Science Friday featured XMRV in its "Year in Review: Top Science Stories of 2011." We also recommend the Wired article "How a Collapsing Scientific Hypothesis Ended in an Arrest." Lawsuits. Jail. Death threats. The self-correcting mechanisms of science have rarely been so dramatic. See our December 23 post, "2009 XMRV Paper Fully Retracted," where we now note the authors of the only other study supporting a CFS-XMRV connection have also retracted their paper.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: XMRV Debacle Makes List of Top Science Stories of 2011
Science Friday featured XMRV in its "Year in Review: Top Science Stories of 2011." We also recommend the Wired article "How a Collapsing Scientific Hypothesis Ended in an Arrest." Lawsuits. Jail. Death threats. The self-correcting mechanisms of science have rarely been so dramatic. See our December 23 post, "2009 XMRV Paper Fully Retracted," where we now note the authors of the only other study supporting a CFS-XMRV connection have also retracted their paper.
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