Last month, the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease (WPI) filed a law suit against its former research director, Judy Mikovits, who led the widely discredited research identifying a link between a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), for allegedly taking lab notebooks and documents from her computer that legally belonged to the institute. The first round of the case was heard yesterday by a Nevada court, and the judge ruled clearly in favor of WPI, upholding the institute’s claims and rejecting Mikovits’s replies. "It is so surprising," WPI attorney Ann Hall told ScienceInsider. It’s more common for a judge to provide a “point-by-point ruling on the merit of a defendant's answers to a compliant; striking the entire reply is quite unusual—an action the judge himself admitted he had never before taken in his 22 years on the bench.
Mikovits is also facing related criminal charges for possessing stolen ...
