From The Scientist of today:
“Another study fails to find XMRV in chronic fatigue patients
The latest in a string of studies searching for a mouse virus in patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome has failed to turn up evidence of the pathogen, XMRV. The study, which was published online last week in the Journal of Virology, couldn’t detect XMRV in 100 people with chronic fatigue syndrome, including 14 of the patients who tested positive in the 2009 Science study that originally posited a link between the virus and the syndrome. University of Utah in Salt Lake City virologist Ila Singh, who led the new study, suggests (as have others) that the XMRV previously found in chronic fatigue patients was a result of contamination in the lab. But Judy Mikovits, senior author of that 2009 Science paper and virologist at the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, is standing by her findings. “We have complete confidence in every bit of the results in the Science paper,” she told ScienceInsider.”
Well, she would say that, wouldn’t she? And who would blame her…but time to start looking somewhere else, folks!
ViroBlogy 
9 May, 2011 at 20:54 |
It really is not time to start looking elsewhere as non of the negative papers have used validated methods. Mikovits is likely correct, and I base this on the data presented, not personal emotions or denial of science.
12 May, 2011 at 20:51 |
Huh? “Mikovits is likely correct?” On what do you you base this, given that the weight of evidence-based research is trending the other way?
10 May, 2011 at 12:52 |
Yah, it’s a crock.