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[My emphasis]Countries tend to respect their own researchers more. The UK's approach to ME/CFS is particularly dominated by biopsychosocialists who believe XMRV isn't relevant according to their own research (nor important even if it is found by other researchers and would only encourage abnormal illness beliefs such as "viral attribution"), and the media coverage was suspiciously quiet, with the SMC downplaying the MLV/CFS study in their "press release".
PS do you mean biopsychosocialists, or (bio) Psycho Socialists?
Hey, if they can shorten ME/CFS to chronic fatigue, I'm all for shortening their biopsychosocialist to psycho socialist.
ETA:
Envisioning a trio of psycho socialists in classic 3 monkeys pose chanting, "There is no train. There is no train."
Do you think the SMC brigade have gone to the XMRV Conference? There was a remarkable lack of negative comment from them on the latest virus research findings in children with ME (from Dundee scientists) today. The BBC reported it all over in detail and there was only positive coverage - wow!