I’ve got your missing links right here – 25th December 2010

Published December 25, 2010
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(Merry Christmas everyone)

Last year, US scientists suggested that the mouse virus XMRV could cause chronic fatigue syndrome, and ever since, labs have largely failed at replicating the results. Now, four new papers by independent international labs all come to the same conclusion: XMRV doesn’t cause CFS.

The real 12 stages of a lunar eclipse – a scoop by John Rennie. Number 6 is “Intrusion of strange dimensions” and number 8 is “Cthulhu”.

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