The Nature of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research

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An HHV-6 University Editorial

We seem to have reached "The Age of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome AIDS Denialism." It is a period in which there are basically two kinds of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome research.

 1. Research that shows an obvious connection between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS but refuses to admit it in the research's concluding statement.

 2. Loopy and disingenuous research that obfuscates and focuses on genetics, subsets, the kitchen sink, and anything that will distract from the obvious evidence that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is contagious and joined to HHV-6/AIDS at the hip.

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