Wow, Eucalypta - tell us what you really think

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I see it as a group of people, lead by Dr. Mikovits obviously, who got over-attached to their finding...I believe they believed they had found the answer. I was told about halfway through the process, from someone who had worked with Dr. Mikovits in the past, that she had a tendency to decide what to believe in... that obviously happened with XMRV - they didn't start really checking for contamination until after someone else found it.
That initial finding, though, spawned 100's of papers in a subject that was getting little research, and it landed in one of the top journals in the world - so it was a very good initial finding. it was a good paper and, I think to most peoples surprise, it didn't work out...Its easy to see how one could get caught up in it...that's my interpretation of what happened.