Study linking virus to chronic fatigue syndrome retracted amid controversy

A two-year scientific controversy all but ended Thursday when the prestigious journal Science retracted a study linking a strange virus to chronic fatigue syndrome, a sometimes-debilitating disorder with no known cause.

The journal's editors "lost confidence" in the study after at least a dozen attempts to replicate the finding failed, wrote editor-in-chief Bruce Alberts in a retraction notice to be published Friday.

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Rosalind S. Helderman 23 Dec, 2011


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