Comments on: New study finds no proof that a virus is the cause of ME http://medicalnewsonline.net/latest-health-news/new-study-finds-no-proof-that-a-virus-is-the-cause-of-me/ Latest News About Medicine Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:22:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hip http://medicalnewsonline.net/latest-health-news/new-study-finds-no-proof-that-a-virus-is-the-cause-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Hip Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:02:59 +0000 http://medicalnewsonline.net/?p=958#comment-149 One of the co-authors of this study, Simon Wessely, has a vested interest in the outcome of such virus studies. Simon has staked his entire academic career on the laughable idea that neurological diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome are caused by purely psychological factors. Therefore Simon Wessely would be the last person you would want in a study like this: if he finds the virus in CFS patients, he shoots himself in the foot, and his career may never recover. So I wonder just how hard he looked for this XMRV virus. The odd thing is, the authors declared in this study that they have no competing interests: not true! It is very much in the interest of Simon Wessely to not find this XMRV virus. One of the co-authors of this study, Simon Wessely, has a vested interest in the outcome of such virus studies. Simon has staked his entire academic career on the laughable idea that neurological diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome are caused by purely psychological factors.

Therefore Simon Wessely would be the last person you would want in a study like this: if he finds the virus in CFS patients, he shoots himself in the foot, and his career may never recover. So I wonder just how hard he looked for this XMRV virus.

The odd thing is, the authors declared in this study that they have no competing interests: not true! It is very much in the interest of Simon Wessely to not find this XMRV virus.

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