I just read about plans to make a documentary about the plight of ME sufferers. Looks interesting - check out the teaser trailer on the site: http://www.whataboutme.biz/index.html

From the site: "We hope to spread the word through this website which will have videos and podcasts on ME, short virals on the ME situation delivered multi-platform, a TV documentary aimed at a prime-time audience, a worldwide theatrical release and a docu-drama dramatizing an ME sufferer’s struggle, based on the n...
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If XMRV does not, in fact, play a role in ME then the sooner we can establish this the better; to blindly cling to XMRV as a cause would divert attention and resources away from other avenues of enquiry.

But my concern is that the latest studies suggesting that there's not a link (and subsequent discussion/media coverage) don't address a number of points raised by the WPI:

I've taken some of the key points listed on the WPI website http://www.wpinstitute.org/news/news_current.html
 

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The recent UK studies that have recently cast doubt on the link between XMRV and ME are disappointing to say the least. I read a short piece in the BMJ that discussed these studies. The article did seem to me to take delight (maybe that's too strong a word) in the fact that the US results are looking questionable. Today I found an interesting post http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/Wesselys_Way.htm which lists some quotes over the years from psychiatrist Professor Simon Wessely who co-authored the ...
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