Why was it definitely concluded this is the wrong direction?
So, buried somewhere in one of the Abbie Smith blog posts is this: Human blood serum NEUTRALIZES XMRV, it just does NOT infect humans.
Also, I believe it was Silverman (don't hold me to that) that SENT XMRV to Mikovitz for her research. Well, the XMRV already had a mutation. So when Silverman went to replicate her work he found there was a mutation that should not have been there. The virus ALREADY HAD A MUTATION and that was this EXACT mutation the XMRV Mikovitz had in the XMRV sent to her. So, I think that was why Silverman retracted his name from the paper as the paper had not been retracted yet. If they had just found XMRV in blood samples from every patient, why did they all have the EXACT mutation that were in the samples sent to her.
Now, I believe Mikovitz denies ever getting samples from someone else.
Silverman denies contamination and so does Mikovitz. Which can only mean one thing, tampering. As one commenter on one of the blog posts said, it is like "salting" an excavation site. If you are ecavating burial grounds and you really want that grant to further your work, you place bones there. It is also like a woman who had dogs that would always find bone fragments during forensic searches. She had bone fragments for training and would plant them for her dogs to find. She and her dogs were HEROES! And then they figured out what was going on and also the dogs were being kept in her home in despicable inhumane conditions and they had to be taken from her.
Also, Mikovitz was really interested in Autism research and tying XMRV into that and so she had another motive and COI.