He doesn't want it stopped and left dead he just feels it is a waste of money at this point. Most scientist have this view at this point from the overwhelming negative and contamination studies. If I did not have CFS and looked at the data I would probably think the same thing.
But there have not been any 'overwhelming' XMRV contamination studies, only lots of negative studies.
Actually, as far as I can think of, there are
no relevent contamination studies,
apart from that which found XMRV in the prostate cancer cell line, which obviously raises questions about contamination.
But this, and everything else that Coffin talked about, does not disprove Judy's study.
As Judy's research has not been disproven, and she continues to develop new interesting research, one can't help wonder why Coffin wants to end XMRV research.
One can't help wondering if it is for reasons other than scientific curiosity.
Coffin said that it might turn out that there is another, different, retrovirus involved with CFS, apart from XMRV.
But why would he want to look for another retrovirus when there is already a retrovirus under his nose?
It seems premature to dismiss XMRV, based purely on the studies that suggest that XMRV is a recombination of two endogenous mouse retroviruses, and that this might have happened in a cell line, and that prostate cancer cell lines contain XMRV.
These are interesting lines of research, but they do not prove that XMRV does not exist in humans.
Why so keen to avoid further research on the new virus?
He didn't explain this, and it just seems premature.