XMRV: How’s the PR this time?

Discuss this article on the forums Written by usedtobeperkytina I just wanted to give my review of the PR with the latest events. First we had the rumor of a pulled press release from CDC. Seems what was pulled was the study. If there was a press release with it, it was not just temporarily pulled but permanently pulled. So,

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Read the Fine Print

Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Written by Kelvin Lord With my nose completely shut due to allergies, out of desperation the other day I took an OTC antihistamine. It was Italian day at lunch and I had grown weary of not tasting any of my food, so ignoring the instruction panel I ripped open the

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The CDC XMRV Study: How Not to Find XMRV?

Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums After a turbulent couple of weeks in which both the negative CDC paper and positive Alter paper were reportedly about to be published and then, at the behest of public health officials at the DHHS, both were withdrawn, the CDC paper was published in the Journal Retrovirology. As was rumored

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