Journal Retracts Study Linking A Virus To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

BBC News:

A study linking a virus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as ME, has been withdrawn by the journal which published it. The 2009 study, in Science, suggested a mouse virus, XMRV, was linked to the illness. But in September this year, the study's authors withdrew some of their findings, saying they were based on "contaminated data".

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Comments

[onionboy]

03:47 PM on 12/22/2011

This was a bit suspect since it came out.

[No death panels]

11:24 PM on 12/22/2011

Yeppers.

[onionboy]

01:22 AM on 12/23/2011

I'm all for NEW discoveries, but there were multiple institutions that had already found essentially the opposite.

Kudos to their integrity for doing the extra look and pulling back. Many academics wouldn't swallow their pride long enough to do that.

[Herecomedajudge]

02:54 PM on 12/22/2011

Huh, and I thought it was just too much sex.