Kings College Hospital authors respond to criticisms of the type of ME/CFS patients selected for XMRV testing at Imperial College:

…”Overall, we wish to emphasis, and to do so emphatically, that our patients are typical of CFS patients seen in specialist care elsewhere. We specifically refute the suggestion that our patients are in some way more “psychiatric”, whatever that means, than those with “real CFS”, an assertion that has been repeatedly made in other venues“… To read the full response in the online journal PLoS One by Professor Simon Wessely, Professor David Collier and Dr Anthony Cleare, please click here.