Weiss is a loose cannon, imo. Here is his response to the Lo/Alter paper, issued by the UK Science Media Centre (SMC), an indepedent organisation that appears to have no controlling body.
http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/press_releases/10-08-23_cfs_virus_pnas.htm
We all could drive a London bus through every one of these sentences but, sadly, the UK media (which the SMC briefs) can not.
And one particular sentence (below) could be read as a (not so) veiled warning to the UK media not to 'touch this one with a barge pole, lads'. What relevance at all does this have to a press release about XMRV unless it is simply to make such a point?
I would also ask why Judy has 500 isolates and no funds to sequence them. Was this not to be completed using the $1.6m grant from the NIH? Did this get pulled because the co-recipient, Dr Jonathon Kerr, was co-author of the second failed UK study and subsequently decided to withdraw from ME research?
If so, the UK scientists (yet again) have got a lot to answer for.