The Breakthrough Findings on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

In the weeks leading up to George Floyd's murder, a culture war about the pandemic was brewing. However, in 2006, at a yacht club in California, a chance encounter between bartender Judy Mikeovitz and a customer sparked a chain of events that led to breakthrough findings on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Working with wealthy couple Annette and Harvey Whitimore, whose daughter suffered from CFS, Judy discovered the presence of XMRV, a little-known mouse virus, in the blood samples of CFS patients. The research, published in Science, initially brought hope for a possible link between the virus and CFS, offering potential treatments. However, subsequent attempts to replicate the findings failed, leading to skepticism and the retraction of the paper.