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I am not saying whether McClure’s study has been gamed or not but in my books some things she is quoted as saying in the media destroy her credibility.
She made a big deal out of emphasizing that the laboratory their samples were tested in have never housed any of the murine leukemia viruses and that they were certain their samples were not contaminated.
She had no reason to defend her study results for contamination because they found nothing. The only possible reason for her to say this was to imply that the WPI study was a result of contamination.
She must know that if this were the case then the approx. 200 healthy controls WPI tested would have has similar numbers of positive results to the 100 CFS/ME patients but instead the results were markedly different. 67% versus 3.7% of controls positive for XMRV. Just as well they did a lot of controls because this bolsters their results. I watched a video of presentations at the CFSAC conference where retrovirologist of 40 years Dr John Coffin said the possibility that these results were caused by contamination were very very remote.
Why does Dr McClure make deliberately misleading statements, which are completely unnecessary. She doesn’t even need to mention contamination as she found nothing. No matter what she says she was implying that the WPI study was contaminated and she must know its unlikely.
I don't know which study is right but I don't trust McClure or Wesselly. Why did they need to do a study before everyone else then make misleading statements. Its usually impossible to get funding for any research for ME but they got their funding really quick and made sure they got the jump on any further studies to come. I am suspicious.