to Patients, NWBO, and Longs.