"Some scientists are even deliberately setting up experiments designed to fail to find XMRV"

By AMY DOCKSER MARCUS, The Wall Street Journal, MARCH 12, 2011:
Write to Amy Dockser Marcus at amy.marcus@wsj.com

Eager to find treatments and suspicious that their condition is not being taken seriously, patients have accused some of the scientists of taking too long to get answers. Patients say some scientists are even deliberately setting up experiments designed to fail to find XMRV.

After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study in July that didn't find XMRV in either patients or healthy people, patient advocate Mindy Kitei wrote on her blog that CDC didn't want to find XMRV.

"If the CDC had found the retrovirus," she wrote, "it would have negated its 20-year affair with chronic fatigue syndrome as a psychological problem."

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